Alberto Saavedra's Profile

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  • Overlake Hospital Medical Center on 2009-08-15
  • FriendFeed on 2009-08-13
  • Startup Equity For Employees on 2009-08-11
    • understand the terms of your option grant, especially the strike price.
    • companies would sometimes set up a loan to the employee to cover the amount of
      the stock they were purchasing
  • Startups in 13 Sentences on 2009-08-11
    • it's better to make a few people really happy than to make a lot of people
      semi-happy
    • In a startup you can change your idea easily, but changing your cofounders is
      hard
    • 8 more annotations...
  • Startup Equity Distribution on 2009-08-11
    • having the complex discussion about who is worth what, what value they bring,
      and what role people will be playing is a key to success in the early stage of a
      venture
    • co-founders and determine what key milestones need to be reached in order to add
      significant value to the company
    • 2 more annotations...
  • Startup Stock Options: Vesting Schedules & Acceleration on 2009-08-11
    • The real message above is that you want to maximize the value of your
      equity, not maximize your equity
    • Triggers either reward employees for an acquisition, or protect them in the
      event of an acquisition.
  • Reward Performance with Vesting on 2009-08-11
    • The value of a startup is more in its potential than in its reality
    • a core group of people that works on the problem for a long time
    • 2 more annotations...
  • Startup Fundraising 101 | VentureBeat on 2009-08-11
    • “A” talent attracts “A” people for your company
    • the equity split might be different among founders due to differences in
      experience, when each person joined full-time and significant IP creation
    • 1 more annotations...
  • Founder Skills and Dynamics on 2009-08-10
    • While the right brain may come up with The Idea, the left brain
      executes it.
    • if you don’t have sufficient $ to pay full compensation, being able to structure
      creative payment terms (e.g. equity, etc.) is key.
    • 2 more annotations...
  • Important Questions Startup Co-Founders Should Ask Each Other on 2009-08-10
    • You can have voting and non-voting shares.  You can setup a board.
       You’ll need to decide what kinds of decisions get made by the board, and
      which ones don’t.
    • The company should have a mechanism for gracefully terminating the operating
      role of a co-founder if that’s the right thing to do
    • 2 more annotations...

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