Altgate

OCTOBER 1, 2010

The idea behind the Scorecard is to provide a comprehensive benchmark for the management team of a particular company compared to it’s specific peer group. This not only gives an idea of the “cash-equity&# trade off for this company, but also how that trade off compares to peer companies. What would you change or add?

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Part-Time VPE Startup Salary Equity 39

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. the 1990s.

Private Equity 68

Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Trilegiant Corporation , (who is owned by Avis Budget Group (yes, that Avis & Budget), in turn owned by the private equity group Apollo Management ) does business as PrivacyGuard and has engaged in the most unethical of business practices I have come across in years. Or again here in Consumer Affairs dating back to 2005.

Direct Marketing 263

Direct Marketing Private Equity Sacramento Marketing 263

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Another company which is going to have widespread impact is eShares, eShares is going to change the way the private companies manage their equity. That company merged with another company in Boston and grew to about 80 people and was acquired in 2005. VN : What do you look for in companies that you put money in?

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Early Stage Portfolio Software Engineering 48

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

You can read it in VCs discussions about hedge fund managers, activist investors or the need to have dual-share voting structures. The truth is that the brutal reality of public markets is that they self correct much more quickly than our shitty little private equity illiquid corner of the universe. Some companies have to go first.

Burn Rate 150

Burn Rate San Francisco Private Equity LP 150

Hearpreneur

JULY 2, 2016

Jay-Z’s personal brand has been so well crafted and marketed that his brand equity has earned him partnerships and business ventures well beyond the realm of music. And, at the heart of it, the key to managing my professional and personal life all boiled down to staying grounded and finding a balance. Don’t settle.

Phoenix 87

Phoenix Entrepreneur China Differentiation 87

Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Organizations demonstrate their commitment to ESG for nonprofits, in part, by how they manage relationships with employees, vendors, and others. In the 1970s, shareholders protested against apartheid in South Africa by withdrawing their equity from companies in that country.

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South Africa Government Africa Institutional Investors 76

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

No, the heart of the “find the next Facebook” challenge is that the vast majority of investors are either too poor or - more interestingly - too rich to even consider an investment like Peter Thiel’s $250,000 into Facebook in 2005. And, of course early-stage private equity investing requires heaping platefuls of courage and guts.

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Silicon Valley Private Equity Early Stage Equity 78

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

For example, you can barter for a service or you can negotiate payment terms or even equity for service. Having managed a lot of software development both local and offshore, this is a topic I plan to write more on. To that I say baloney. Even without cash you have many ways to outsource. You can often pursue a hybrid solution.

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

This is what brings us to the second big difference: the cost of Applied Venture is too large to finance from a standard VC management fee. . Different funds finance the cost of these teams with a differing weighting of asking portfolio companies to pay for services, larger than normal management fees, and reduced compensation for partners.

Portfolio 84

Portfolio LP Venture Capital Partner 84

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. management, founders, angel investors) get any money. Deal with the small ownership allotted to management. If you want to raise venture capital more easily the advice could be quite practical and counter-intuitive.

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Venture Capital Liquidation Preference Common Stock Dividend 289

David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. Kupietzky held a variety of management roles in marketing, sales and product management at world-class technology companies: Digital Insight (Intuit), Loudcloud/Opsware (Hewlett-Packard) and Siebel Systems (Oracle).

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Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

Altgate

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Lastly, once you have this framework in place, make sure to benchmark your salary, bonus and equity for each position in your company using CompStudy data which allows you to narrowly focus on companies that meet your profile and the executive position in question.

Venture Capital 47

Venture Capital Metrics Startup Software Review 47

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Or, as my friend Marc Andreessen might say, Software Eats the Private Equity World. While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 19, 2012

Manager update. We see our LPs relatively infrequently; they each look after interests in a large number of venture capital and private equity funds, and they occasionally shift responsibility for looking after our fund to new people, so we always begin by reminding them of who we are, why we are special, and our investment strategy.

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LP Europe Portfolio Private Equity 97

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

But when the finally convert the debt to equity the round gets filed with the SEC and thus journalists often pick up on it. AdReady – Develops software tools and management platform that assists content publishers and ad agencies with the creation of display ads. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA.

Stealth 285

Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

Austin Startup

JUNE 19, 2018

He instinctively knew that with a little flexibility and autonomy the right women would manage a baby and a promotion just fine. Geoffrey passed away on November 17, 2005, but to this day I use the lessons and inspirations from him daily. She is also the Managing Partner/President of Linden Venture Fund. No big deal.

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Ukraine Pennsylvania China Austin 48

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

He’s been at it since 2005. The VCs basically have liquidity in management fees along the way, in the sense they get paid decently along the way. But the day after you’ll wake up and see yourself more as a manager than an owner. We managed the business because we felt responsible since we raised money.

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Founder Liquidation Preference Term Sheet Participating Preferred 329

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011).

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 2, 2017

That means legit SEO companies have become web designers, social media strategists, reputation managers and yes, content marketers. Again, just the review equity from this alone make podcast guesting worth it. Most SEO services have moved back onshore and “real” SEO is now an integrated part of holistic marketing. Oh yeah, Sales !

Kansas City 58

Kansas City Kansas SEO Marketing 58

The Equity Kicker

APRIL 13, 2017

If I was to pick a watershed moment in the emergence of ‘entrepreneurship as a science’ it would be the publication of Steve Blank’s Four Steps to the Epiphany in 2005. OKRs for managing objectives). It’s not the easiest read, but for the first time founders had a playbook they could follow.

Lean 90

Lean Startup Silicon Valley Venture Capital 90

Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

In fact, for a good laugh, I just went back and checked our accounting system, and at the end of one quarter in 2005, we were down to $143 cash on the balance sheet. Anonymizer raised a small amount of equity and was able to build a business that became very profitable.

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San Jose Angel Investor Venture Capital Balance Sheet 28

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 3, 2020

In 2005 Vagnozzi put together 30 investors to pool $1M and fund the development of 110 acres in Montgomery County. When he hired property managers, they ended up taking the majority of his profits. The entrepreneur in him started to flourish. Good Investment Advisors and Good Investments.

New York City 106

New York City Marketing Technical Review New York 106

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. These kinds of connections seldom emerge from middle management who view the immediate threats more than the long-run benefits. No Dave S. = I have done the same.

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Seattle Silicon Valley Technical Review Los Angeles 317

Altgate

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

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.

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Startup Venture Capital Equity California 28

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans). And this is a company that has managed to get an A+ list of investors and is executing very well. offering to invest $75K if we could find another $250K by September 30, 2005.

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

All of a sudden, you need to focus on a different set of challenges and concerns like establishing standard procedures and managing a large number of employees. They need to be passionate about leadership, management, and organizational processes as the company scales. Ask yourself, “What am I focused on? What am I world-class at?

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Founder Hiring Cofounder Hawaii 78

Altgate

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Over nearly 50 years, Madoff built a trading and asset management powerhouse…apparently on a foundation of shifting sands. According to the SEC complaint: “…investors’ losses came from the firm’s asset-management arm, which Mr. Madoff ran on a separate floor of the firm’s offices. Come again?

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SEC Boston Nashville Illinois 28

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. And I remember, we set up a war room that we managed, we met twice a day. And I remember listening to the district manager in New Orleans going, "This is."

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148

Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

What I can tell you is that total private equity assets under management was reported as $2.5 UPDATE 1 : A few people have asked me if I have any data on an impending collapse of the VC ecosystem or if this is all anecdotal. As I mentioned earlier, these are all private companies so data is hard to come by.

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Later Stage Early Stage Venture Capital Portfolio 34

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Poor Investor Management As a founder, you have to manage your investors. How hard you have to work on managing investors usually depends onhow much money youve taken. In the first batch of startups we funded, in the summerof 2005, most of the founders spent all their time building theirapplications.

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Startup Software Review Hiring Detroit 108

www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It’s pretty difficult to go out of business when you have money in the bank (amazingly enough, it appears GM may somehow manage this feat). There’s a missing myth #0: “If my company is successful and I’m making a good salary and my equity is worth millions, I will be happy.&#

Software Review 40

Software Review Software Startup Massachusetts 40

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2010

It is said to be a private equity round and at this stage it is unclear if previous investors will be allowed to participate (or just get diluted). PrimeSense was founded in 2005 by Aviad Meizlos, Ofir Sharon, Dmitri Reiss, Alex Shpunt and Tamir Berliner. Ynon Beracha serves as the company’s CEO.

Private Equity 111

Private Equity Dilution Valuation Differentiation 111

Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

It was early in 2005 and the company was Facebook. It could come back and hit you in the face during a deposition Make sure that your co-founders have the right skills and commitment before doling out equity. If there are any promises (written, verbal or otherwise) regarding equity, address early rather than later. Steve Bennet.

Social Network 28

Social Network Networking Software Review San Jose 28

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. And if trouble withinvestors is one of the biggest threats to a startup, managing themis one of the most important skills founders need to learn. The fund managers, who are called"general partners," get about 2% of the fund annually as a managementfee, plus about 20% of the funds gains.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Maybe you can be the project manager and team up with someone else who is a prgrammer. the meebo that launched in 2005 was a group effort – the idea primarily came from sandy being a huge IMer and having trouble getting on IM when we were working on earlier ideas in elaine’s apartment! how did you guys manage through that?

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

ConversionXL

JULY 13, 2016

The Halo Effect has a wide breadth of uses, reaching areas like management, design, copywriting, advertising, and of course, A/B testing and conversion optimization strategy. A similar variation of the brand equity effect is when a product does really well, it makes the rest of a company’s catalog look attractive as well.

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Advertising Restful Design Houston 48