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Dominic Jacquessonleft a comment
Hello Product Hunt! 👋 In my 12 years at Index Ventures I have worked with over 200 founders and their teams, helping them to scale their companies. Many are surprised to discover that half of their time gets absorbed by people-related stuff. The amount of headspace taken up by hiring, managing and aligning people is one of the biggest culture shocks when it comes to building a high-growth...
TeamPlanOrg design benchmarking tool for startups
Index Ventures analyzed 200,000+ employee profiles from more than 200 startups, and packed the data into TeamPlan to help founders benchmark their team growth and composition against the most successful tech companies, from 0 to 500 headcount.
TeamPlanOrg design benchmarking tool for startups
Dominic Jacquessonleft a comment
I'm Dominic Jacquesson, VP Insight & Talent at Index Ventures, a global VC fund that has invested in iconic companies like Roblox, Deliveroo, Robinhood, Datadog, Confluent, Slack, and Farfetch. I'm really excited to launch OptionPlan Seed, which we hope becomes the go-to app for all seed founders designing their ESOPs. I would love to hear your feedback! OptionPlan was launched for Series A...
OptionPlan SeedHelping seed-stage founders design stock option plans
OptionPlan Seed is the go to app for founders designing their ESOP. It uses the latest benchmark data from 20,000 option grants from 1,600 start ups to cover every role in the team, providing 6 different levels of allocation benchmarks.
OptionPlan SeedHelping seed-stage founders design stock option plans
ExpansionPlan from Index Ventures helps European founders determine the best strategy for US expansion and answers strategic questions such as: When to expand? Does the founder have to move? Who should our first US hires be? Where to build our leadership team?
ExpansionPlanIdentifies the best US expansion strategy for your startup
Dominic Jacquessonleft a comment
I'm Dominic Jacquesson, VP Insight at Index Ventures, and I'm looking forward to hearing your feedback on ExpansionPlan. Some of the most common questions we get asked by European entrepreneurs are about expanding to the US. Having directly supported over 40 startups on this key challenge, we also conducted research on 353 startups that have made the leap, and dug into the stories behind the 33...
ExpansionPlanIdentifies the best US expansion strategy for your startup
Rewarding Talent by Index VenturesHandbook on stock options + OptionPlan web app
Dominic Jacquessonleft a comment
I'm Dominic Jacquesson, Director of Talent at Index Ventures, and I'm looking forward to hearing your feedback on OptionPlan. We are constantly asked by entrepreneurs for advice on stock option grants, so decided to put something special out there to benefit the entire tech ecosystem. If you have, or are about to, raise your Series A, OptionPlan will help you to design a customised option plan...
OptionPlanDesign a stock option plan with benchmarks for every role
Stock options are critical for hiring and retaining the best talent. But to create an effective plan, entrepreneurs need to know how much to award to each team member, and how much this could be worth to them. OptionPlan is based on the largest ever set of benchmark data, and can be easily tailored to your needs.
OptionPlanDesign a stock option plan with benchmarks for every role
Expanding into EuropeA guide for US entrepreneurs on how to launch in Europe