2004 Cofounder Equity Silicon Valley 
Agile VC
APRIL 17, 2011
Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. Founding Date: 2004. round closed in June 2004. Series A Preferred.
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 18, 2014
Michael Baum ( @michaelbaum ), whom I first met at LinuxWorld at in 2004, has a charismatic personality and an extraordinary track record, largely unheralded. Founder.org founder Michael Baum. In Paris today at the World Founder Forum he announced the top 10 student team winners who split $1 million in seed money prizes.
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
If a company has reached a level of success, has been around for a few years and you believe the company has potential to break out into a much bigger company then you should let the founders take money off of the table. Founders however are asked to take low salaries and never really get back the time they worked for free.
Hunter Walker
JANUARY 24, 2021
Startups Should Work To Make Their Employees Wealthy Not Just Their Founders And Investors. And when that company was acquired in late 2020 by another private party, my stock purchased in 2004 turned into cash. And when that company was acquired in late 2020 by another private party, my stock purchased in 2004 turned into cash.
Professor VC
JUNE 20, 2011
The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004. ProfessorVC.
Agile VC
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
The entire US economy was booming (in an unsustainable debt binge, in retrospect) from 2004 through much of 2008, and the tech world was booming along with it. For those who aren’t familiar, Mobius was a VC fund with offices in Silicon Valley and Boulder CO and at it’s peak Mobius had $2B+ under management.
www.chubbybrain.com
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with a large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). Company : BricaBox.
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