August 27, 2009
A Wealth of Woman-Founded Startups, from a Twitter Shout-out
I haven't been a heavy user of the Twitter shout-out before, but I had such great response and feedback yesterday that I wanted to share. Before chatting with a reporter this morning about woman-founded startups, I thought it would be worthwhile to ask the Twitter community if there were any such companies that they thought were interesting. The responses (and generous retweets!) were terrific, ...
August 10, 2009
Quick & Dirty How-To: Employee Stock Option Allocations
A great question came up recently in discussion with one of First Round's CEOs: how much equity should I allocate for hiring my next round of employees? For a company that has raised a first institutional round of capital, this question is important not only when making competitive job offers, but also when calculating what size option pool the company will need before raising the next round of ...
