Up and Running
DECEMBER 1, 2015
In 2005, David Choe was invited to paint a number of murals at Facebook’s HQ in Palo Alto. Of course, not every equity compensation story is a David Choe Story. If you’re thinking about extending equity to an employee or a vendor (as in the example above), you should know that the topic is multi-faceted. We’ll be happy to help.
genylabs.typepad.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Member since 01/2005. Working for Equity Instead of Cash. has an article on service firms waiving their fees and instead taking equity in their clients. Interest in this waned when the Internet bust resulted in most tech start-up equity becoming worthless, but it seems to be coming back. Blog powered by TypePad.
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Growthink Blog
JANUARY 19, 2014
In 2005, GoDaddy.com became the world’s largest ICANN-accredited registrar on the internet. In 2011, 65% of the company was sold to a group of private equity firms for approximately $2.25 Lesson #4: Customer Service in Layman’s Terms GoDaddy’s customers may not always be experts at information technology.
Agile VC
APRIL 17, 2011
How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. round closed Feb 2005. Headquarters: Norwalk, CT & Concord, MA. What They Do: Travel search engine. Series B Preferred.
Altgate
OCTOBER 1, 2010
At the top left of the Scorecard you have your company information and the peer cohort inclusion criteria. There above the “key&# are two horizontal bar charts that show the total cash compensation (Cash-o-Meter) and total equity compensation (Equity-o-Meter) for the management team compared to their peer cohort.
The Equity Kicker
JULY 8, 2019
Capital is a commodity, a truism that the VC industry was largely able to ignore in the early days due to lack of capital in the market and scarcity of information for entrepreneurs. Our companies are 4x more likely to reach Series A, with a 55% higher valuation, 26% faster and with founder equity 2.3x more valuable than their peers.
The Equity Kicker
MARCH 19, 2012
My hope is that the following description of the meeting will help explain the information we request from startups and the pressures we sometimes find ourselves under which we then have to pass on to our portfolio companies. The agenda at the meeting today was similar to the usual agenda and I’ll go through each of the four items.
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