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What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

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

Enable tab completion for JSX with Emmet in Atom

This guide assumes you have the emmet and language-babel packages already installed in Atom

Open the keymap.cson file by clicking on Atom -> Keymap… in the menu bar
Add these lines of code to your keymap:

'atom-text-editor[data-grammar~="jsx"]:not([mini])':

Atom Clojure Setup

This describes how I setup Atom for an ideal Clojure development workflow. This fixes indentation on newlines, handles parentheses, etc. The keybinding settings for enter (in keymap.cson) are important to get proper newlines with indentation at the right level. There are other helpers in init.coffee and keymap.cson that are useful for cutting, copying, pasting, deleting, and indenting Lisp expressions.

Install Atom

Download Atom

The Atom documentation is excellent. It's highly worth reading the flight manual.

Intercom user_hash

Code for generating the user_hash value for Intercom's Identity verfication (Note: Identity verification was prevoiusly called Secure Mode)
Based on http://www.jokecamp.com/blog/examples-of-creating-base64-hashes-using-hmac-sha256-in-different-languages/#ruby
When creating this for mobile, the final output needs to be in lowercase (the web version accepts both upper and lower case)

Remember that your secret key should never be exposed to the public

So Javascript code below should only be used for testing unless modified and used to run on a server

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####How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly

Originally posted at etf.org

Title: Project Title Author: First Last Email: [email protected] Address: 1234 Street, City, State 12345 Phone: (XXX)XXX-XXXX Affiliation: www.LaCroixDesign.net Copyright: 2015 Company Name Keywords: Proposal, Web Design Date: March 13, 2015

	import React, { Component } from 'react';

	import TextField from 'components/base/TextField';

	const WAIT_INTERVAL = 1000;
	const ENTER_KEY = 13;

	export default class TextSearch extends Component {
	constructor(props) {
	super();

	<!doctype html>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<title>Example</title>

	<style>
	div {
	width: 100px;
	height: 100px;
	background: black;
	animation-duration: .5s;

	# -- coding: utf-8 --
	"""Demo to add a music service track or album to a queue."""
	from __future__ import unicode_literals

	from soco import SoCo
	from soco.data_structures import DidlItem, DidlResource
	from soco.music_services import MusicService
	from soco.compat import quote_url