I have been thinking about early stage equity and advisor grants for some time, including a post in 2016, that I rely on and wanted to revisit. I have had a few founder friends reach out to me asking about how much equity to give to an advisor, and had some operators reach out asking …
Tags: Advising, Building The Machine
Tuesday night I attended the kickoff for mentors and got to hear from the companies that have joined the Alchemist Blockchain Techstars Accelerator in New York – it was a lot of fun and well executed by the managing director of the program Yossi Hasson. He has put together an incredible team it seems with …
Tags: Advising, Alchemist, TechStars
Values are an important part of hiring and team building, but hard to justify the time to create them. This is a framework I have used with early stage teams to come up with values with the entire team. It works well for <10 person companies and takes around 1.5 hours. The output is a …
Tags: Advising, Values
One piece of advice I have found helpful to new founders is going through the application process for startup programs. Whether an accelerator, incubator, launch, or other flavor of program helpful to early stage startups – almost all of the application processes are incredibly helpful. The goal of course is to have ready and willing …
Tags: Advising, startups