jdmaturen

Who pays when startup employees keep their equity?

JD Maturen, 2016/07/05, San Francisco, CA

As has been much discussed, stock options as used today are not a practical or reliable way of compensating employees of fast growing startups. With an often high strike price, a large tax burden on execution due to AMT, and a 90 day execution window after leaving the company many share options are left unexecuted.

There have been a variety of proposed modifications to how equity is distributed to address these issues for individual employees. However, there hasn't been much discussion of how these modifications will change overall ownership dynamics of startups. In this post we'll dive into the situation as it stands today where there is very near 100% equity loss when employees leave companies pre-exit and then we'll look at what would happen if there were instead a 0% loss rate.

What we'll see is that employees gain nearly 3-fold, while both founders and investors – particularly early investors – get dilute

mlocati

@echo off

setlocal
call :setESC

cls
echo %ESC%[101;93m STYLES %ESC%[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[0m %ESC%[0mReset%ESC%[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[1m %ESC%[1mBold%ESC%[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[4m %ESC%[4mUnderline%ESC%[0m

alirobe

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### UPDATE: For Win 11, I recommend using this tool in place of this script: 
### https://christitus.com/windows-tool/
### https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
### https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQZ5oQg8XA
### iwr -useb https://christitus.com/win | iex
###
### OR take a look at 
### https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security

datasage

<?php
/**
 * Fancy ID generator that creates 20-character string identifiers with the following properties:
 *
 * 1. They're based on timestamp so that they sort *after* any existing ids.
 * 2. They contain 72-bits of random data after the timestamp so that IDs won't collide with other clients' IDs.
 * 3. They sort *lexicographically* (so the timestamp is converted to characters that will sort properly).
 * 4. They're monotonically increasing.  Even if you generate more than one in the same timestamp, the
 *    latter ones will sort after the former ones.  We do this by using the previous random bits
 *    but "incrementing" them by 1 (only in the case of a timestamp collision).

miglen

Amazon Web Services (AWS) & Google Cloud Platform (GCP) explained in simple English

This guide is only representative from my point of view and it may not be accurate and you should go on the official AWS & GCP websites for accurate and detailed information. It's initially inspired by AWS in simple English and GCP for AWS professionals. The idea is to compare both services, give simple one-line explanation and examples with other software that might have similiar capabilities. Comment below for suggestions.

Category	Service	AWS	GCP	Description	It's like
Compute	IaaS	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	Google Compute Engine	Type-1 virtual servers	VMware ESXi, Citrix XenServer
	PaaS	AWS Elastic Beanstalk	Google App Engine	Running your app on a platform

RuGa

/**
* Mass (bulk) insert or update on duplicate for Laravel 4/5
* 
* insertOrUpdate([
*   ['id'=>1,'value'=>10],
*   ['id'=>2,'value'=>60]
* ]);
* 
*
* @param array $rows

lukepolo

var base_path = __dirname.replace('resources/node', '');

require('dotenv').config({
    path: base_path + '.env'
});

var env = process.env;

/* Illuminate\Auth\SessionGuard@getName */
var loginSHA1 = 'login_web_59ba36addc2b2f9401580f014c7f58ea4e30989d';

imjasonh

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    font-size: 12pt;
    font-family: monospace;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
    text-decoration: none;
    color: black;
    cursor: default;
}

amochohan

#Laravel 5 Simple ACL manager

Protect your routes with user roles. Simply add a 'role_id' to the User model, install the roles table and seed if you need some example roles to get going.

If the user has a 'Root' role, then they can perform any actions.

Installation

Simply copy the files across into the appropriate directories, and register the middleware in App\Http\Kernel.php

markjaquith

upstream phpfpm {
	server unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
}

upstream hhvm {
	server unix:/var/run/hhvm/hhvm.sock;
}

# SSL
ssl_protocols             TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;