Can someone please recommend a good up-to-date guide on creating options pools (ESOP) / options packages that are written from the founder's perspective.How many options to offer (relevant 2022 also), good vesting schedules etc.Most of the guides are written from employee's perspectives, and have the tone that assumes the company is out to screw over its employees, so "ask for more because you...
What can startup founders do early on to protect themselves from being fired by the board from their executive positions?I am talking pre-VC when the founders are the only directors of the board and can pass any bylaw. Also assuming, of course, that VCs want to invest enough to look past certain things.1. Can it be written into bylaws that founders cannot be fired unless there is a severe...
Are there any examples of ICO companies getting in trouble because of SEC?
Hello, can someone point to resource which would describe the legality of ICOs?A lot of coverage mentions "scam" and almost all ICOs say "can't be bought by US and EU citizens"Is there a blog post / paper on that?
What is the difference between O-1 and green card in terms of requirements? If one got O-1 does it mean (s)he can get green card next?
Hello,First of all - please humor me if the question is somewhat colloquially phrase - I approached this as a question I would ask a knowledgeable acquaintance at the coffee-shop.I know and love Rails and have enjoyed using Ruby last few years. In particular I enjoyed the fact that Ruby has so many different libraries, tools ported / adapted to it - I could do NLP projects, ML projects even...
Hi, we need to beta test apps for OSX, Windows, Linux.For iOS there is Testflight, for Android - Testfairy. What is a good solution for desktop app if any?Or if there is none, maybe someone can recommend a good workflow? We would be perfectly happy with public unlisted Github repository, but there is no such thing.
Hello,Is there an open source email assistant? Like https://x.ai/?Or maybe some kind of guide on how to build one?
Hello,We have a distributed (2, sometimes 3 countries) team of mostly engineers. We have bi-weekly conference calls to discuss the progress and set goals. The team is 8 people. The managers are the founders and they are often away from the core engineering team, so the engineers are trusted to be efficient working remotely (no issues on this part).Although everyone is really motivated, I feel...