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Fred WilsonLast week I kicked off my MBA Mondays series on Employee Equity. Today I am going to talk about one of the most important things you need to understand about employee equity; it is likely to be diluted over time. When you start a company, you and your founders own 100% of the company. That […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonOne of the topics I get asked about most on MBA Mondays is "options." But options are only one form of employee equity. I am going to do a series of posts on this topic over the next month of MBA Mondays. I will start by laying out the logic for employee equity, going over […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonA lot of the discussion about last week’s MBA Mondays post on Outsourcing was about the differences between outsourcing locally and outsourcing outside your home country. A popular term for the latter approach is offshoring. The advent of modern electronic communications has allowed companies to […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI am posting this as a MBA Mondays post. But I did not learn this little lesson at business school. I learned it from a very experienced venture capitalist early in my post-MBA career. I was working on a CEO search for one of our struggling portfolio comapnies. We had a bunch of them. I […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonA reader suggested this topic for MBA Mondays. It is a good one. When a customer commits to spend money with your company, that is a “booking”. A booking is often tied to some form of contract between your company and the customer. The contract can be simple or very complicated. And some bookings do […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonA reader asked me to blog about the "Venture Partner" role in VC firms. I thought it was a good suggestion so here goes. A Venture Partner is a person who a VC firm brings on board to help them do investments and manage them, but is not a full and permanent member of the […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
