Starting a company

Company Founding

• Incorporation
  • When is it a good idea
  • What are the key reasons forcing the decision?
  • Types of corporations
• Founding team
  • What is a founder and why does it matter?
  • “Can I be a founder too?”
• Equity
  • How to divide up the pie
  • Stock options and the option pool
  • Why it exists and how it works
• Vesting
  • Percentages

Building a company

• Hiring
  • Who should be on the founding team?
• interviewing
  • How fast do you hire?
  • What do you look for?
  • How do you decide?
• Company Culture
  • Titles
  • Salaries - how much?
  • Giving feedback
  • Fairness
• Benefits
  • Offices, office space, remote work, dogs
  • Secrecy/Confidentiality
• When things go wrong
  • Firing
  • Layoffs
  • Legal issues
  • Lawsuits