2004 Employee Equity Founder 
ConversionXL
JANUARY 18, 2022
He was swiftly followed by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic in 2004. At a startup, this can be as simple as defining why the founder started the company in the first place. CXL’s founder, Peep Laja, has a specific “reason why” his company Wynter exists. In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. The solution: build a brand.
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. 5) High Productivity: Kayak had 148 employees at the end of 2010.
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Hunter Walker
AUGUST 24, 2014
When Google went public in August of 2004 one of the first things I did with my employee grants was sell enough to pay off my student loans. It’s for reasons like these that I support getting startup founders some liquidity during their company’s first few years, perhaps as early as Series A financing when appropriate.
Hearpreneur
JUNE 4, 2021
And that’s how I started my private equity business where I acquire both online and offline assets such as lead generation websites and physical real estate. I don't think I'm cut out to being an employee. I got my start when I was young—as an eBay Powerseller—and I eventually moved on to building a thriving marketing agency.
Gust
NOVEMBER 4, 2011
In brief, a cap acts to place a limit on the conversion price of a convertible note such that investors are guaranteed a minimum number of shares for their bridge loans if the startup does a priced equity round at a high pre-money valuation – “high” meaning above the cap, which is often a heavily negotiated term. (The
David Teten
APRIL 1, 2011
I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 10, 2010
Michael is a very accomplished corporate executive in his own right having run Sega Gameworks and helped IPO EuroDisney as well as having been on the founding team of DreamWorks SKG (where he helped them raise their first $900 million in equity). million from Trinity Ventures, Founder Collective, Highline Ventures, NextNew Ventures.
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