View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2014

The most successful approaches to splitting founders equity typically involve establishing a framework that all the co-founders buy into at the outset. For example, when we started LinkedIn at the end of 2002, each member of the founding team essentially had a couple chunks of founders’ common stock.

Equity 315

Equity Founder Sweat Equity Cofounder 315

Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

The most successful approaches to splitting founders equity typically involve establishing a framework that all the co-founders buy into at the outset. For example, when we started LinkedIn at the end of 2002, each member of the founding team essentially had a couple chunks of founders’ common stock.

Cofounder 255

Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 255

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Taking into account the difference in storage costs in 2002, Schippers estimates that Zuckerberg was spending $3,000 per month on hosting for the first year and about $10 million per month by 2006 as the network grew exponentially in that time period. “The But cloning something that’s been proven is the easy part.”.

Cost 168

Cost San Francisco New York City Ruby 168

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. Frameworks for businesses during a crisis. Each study, however, offers a framework to help with decision making. Our CRO team uses ResearchXL , which is a comprehensive framework for identifying test ideas, though its methods apply broadly. What the big studies have shown.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

The most successful approaches to splitting founders equity typically involve establishing a framework that all the co-founders buy into at the outset. For example, when we started LinkedIn at the end of 2002, each member of the founding team essentially had a couple chunks of founders’ common stock.

Cofounder 173

Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 173

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

Fortunately we proved skeptics wrong and every one of these strategic investors made a tidy 2.5 – 3x return once PayPal IPO’d in 2002 and then was acquired by eBay later that year. I don’t have the statistics for the overall startup ecosystem, but I suspect that they’re not radically different than the NextView portfolio.

Strategic Investors 120

Strategic Investors Post-Money Valuation Seed Stage Cofounder 120

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2012

Several on- and offline resources serve as references and reminders of this important framework; a simple search can help you fall into the GAAP. The Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or GAAP, are the set of rules that govern financial accounting in businesses. What You Thought It Meant: Giant Awesome Animatronic Porcupine.

Non-disclosure Agreement 202

Non-disclosure Agreement NDA IPO Covenant 202