Compensation Questions

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...

Co-Founder Equity Compensation

asked Nov 18 '12 at 21:45

Aj Yusuf
1 point

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...

Co-Founder Equity Compensation Partnerships

asked Oct 20 '12 at 07:41

Derek
164 points

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...

Employees Compensation

asked Oct 4 '12 at 18:06

Rob
31 points

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...

Hiring Compensation

asked Sep 28 '12 at 03:58

Acjohnson55
181 points

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...

Employees Compensation

asked Sep 17 '12 at 00:45

T. W.
11 points

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...

Equity Employees Compensation

asked Aug 1 '12 at 06:15

Nt3 Rp
115 points

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...

Founder Founders Compensation Stock Options CEO

asked Aug 2 '12 at 15:39

Webwrks
131 points

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...

Compensation Remote

asked Jun 19 '12 at 03:39

Mikle
113 points

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...

Funding Compensation

asked May 28 '12 at 16:13

Russell
180 points

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...

Compensation

asked May 11 '12 at 16:18

Goths
116 points

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...

Sales Incentives Compensation

asked May 13 '12 at 04:45

Alex
31 points

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...

Sales Compensation

asked Mar 27 '12 at 05:49

Jd Blue Audi S4
6 points

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,...

Business Model Compensation Joint Venture

asked Mar 17 '12 at 00:56

James
6 points

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...

Sales Salary Compensation Commission

asked Feb 13 '12 at 08:09

Clint
695 points

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...

Sales B2B Compensation Service Rates

asked Feb 2 '12 at 21:31

Phil
13 points

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...

Founder Equity Compensation Seed Funding CEO

asked Jan 26 '12 at 04:28

Thomas
6 points

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...

Sales Compensation

asked Jan 2 '12 at 14:36

David Mokon Bond
234 points

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...

Equity Compensation

asked Jan 4 '12 at 09:15

Sam
6 points

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)....

Sales Compensation

asked Dec 9 '11 at 18:21

Umassthrower
458 points

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...

Co-Founder Compensation Investors Vesting

asked Dec 15 '11 at 12:57

Ina
121 points