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@CristinaSolana
CristinaSolana / gist:1885435
Created February 22, 2012 14:56
Keeping a fork up to date

1. Clone your fork:

git clone [email protected]:YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-FORKED-REPO.git

2. Add remote from original repository in your forked repository:

cd into/cloned/fork-repo
git remote add upstream git://github.com/ORIGINAL-DEV-USERNAME/REPO-YOU-FORKED-FROM.git
git fetch upstream
@mikesmullin
mikesmullin / chromedriver.sh
Created May 8, 2012 16:08
easily install chromedriver on linux/osx
sudo apt-get install unzip;
wget -O /tmp/chromedriver.zip http://chromedriver.googlecode.com/files/chromedriver_linux64_19.0.1068.0.zip && sudo unzip /tmp/chromedriver.zip chromedriver -d /usr/local/bin/;
@Turbo87
Turbo87 / app.js
Created February 15, 2015 04:05
webpack + font-awesome test
require('font-awesome/css/font-awesome.css');
document.body.innerHTML = '<i class="fa fa-fw fa-question"></i>';
@ldong
ldong / download_egghead_videos.md
Last active December 7, 2023 16:16
download egghead videos

Download videos from egghead

Go to the egghead website, i.e. Building a React.js App

run

$.each($('h4 a'), function(index, video){
  console.log(video.href);
});
@jdmaturen
jdmaturen / company-ownership.md
Last active July 29, 2023 22:39
Who pays when startup employees keep their equity?

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