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Accelerated vesting
Unlocking Your Golden Handcuffs: How Common is Accelerated Vesting on Change of Control?
Appearances
7/8/13: Mass Challenge Incubator (Boston, MA)
Board of Directors
“Founders’ Dilemmas” Course: Founder-CEO Succession Cases
Board problems: Even numbers? Multiple founders?
“Do I Have an Effective Board of Directors? (How Can I Tell??)”
Building a Board: Composition by Company Stage
Building a Board: The Impact of Company Stage
Building a Board: Mentorship? Monitoring?
Careers
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Startup Life
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Kauffman Sketchbook
When to Found
Introductory Case
Harvard Business Online: “Don’t Wait Too Long to Become an Entrepreneur”
Co-Founders
The Quick Handshake: A Valuation Penalty?
Salary Inequality Among Co-Founders: How Common?
“Founders’ Dilemmas” Course: “Building the (Founding) Team” Case Studies
Introductory Case
The Idea Premium: How Much (Equity) is Your Idea Worth?
A Second Look at “Idea People” as CEOs: Should vs. Do
Idea People and Their Initial Roles Within Founding Teams
Board problems: Even numbers? Multiple founders?
Neverland, or Dictatorship?
Founding with Friends, Founding with Strangers?
Compensation
Access Free Compensation Data for Participating in the 13th Annual CompStudy Survey - Deadline: June 30, 2020
4 Top Myths About Start-up Pay
Salary Inequality Among Co-Founders: How Common?
CompStudy Highlights: “Live Tweets” from the Webcast
Just Launched: 10th Anniversary Compensation Survey
The Gender Gap in Startups, Part 2: Compensation
The Gender Gap in Startups, Part 1: Women in IT and Life Sciences Ventures
This Friday: Entrepreneurial Compensation Webcasts
Looking for Private-Venture Compensation Data? (2008 Version)
Next Tuesday: Start-up Compensation Webcast
Looking for Solid Compensation Data (2007 version)?
New Items on Entrepreneurial Compensation
Golden Handcuffs and Vesting: Initial Interpretations
Golden Handcuffs: Summary of Vesting Data
Golden Handcuffs and Vesting: Early Analyses
Update: 2006 Entrepreneurship and Compensation Survey
Looking for Solid Compensation Data?
Founder Discounts in “Working Knowledge”
“Founder Discount” Paper: Coming to an AMJ Near You
3 Tidbits from the “Emerging Ventures” Conference
Executive Compensation and the Founder Discount
Equity Issues
Is Dead Equity Crippling Your Company?
Fear vs. Greed at Facebook
The Gender Gap in Startups, Part 2: Compensation
Unlocking Your Golden Handcuffs: How Common is Accelerated Vesting on Change of Control?
Equity-Split Results, Part 2: Implications for Team Stability
Equity-Split Results, Part 1: When Do Teams Split Equally?
Golden Handcuffs and Vesting: Initial Interpretations
Golden Handcuffs: Summary of Vesting Data
Golden Handcuffs and Vesting: Early Analyses
Equity Split
Is Dead Equity Crippling Your Company?
Fear vs. Greed at Facebook
The Quick Handshake: A Valuation Penalty?
“Founders’ Dilemmas” Course: “Building the (Founding) Team” Case Studies
New: “A Note on the Legal and Tax Implications of Founders’ Equity Splits”
The Idea Premium: How Much (Equity) is Your Idea Worth?
Equity-Split Results, Part 2: Implications for Team Stability
Equity-Split Results, Part 1: When Do Teams Split Equally?
Splitting the Pie: Jumping the Gun?
Splitting the Pie: Founding Team Equity Splits
3 Tidbits from the “Emerging Ventures” Conference
Exit Decisions
“Founders’ Dilemmas” Course: Franchising, The Full Life Cycle of a Venture, and Exit Decisions
Financing
The Quick Handshake: A Valuation Penalty?
Founder-CEO Succession
Avoiding The BlackBerry Blues: Know When To Fire Yourself
“Founders’ Dilemmas” Course: Founder-CEO Succession Cases
New Article in Harvard Business Review: “The Founder’s Dilemma”
Hiring Into — and Demoting Into? — Executive Positions
Yahoo’s New Founder-CEO
Interview about Founder-CEO Succession
Bridge CEOs, Revisited
Doomed CEOs and Bridge CEOs
Nike, Cyberposium, and Jim Estill: 3 Takes on Founder-CEO Succession
3 Tidbits from the “Emerging Ventures” Conference
After the Firing: Initial Research Questions
Founder-CEO Succession
Franchising
“Founders’ Dilemmas” Course: Franchising, The Full Life Cycle of a Venture, and Exit Decisions
Gender Gap
The Gender Gap in Startups, Part 2: Compensation
The Gender Gap in Startups, Part 1: Women in IT and Life Sciences Ventures
Hiring
“Founders’ Dilemmas” Course: New-Venture Hiring Cases
Investors (and Managers) as Headhunters: Sources of New-Venture Executives
Hiring Into — and Demoting Into? — Executive Positions
Hiring Frustrations: Can Goliath Work in a David-Venture?
Upside-down VCs, Part 3: Synthesis of Comments
Upside-down VCs, Part 2: The Costs Versus Benefits of Junior Hires
Upside-down VCs, Part 1: The “First Morning” That Sparked It
HR 101: Hiring and Scaling Challenges
Idea People
The Idea Premium: How Much (Equity) is Your Idea Worth?
A Second Look at “Idea People” as CEOs: Should vs. Do
Idea People and Their Initial Roles Within Founding Teams
Investors
Salary Inequality Among Co-Founders: How Common?
Investors (and Managers) as Headhunters: Sources of New-Venture Executives
Due Diligence on Your Investors, Revisited
“Investor/Entrepreneur Value Expectation Gap”: A Postscript (Entrepreneur-Investors)
“Investor/Entrepreneur Value Expectation Gap”: Part 3 (Entrepreneur vs. Investor)
“Investor/Entrepreneur Value Expectation Gap”: Part 2 (Entrepreneur Results)
“Investor/Entrepreneur Value Expectation Gap”: Part 1 (Project Overview)
Due Diligence As a One-way Street
Nike, Cyberposium, and Jim Estill: 3 Takes on Founder-CEO Succession
Thanksgiving Dinner … With Your Investors
Building a Board: Composition by Company Stage
Building a Board: The Impact of Company Stage
Building a Board: Mentorship? Monitoring?
Latest Column
Google “Campus by the Book” Live Hangout
The Economic Times: Start-ups fail because of people problems
Stanford E-Corner: Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture Series
WSJ: Live Chat: Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Start-Up
Financial Times: The Case Study - When Founders Step Aside
The Free COO on Spreaker Radio with Donald Landwirth
HuffingtonPost: Beware the Perils of Entrepreneurial Passion
CBIA Business Minute – “The Founder’s Dilemmas”
NYT: A Harvard Professor Analyzes Why Start-Ups Fail
Financial Times Live Web Panel
WGBH Boston: Radio Interview with Noam
Bloomberg/BusinessWeek: ‘People Problems’ Sink Most Startups
WBEZ Chicago: Radio Interview with Noam
Fear vs. Greed at Facebook; by: Noam Wasserman for Inc.
Avoiding The BlackBerry Blues: Know When To Fire Yourself; by: Noam Wasserman for Forbes
Kauffman Sketchbook
Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?; by: Noam Wasserman for Wall Street Journal
4 Top Myths About Start-up Pay; by: Noam Wasserman for Inc.
MBA Course Content
Kauffman Sketchbook
Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?
“Founders’ Dilemmas” Course: Franchising, The Full Life Cycle of a Venture, and Exit Decisions
“Founders’ Dilemmas” Course: Founder-CEO Succession Cases
“Founders’ Dilemmas” Course: New-Venture Hiring Cases
“Founders’ Dilemmas” Course: “Building the (Founding) Team” Case Studies
Introductory Case
Course Overview for “Founders’ Dilemmas”
Press Coverage Section
Reid Hoffman Cites Noam’s Research in a Recent Post
Brad Feld: FeldThoughts blogs a Review of The Founder’s Dilemmas
Eric Ries’ Startup Lessons Learned: Founder’s Dilemmas — Equity Splits
BostonInno: 5 Founder Lessons From a Decade of Data on Startups
New York Journal of Books Reviews Founder’s Dilemmas
Forbes: HBS’s Noam Wasserman Brings Moneyball to Start-ups
Joel On Software (Blog of Joel Spolsky): The Founder’s Dilemmas
Avoiding Founder Failure: 26 Quick Tips and Real Data
Publisher’s Weekly: The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
PEhub: HBS’s Noam Wasserman on Cofounders, Equity Splits, and Reality Distortion Fields
Rich vs. King
Fear vs. Greed at Facebook
Rich vs. King, Around the World
Your Thoughts on Achieving Rich&King?
New Article in Harvard Business Review: “The Founder’s Dilemma”
“Rich vs. King” in HBS’s Working Knowledge
“Rich versus King”: Best Paper Proceedings Version
“Rich versus King”: Charts and Impressions
“Rich versus King”: The Core Concept
Roles
“Founders’ Dilemmas” Course: “Building the (Founding) Team” Case Studies
A Second Look at “Idea People” as CEOs: Should vs. Do
Idea People and Their Initial Roles Within Founding Teams
Neverland, or Dictatorship?
Serial Entrepreneurs
“Founders’ Dilemmas” Course: Franchising, The Full Life Cycle of a Venture, and Exit Decisions
The Perils of Being a (Successful) Serial Entrepreneur
Uncategorized
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Founder Cases in the News: Evan Williams (Twitter) and Apple
“Administrivia” Corner: This Blog is Now Email-enabled
Looking for (Movie) Suggestions: Your Favorite Founder Scenes?
A Look Back, A Look Forward … and a Request
Upcoming Posts: Summer 2006
Back Online!
Upcoming Keynote: October 12th in Boston
Preview of Upcoming Posts
A Note on My Research Approach and Data
VC Organizations
Upside-down VCs, Part 4: Other Factors, and Performance Implications
Upside-down VCs, Part 3: Synthesis of Comments
Upside-down VCs, Part 2: The Costs Versus Benefits of Junior Hires
Upside-down VCs, Part 1: The “First Morning” That Sparked It
Vesting
Is Dead Equity Crippling Your Company?
Fear vs. Greed at Facebook
Unlocking Your Golden Handcuffs: How Common is Accelerated Vesting on Change of Control?
Golden Handcuffs and Vesting: Initial Interpretations
Golden Handcuffs: Summary of Vesting Data
Golden Handcuffs and Vesting: Early Analyses
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