2004 Equity Operations Silicon Valley 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital. What this meant for entrepreneurs and VCs was a bit more complex– the IPO market was all but closed (with the Google IPO in 2004 as a brilliant exception), but it was possible find a buyer for your company. Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.)
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 19, 2011
He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank.
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Agile VC
APRIL 17, 2011
Founding Date: 2004. 2010 Operating Income: $16 million. Obviously most of these employees are working hard primarily for equity upside compensation, but Kayak’s personnel costs are roughly $200K/head so the company is highly productive on a per employee basis. round closed in June 2004. Series A Preferred.
500hats.com
AUGUST 2, 2012
Or, as my friend Marc Andreessen might say, Software Eats the Private Equity World. note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). While institutional LPs know big changes are happening, most focus too much on 1) increasing/decreasing fund size or 2) marketing + branding as the major trends.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 31, 2011
I came back to India , in 2004. It’s a dramatic shift from how things were in 2004. Initially quite a number of companies were heavily influenced by the west, especially Silicon Valley. We communicated with Anand who kindly shared with us his thoughts on the start-up scene in India. Catch what he has to say below.
Agile VC
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
I’ll focus for now on the business itself, there’s plenty of other info on the web if you care to understand the equity ownership or financing history of Facebook and frankly this has been fairly well known for awhile. ==. Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. Facebook, Inc. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA.
www.chubbybrain.com
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
Like Edison and the lightbulb, like Gates and the pc operating system, I would launch a revolution that would transform society while bringing me wealth and fame. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders. Title: Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure.
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