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.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Call it facts for hire. It would be a bit like the hired gun in the old west, but more suited for today’s times. Hiring The Right Candidate.

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Technical Review Technology Product CTO Hire 175

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about gender equity in the high-tech and entrepreneurship worlds lately. After all, if you already have an all-male startup, you’re already at a disadvantage when it comes to hiring the very women that could fix that imbalance. Beyond hiring, our actual work process matters, too.

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San Francisco Lean Sweden Continuous Deployment 167

www.instigatorblog.com

MARCH 2, 2010

I hadn’t really thought of it that way before, but there’s a certain comfort in thinking about having a team of people you can lean on for advice, help, questions, support, etc. This is typically done with a small piece of equity. Why wouldn’t you? But I suspect that’s often done for name brand and recognition.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Hire everyone you need as an employee. We started our online backup company with five in 2008, and all five are still running the company today. Shoulder – not to cry on, but to lean on. Your company needs to be worth three times more for your equity to be worth the same. One” – You have to have a cofounder.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Kenya Dilution 143

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

42:07) On how the 2008 financial crisis prepared banks for the pandemic. (44:25) 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. If you lean in and understand this is a brilliant time to play offense.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He is willing to give up 33% of equity for this $1 million investment. I feel that it is not at all necessary to give this much equity up at this stage of the game. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. Today, he sees the opportunity to do a cloud capacity planning company.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He is willing to give up 33% of equity for this $1 million investment. I feel that it is not at all necessary to give this much equity up at this stage of the game. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. Today, he sees the opportunity to do a cloud capacity planning company.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. And I hired a COO, Belinda Johnson , and she said, “No, if people don’t like you, you should meet with them.” That was totally counterintuitive. And I said, “Why?” So we’re going to do debt.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Hosting Rhode Island Design 69

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Post-Mortem Title : My eHarmony for Hiring Failure. Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with a large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). Hiring was a challenge we found difficult throughout the life of our Company.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. And I hired a COO, Belinda Johnson , and she said, “No, if people don’t like you, you should meet with them.” That was totally counterintuitive. And I said, “Why?” So we’re going to do debt.

Silicon Valley 36

Silicon Valley Hosting Rhode Island Design 36

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Then in 2008, he had a revelation from his experience on the Penn endowment board about how to democratize investing advice and “accidentally” founded a new company to do it. Andy and I will be having a fireside chat at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October. He’s currently the CEO of the company. That's not it at all.

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Silicon Valley Lean Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 159

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 10, 2016

So when we elected a "tough on crime" Republican Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, that cemented my Republican leanings. I also didn't remember that he, not Giuliani, hired Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. It would have been a lot less likely that this person could have had the connections to find and hire a top lawyer. not poor people.

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Kuwait Community New York City Technical Review 60