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What's a typical sales compensation for professional services firms?

We are looking at hiring our first sales person (who is not one of the partners) so that we (the partners) can focus on building the business instead of Lead Generation/Qualification. The question ...
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Looking to get involved with a startup, but no idea on what kind of salary/equity I should expect

I'm considering joining a startup that has raised a few million in Series A funding and I'd be the second developer joining the team. I've been out of college for 4 years and am looking for a senior ...
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What is the appropriate equity % for software bootstrap key employees?

I have been working with a start up without pay for the last 8 months. I have been a senior sales executive with tier one companies for the past 20 years. My position is to build and manage all ...
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Expanding development team for a startup

I'm a software developer and co-founder of a start up that's in a sprint to launch a web app the next 2 months. We have about 3 months of burn time we have before we need to get some funding. By ...
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What is an appropriate stock option grant for a senior engineer after the Series A?

I'm looking for suggestions as I'm considering an offer from a startup. A friend of mine is founding a software startup together with two partners and he's looking for engineers. The idea is ...
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20% equity and CTO. (Story and details). Is this fair?

This is a long exposition. Please bear with me, I think that I need to provide as much specifics as possible, while keeping it as short as possible. Thanks for reading, any feedback is much ...
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What is fair equity for a lead or senior level position pre-series A?

I have been consulting with a small biotech firm that has a couple of VERY good engineer founders and no employees. They do know their field very well. They have been around for a year basically ...
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How much equity for co-founder reducing role for academic program?

I'm a technical co-founder in a pre-funding company in a niche tech segment, working with two non-technical co-founders who have largely overlapping skill sets. I met them at a networking event and ...