Compensation Questions


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Joining a startup

Possible Duplicate: Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly? Apologies for the lack of brevity, but I wanted to give you a full picture of the situation. Appreciate...

asked Nov 18 '12 at 21:45
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Aj Yusuf
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We are bootstrapping our startup, Is this a fair compensation offer?

Possible Duplicate: Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly? We have a team made up of four co-founders. Our equity split is: Co-founder #1 40% Co-founder #2...

asked Oct 20 '12 at 07:41
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Derek
164 points

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7 Answers
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Potential offer as first employee at startup, worth it?

I am a software engineer with about 2 years experience and currently at a big tech company. I have an offer to join a startup that has just received seed funding of 250k and they're about 6 months...

asked Oct 4 '12 at 18:06
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Rob
31 points

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4 Answers
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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...

asked Sep 28 '12 at 03:58
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Acjohnson55
181 points

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5 Answers
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Working as early employee but not get paid

I got hired as an early employee (employee #4) and considered as key engineer of the company. As compensation, I got some stock option grant (1%), and well below market salary (about 30% of what I...

asked Sep 17 '12 at 00:45
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T. W.
11 points

2 Votes
1 Answers
2.41K Views
How should early employees be compensated if founders have left and the company has pivoted?

I realize that Joel Spoelsky has written an extensive summary of how equity should be allocated (namely, fairly), but I was wondering how things might differ in slightly different...

asked Aug 1 '12 at 06:15
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Nt3 Rp
115 points

4 Votes
2 Answers
2.79K Views
Is this a fair CEO offer for an experienced CFO/COO

My question/story is this: two years ago I broke ground on a startup. We planned and planned, raised some funds and broke ground writing code. Two years later we put $250k into the business, have...

asked Aug 2 '12 at 15:39
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Webwrks
131 points

2 Votes
4 Answers
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What non-monetary rewards can I give to an outstanding remote worker?

I have a remote worker (He lives in South Africa, we are in Israel) in my team of 3, and I want to reward him for his awesome work. There is not enough budget to compensate him more but I still...

asked Jun 19 '12 at 03:39
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Mikle
113 points

1 Votes
2 Answers
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Reasonable compensation for building a product prototype

I'm negotiating a job to build a prototype for some people. They will show that prototype to investors and can potentially get funded. Do people usually get compensated for this? If so, what...

asked May 28 '12 at 16:13
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Russell
180 points

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Partner leaving - Compensation

We are 2 partners of a shop. From next year we will no longer remain partners as I will be starting another business. My partner would continue to operate the shop. What are the most common...

asked May 11 '12 at 16:18
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Goths
116 points

6 Votes
5 Answers
2.43K Views
Founder is responsible for sales and wants incentives in addition to our equal compensation

My partner is the founder and I am the co-founder of our company. He has a sales background and I have operations. We agreed for him to have more equity (50/30) as the company/products were his...

asked May 13 '12 at 04:45
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Alex
31 points

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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...

asked Mar 27 '12 at 05:49
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Jd Blue Audi S4
6 points

1 Votes
1 Answers
2.94K Views
Compensation model for a joint venture

We're looking to enter a joint venture with another entity in order to collaborate on a large IT based project. The agreement is that the other entity will provide most of the human resources,...

asked Mar 17 '12 at 00:56
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James
6 points

1 Votes
1 Answers
2.41K Views
Commission or Compensation for a Regional Outside Salesman for a Product-Based Business?

My Company & Personal Background I have never hired/managed a sales person, but I would like to hire my first. From when I founded the company 3 years ago up until now, I've only received...

asked Feb 13 '12 at 08:09
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Clint
695 points

2 Votes
2 Answers
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Fair commission for sales agent

My start-up is going to provide B2B custom software development services on a project by project basis. I have been talking to a prospective sales agent, who would take over the following...

asked Feb 2 '12 at 21:31
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Phil
13 points

1 Votes
3 Answers
3.04K Views
What equity should I claim as a founder CEO?

Some people I know came up with a idea of a startup. They will provide also the seed investment (50k) and contacts for future investment rounds. I will be in charge of the start up of the company...

asked Jan 26 '12 at 04:28
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Thomas
6 points

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Where can i find comparable Sales Compensation data?

So I'm looking for some personal experiences on compensation for sales representatives from start-ups and/or established corporations. I've looked at many of the salary information websites but I'm...

asked Jan 2 '12 at 14:36
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David Mokon Bond
234 points

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pure equity compesation

I hired a full time person with equity-only compensation. The higher-than-usual rate reflects that. However the contract was not professionally written as it only mentions the equity part. Can that...

asked Jan 4 '12 at 09:15
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Sam
6 points

5 Votes
1 Answers
2.09K Views
Estimating Sales Compensation

I've been operating under the assumption that I want to set the commission rate for my commission only sales reps based on: (# of sales) * (average deal value) * (r) = compensation or r = c/(N*V)....

asked Dec 9 '11 at 18:21
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Umassthrower
458 points

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Vesting Schedule for an initial "100% CTO"

Classic case startup, 1 biz-dev + 1 techie. The 1 techie gets to be the lone warrior to build the entire contraption. The gut rule seems 50-50, but there are complications with that. What's a...

asked Dec 15 '11 at 12:57
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Ina
121 points