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You are assuming all wrong. Start by offering a tenth of what you would agree to pay. All you risk is that they accept your offer. It's standard business prac
by user5994461 9y ago
You are assuming all wrong.
Start by offering a tenth of what you would agree to pay. All you risk is that they accept your offer.
It's standard business practice. Works more often than not.
- mac01021 9y agoWhy a tenth? Why not 1%?
- notahacker 9y agoWhere "what I'm owed" is quite vague, or has only recently increased as in the case of growth companies, 10 or 20% might actually be accepted, or at least interpreted as a good faith start to negotiations. An offer of 1% is more obviously not the correct amount, and encourages people to lawyer up rather than counter offer (it screams "we're only offering this token amount because someone suggested our original plan of not giving you anything might not work")