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Do Your Employees Think Like Owners? 10 Tips For Building An Entrepreneurial Culture.

YoungUpstarts

Here’s an example of how they made performance-based compensation work: If someone sold 100 cases in April 2000, and 100 cases in April 2001 (these numbers are unrealistically small for simplicity), their commission would be the same in both years.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. We weren’t the first investor in Rally. Ryan quickly raised about $400k of friends and family money.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. we had about 25 firms contacting us – more than I could manage. Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. At the end of this post I’ll tell you what he said.

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Who’s Your Daddy? 5 Lessons from GoDaddy

Growthink Blog

There are plenty of cases where a small startup has managed to grow into a billion-dollar company. That changed in 2001, however, and GoDaddy.com quickly grew. In 2005, GoDaddy.com became the world’s largest ICANN-accredited registrar on the internet.

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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

Another company which is going to have widespread impact is eShares, eShares is going to change the way the private companies manage their equity. In late 2000, early 2001 I started my second company to test whether I can build a successful company again. VN : What do you look for in companies that you put money in?

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What Everyone Should Take Away from Twitter’s 8% Staff Reductions

Both Sides of the Table

You can read it in VCs discussions about hedge fund managers, activist investors or the need to have dual-share voting structures. We have an entire generation of startup founders who don’t have muscle memory from getting their burn rates back into shape from 2008/09 or 2001-2005. Some companies have to go first.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

Member since 01/2005. The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001. They had a great managment team, A list VCs, great technology, excellent sales traction and market leadership in a very exciting space. management. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. innovation.

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