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LegalWatch - Startups often use equity to help attract and keep talented workers. This article outlines the differences and similarities of stock options and restricted stock purchase agreements, as well as why most early-stage startups that issue stock shortly after formation select restricted stock when compensating their workers.
First, a few clarifications:
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Advertising - Mobile devices have changed the way consumers interact with companies. Consumers are now accessing websites on the go, liking an organization’s Facebook page and clicking on ads that interest them in certain applications. With...
Apps - The calendar says it doesn’t start until late June, but everyone knows that summer officially kicks off on Memorial Day Weekend. Whether it’s planes, trains or automobiles, everyone’s getting the hell out of Dodge. Here are a few...
Management - For most entrepreneurs, the sales presentation equation is simple: no customers equals no revenue. This means you must give the same level of focus, energy and creativity to your sales pitch that you have done to developing your...
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The cloud. It’s the much-talked-about, often misunderstood darling of the tech world. But, despite how much the cloud is talked about, it still remains a bit of a mystery to many. It’s often not clear just what “the...
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Community for any startup goes beyond just engaging users — it’s the world you want to create for them. Like a teacher, you create the...
Strategic - Local merchants are flocking to social networks like Facebook and Twitter, utilizing free marketing tools to acquire new customers and build brand awareness. On an average week, local businesses’ Facebook pages get more than 645...
Management - The partnerships you make in your business can be your biggest blessing or your greatest curse; it just depends on how you approach them. By making the right alliances from the get-go – whether it’s a partner, employee or supplier...
Funding - I’m always looking for evidence of early startup characteristics that might be predictors of long-term success. Every investor has his own list, usually based on his own very small sample or simply his gut feeling. Of course, we would...
Advice - For entrepreneurs, business school presents a unique set of choices and opportunities that can drastically alter a founder’s chance of success — for better or worse.
I founded Troop ID while I was an MBA candidate...
Strategic - Finally, New York City offers an all-day ‘hackathon’ for marketing and product development. StrategyHack, organized by The Inventure Co., brings together marketers and early-stage startups for a day of hacking together marketing...
Advice - Today we speak with Women Innovate Mobile mentor, Adaora Udoji.
Adaora is the founder and marketing director of The Boshia Group, a network of content creators, developers and strategists. The network provides media...
Funding - Whether experienced entrepreneurs, successful executives from a previous start-up, rock star developers from a technology bellwether or hungry, scrappy, determined newcomers looking to change the world, we want to talk to you. With that...
Strategic - In many companies strategy is akin to a waterfall. Senior leaders spend considerable time in each others company formulating and calculating the best way forward for their company. Once inspiration has struck, they then look to...
Strategic - Finding your authentic brand’s story is not a luxury for the touchy-feely. Given our overloaded channels of communication and the general lack of trust (and boredom) with advertising messages, finding your brand’s true emotional...
