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Startup Equity: The Most Common Mistake (Part 7 of an n part series)
Jan 03,2017January 3, 2017
By adminIn Articles, Bonus, Compensation Philosophy, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Executive Compensation, Long Term Incentives, Performance Units, Restricted Stock, RSU, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Say on Pay, Short-Term Incentives - STI, Start-up Pay, Stock OptionsTags burn rate, compensation philosophy, dilution, equity pool, executive compensation, Incentives/Bonuses, rsu, startup equity, stock options, stock/equity compensation
Here is my 2017 gift to you. I truly believe that equity compensation helped build the technology industry, and therefore...
Startup Equity: Synthetic Equity or Sharing Without Sharing (Part 5 of an n part series)
Dec 06,2016December 6, 2016
By adminIn Articles, Bonus, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Executive Compensation, Long Term Incentives, Pay For Performance, Performance Units, Restricted Stock, RSU, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Say on Pay, Short-Term Incentives - STI, Start-up Pay, Stock OptionsTags equity compensation, executive compensation, Incentives/Bonuses, pay for performance, phantom stock, rsu, SAR. appreciation rights, startup, stock options, stock plan, stock/equity compensation
When you hear “equity compensation” and startups, you immediately think of stock options. More recently RSUs (restricted stock units that...
Startup Equity: Comparing Your “Currency” to a Competitor’s (Part 4 of an n part series)
Nov 28,2016November 28, 2016
By adminIn Articles, Bonus, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Executive Compensation, Long Term Incentives, Pay For Performance, Performance Units, Restricted Stock, RSU, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Say on Pay, Short-Term Incentives - STI, Start-up Pay, Stock OptionsTags compensation, currency exchange, equity, executive compensation, fx, Incentives/Bonuses, pay, pay for performance, start-up, startup, stock options, stock/equity compensation
Comparing base bay is relatively easy, equity not so much. A dollar is a dollar. And, if a dollar isn’t...
Startup Equity: Why are VCs Getting so Stingy with Equity? (Part 3 of an n part series)
Nov 17,2016November 17, 2016
By adminIn Articles, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Executive Compensation, Long Term Incentives, Pay For Performance, Performance Units, Restricted Stock, RSU, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Say on Pay, Short-Term Incentives - STI, Start-up Pay, Stock OptionsTags compensation, entrepreneur, equity, executive compensation, incentive, investors, ipo, pay, pay for performance, startup, stock/equity compensation, vc, venture capital
Does this familiar? You had a great idea and turned it into a company. Somehow you got to the point...
Broadway Acts on Sharing Success
Oct 17,2016October 17, 2016
By adminIn Articles, Bonus, Compensation Philosophy, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Long Term Incentives, Performance Units, Restricted Stock, RSU, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Short-Term Incentives - STI, Stock OptionsTags compensation, compensation philosophy, disney, equity, frozen, hamilton, incentives, Incentives/Bonuses, ownership, pay, profits, sharing, stock/equity compensation, total rewards
You build it. You buy it. This may become the new mantra on Broadway. The original cast of Hamilton was...
OMG! You Were Right All Along!
Oct 06,2016October 6, 2016
By adminIn Articles, Bonus, Communication, Executive Compensation, Long Term Incentives, Pay For Performance, Sales Compensation, Say on Pay, Short-Term Incentives - STITags behavioral psychology, compensation communication, executive compensation, goals, Incentive Plans, Incentives/Bonuses, measurement, metrics, P4P, pay for performance, Performance Management, sales compensation
Remember that time you spent weeks modeling a new incentive plan only to have it shot down? They explained that...
The Real Cost of Mismanaged Incentives: Wells Fargo
Sep 29,2016September 29, 2016
By adminIn Articles, Bonus, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Executive Compensation, Long Term Incentives, Pay For Performance, Performance Units, Restricted Stock, RSU, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Say on Pay, Short-Term Incentives - STI, Stock OptionsTags carrie tensfeldt, elizabeth warren, executive compensation, executive pay, incentive compensation, incentive pay, Incentives/Bonuses, john stumpf, pay for performance, Performance Management, Regulations & Public Policy, stock/equity compensation, wells fargo pay
Well, so much for the warm-hearted caffeinated, pick-me-up from the Comp Café. Today is a steaming jolt of quadruple espresso...
Applying Pixar’s “22 Rules of Storytelling” to Pay
Sep 22,2016September 22, 2016
By adminIn Articles, Base Pay / Salary, Bonus, Communication, Compensation Philosophy, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Long Term Incentives, Pay For Performance, Performance Units, Restricted Stock, RSU, Sales Compensation, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Short-Term Incentives - STI, Stock OptionsTags Base Salaries, compensation, compensation communication, compensation philosophy, incentives, Incentives/Bonuses, pay, pay for performance, pixar, rules, sales compensation, stock/equity compensation, storytelling
What do ‘Up’, ‘Cars’, ‘Inside Out’, ‘Monsters, Inc’, ‘Ratatouille’, ‘Toy Story 3’, ‘The Incredibles’, ‘Finding Nemo’, ‘Toy Story’ and ‘WALL-E’...
When Incentive Pay Goes Rogue!
Sep 13,2016September 13, 2016
A friend of mine likes to say: “It’s not that incentive pay doesn’t work well, it’s that it works TOO...