Altgate

APRIL 28, 2012

—————————————– I’ve been collecting data about startups and compensation since 2001. Since 2000, I’ve been collecting information about startups, including how much founders, their lieutenants, and their employees get paid. Myth number 2.

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www.noamwasserman.com

MARCH 26, 2012

I’ve been collecting data about startups and compensation since 2001. Since 2000, I’ve been collecting information about startups, including how much founders, their lieutenants, and their employees get paid. Founders often believe that their own compensation is a ceiling beyond which they will not have to pay new hires.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

That option involved trying to get a job at a young Silicon Valley company that had just gone public and would, in a few short years, crash and burn, lay off everyone, and quickly fade into oblivion. In January 1995, it had around 100 employees. A few months later, it had 200 employees. Yes, I passed up all that.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 24, 2021

Startups Should Work To Make Their Employees Wealthy Not Just Their Founders And Investors. You see, it was for work I’d performed from 2001–2003 at a startup called Linden Lab, the company behind virtual world Second Life. And I achieved ‘ Silicon Valley Middle Class ’ wealth status. 04/share if I’m recalling correctly.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. We cut all 30 contractors immediately.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. Well known founders within Silicon Valley demanded this kind of change across the board, and if they wanted to see it internally, they also had to see it within the organizations that touched their group. I've been in venture now twice.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

It means hiring carefully from the start. RISD Industrial Design Program Jony Ive Joe Gebbia Nate Blecharczyk Sam Altman Sequoia x Airbnb Jeff Stump on hiring Paul Graham Tara Bunch Pablo Picasso: "It took me four years to learn to paint like Raphael." Commitments to respect their employees, their customers, their partners.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 Sure, I wrote about startups all the time, but my work experience with a classic Silicon Valley-styled startup was non-existent. Here is the TL:DR version in case you are pressed for time. STARTING IT UP.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

We are unbelievably lucky to be here right now, with a team of über-talented people from the best and brightest Silicon Valley companies, at a moment when what a book should be is morphing before our very eyes. As I watched the new CEO hire and fire 3 regional VP’s I finally sat him down. That’s massive.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Smart, capable managers would not hesitate to make decisions instead of allowing their employees to make them. This left very smart employees feeling very frustrated because their managers would interfere intermittently and at random moments. Lesson: Joel had been building a community of readers since 2001. 15 minutes.

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