Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

You scraped together enough for an angel round but not enough to pay yourself a real salary. In the startup journey if you have success in your early product launches, fund raising and PR you’re likely to get “inbound interest” from likely acquirers. I’d like to give you a few examples that are more nuanced: 1.

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JANUARY 7, 2017

Something similar happened during a salary negotiation seminar years later. The beauty of working in PR is that you get to learn how other companies and industries operate. Before my business partner, Lina Khalil, and I started Fetch Public Relations, we noticed a disconnect in the expected result of PR and the actual deliverable.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Practically this means that you’ll outsource (most likely off-shore) your design and development, you’ll rent your servers, you won’t have an office and you’ll have no salary. No salaries, at first, but we did a lot ourselves and then did a lot as trade and/or on an advertising basis.

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Yair Margolin: I was a member of the core team at Peerapp in 2003, a supplier of caching solutions for ISPs. It’s usually hard to figure out who to meet and there’s a range of events within the events, entertainment cocktails, Pr events in restaurants nearby, but there’s no easy way to find out about them.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Options and future value are great ‘add ons’ but not for a welfare check salary until ‘this great idea makes it.’ also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea. As Seth said, the first meebo idea he came up with was in 2003.

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