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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

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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 Feb 2005. Pre-IPO Funding History: Kayak has raised approximately $235M in VC funding to date. as of 12/31/09).

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How to Fund a Startup

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November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. It costs you a little more equity, but being able to play the two firms off each other (as well as ask one if the other is being out of line) is invaluable. So after this the option pool is down to 13.7%). [ Want to start a startup? Apply for funding by March 3.