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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

System Design Cheatsheet

Step One: Framing The Problem a.k.a get the MVP

Identify the use cases that are in scope
Determine constraints based on scoped use cases

use case : the things your system needs to be do.

constraints : the things your system will have to consider to be able to do stuff

Regular Expression Engine Comparison Chart

Many different applications claim to support regular expressions. But what does that even mean?

Well there are lots of different regular expression engines, and they all have different feature sets and different time-space efficiencies.

The information here is just copied from: http://regular-expressions.mobi/refflavors.html

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

	function bar(func) {
	console.log('bar entered');
	func(5);
	console.log('bar exiting');
	}

	function foo() {
	var x = callCC(function(cont) {
	console.log('calling bar');
	bar(cont);

	function work(project) {
	project.setup();
	while (not(project.finished)) {
	try {
	project.next();
	} catch (unknown) {
	reality = think(unknown);
	mental-model = visualize(mental-domain-model, project.current-task);
	solution = search(difference(mental-model, reality));
	project.debug(solution);

	module ArchictectureErrorHandler where

	import Text exposing (fromString)
	import String
	import Json.Decode as Json exposing (..)

	import StartApp exposing (start)
	import Html exposing (..)
	import Http exposing (get, Error)
	import Effects exposing (Effects)

	Simple fuzzy search algorithm similar to sublimeText

	this is a simple algorithm to give a similar result
	as SublimeText search feature, if you don't use sublimeText
	i think you should just give it a shot from here :
	http://www.sublimetext.com

	to know more about fuzzy search you should check this wiki page:
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_string_searching

	var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');
	var fs = require('fs');

	var driver = new webdriver.Builder().build();

	webdriver.WebDriver.prototype.saveScreenshot = function(filename) {
	return driver.takeScreenshot().then(function(data) {
	fs.writeFile(filename, data.replace(/^data:image\/png;base64,/,''), 'base64', function(err) {
	if(err) throw err;
	});