From 1995 to 2005, 52 percent of the Valley’s startups were founded by people born abroad. The success of Indians had me convinced that Silicon Valley was a model meritocracy. But if that's true, where are all the women? Part 2 of 5. used to think Silicon Valley was a model meritocracy. Then I moved to Berkeley, Calif., In the U.S., MORE >>

Below is another interesting chart on founder equity for tech companies. Basically it says that “all founders are not created equal.&#   If you’re the CEO and a founder, then you median equity holding is 21%, whereas if you’re CTO that number drops to 9%. I’ve always found this chart amazing to me.  MORE >>

This post is the second of a series on “unexpected lessons&# learned through my experience as co-founder and CEO of Snapvine , a venture-backed mobile social networking service founded in 2005 and acquired by WhitePages in June of 2008. The net effect was more money raised, higher valuation and the same percentage of equity sold.  MORE >>

In many cases, the consequences for not participating are significant and you can get a taste for this from the post on the term  Pay-to-Play that my partner Jason and I wrote in 2005. I was thinking more about my post from yesterday titled Addressing The VC Seed Investor Signaling Problem. In hindsight, it doesn’t address this at all. MORE >>

Basically the survey collects salary, cash bonus and equity information for the top executives in private companies (mostly venture- and preventure-backed companies). One is that company founders have a significant discount in terms of cash compensation (but obviously a premium in equity). Bookmark the permalink. MORE >>