#spotlight: How Racially Diverse Are The Oscars, Really?
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This article spotlights Ali Tehrani’s #Design process. This visualization was featured as Tableau’s Viz of the Day on April 26, 2021.Earlier this year, I came..
#Community #Data_Journalism #Data_Visualization #equity #How_To
Understanding the Terminology in Your Employee #equity Offer
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Illustration by David HuangNo one — with the possible exception of finance experts — looks at their equity package and thinks, “Yep, makes sense.”To help clarify, we’ve put together a short glossary of terms you’re likely to see in your offer, along with literal — and more practical — definitions.1. Four-year monthly vestYou thought you were getting that fat 0.1% equity stake the moment you signed? Think again, friend. You’re going to receive it piecemeal, on a regular schedule referred to as a “vesting schedule.” Think of it as your company’s layaway plan for paying out your equity grant.Literal Definition: You will receive a fraction of your equity package each month, and if you’re still working there in four years, you will have your entire package.Practical Definition: You’re probably not going to earn (...)
#startup #equity-terminology #employee-equity-offer #equity-offer
The Liquidation Preference Effect
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Your #equity Could Be Worth Millions — Or NothingIllustration by Meredith MiotkeIn 2014, mobile security startup Good Technology was valued at $1.1 billion. Employees thought their equity packages were winning lottery tickets. They were wrong.One year later, Good sold for $425 million. Employee share prices tumbled from $4.32 a share to $0.44. While executives made millions, employees — some of whom paid $100,000+ in taxes on their equity — made next to nothing.Good Technology’s situation isn’t uncommon. Like so many startups, it had investors and board members whose equity was protected by high liquidation preference — a guarantee that they get paid first and at least a certain amount when the company sells. When startup investors make millions in a sale, but money runs dry before reaching employees, a (...)
#liquidation-preference #liquidity-preference #liquidation-effect #hackernoon-top-story
#DevStories @ GitHub HQ, and Officially Oversubscribed Crowdfund!
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But first, shoutouts to our investors of the week: Nader Azad, Ben Forgan, and George Georgallides. We hit the max!Hey Hackers,Two great things happened last night:Firstly, 120+ developers showed up to our Hacker Noon #devstories @Github event, which was the first time 3 of our 8 speakers (all veteran developers btw) gave a dev talk.And secondly, our equity crowdfunding is now officially fully subscribed! Woohoo! Regardless, there’re still chances to invest some more. I’ll explain in a bit.Thank you Stefan!Hacker Noon #devstories event @ GitHub HQHacker Noon’s humble start as a tech blog was a place for the overqualified and under-glorified engineers to share their stories, from the first-person perspective. We’re a place to publish how they do they job: what they’re building, why it’s cool, (...)
#hackernoon-letter #one-million-dollars #equity-crowdfunding #dev-story #hackernoon-top-story
#2018 reflected
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2018 reflected: equity crowdfunding, silver linings, and Grandma.As 2018 is coming to an end, I thought I’d spend some time to reflect on the two most important lessons I learned in 2018, the first one about what’d predict success in an equity crowdfunding, and the second one about silver linings in trying times.Lesson 1: Equity crowdfunding is powerful and empowering, but not for everyone. It makes the most sense when your business is 1. community-oriented and 2. independently-owned.Why community-oriented?Since the launch, startengine.com/hackernoon has attracted 38,000 visits, >85% of which is from the Hacker Noon community. We put the campaign link atop #hackernoon.com, our newsletters, our social media channels and other media assets. It’s clear: our community does rally behind us. (...)
TOP TWENTY TECH STORIES THIS WEEK
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So, over the last two weeks Bitcoin (BTC, $4,226.75) has declined by over 30%, Ethereum (ETH, $119.13) has declined by by over 45%, and FAANG has lost about a trillion dollars worth of value in 6 weeks. What a great time to be raising tech money! Do check out the Hacker Noon equity crowdfunding campaign — we’re up to $650,000+ from 542 investors in 3 weeks.Here are TOP TWENTY TECH STORIES THIS WEEK:Seed Funding193 days, 1,482 emails, $590,000 dollars: Exposing the Nitty Gritty Details of our Seed Round by Andy CookVenture CapitalThe Team-First Approach to Landing a Successful Series A by John VrionisArtificial IntelligenceInterview with Co-Founder and Researcher at Fast.ai: Dr. Rachel Thomas by Sanyam BhutaniDiversifying The Engineer’s ResponsibilitiesWhy Software Engineers Should Engage in (...)
#top-tech-stories #equity-crowdfunding #technology #crypto-winter #hackernoon-letter
What a Startup Needs to Know if their going to sell securities in the US?
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What Startups Need to Know if they’re going to Sell Securities in the US? (Reg D, Reg CF, Reg A+, WTF..)The goal of this article is to give a brief overview of the rules that are issued by the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission). This is an attempt of the author to go in-depth and have an updated guide about the rules for selling securities in the US. All materials in this article are for informational purposes only. None of the material presented here should be interpreted as investment advice.The main revolution in #crowdfunding happened back in 2012 when US President Barack Obama signed the JOBS Act (Jumpstart Our Business Startups), which gave people more freedom to raise capital for “emerging growth companies” (with annual gross revenues of less than $1 bln). Starting from that (...)
#equity-crowdfunding #sell-security #blockchain #sell-us-securities