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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

For three decades (1978-2008), investors controlled the board. The founders along with all the other employees would vest their stock over 4 years (earning 1/48 a month). Some founders have three-year vesting. . — all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. Board Control. Some have no cliff.

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Is Dead Equity Crippling Your Company?

Altgate

We analyzed the dead-equity data from a total of 733 tech startups: 257 from our 2008 survey and 476 from the 2011 survey. The graph below compares the value of dead equity in 2008 and 2011. On average, the value of dead equity in these technology startups tripled between 2008 and 2011, from $480,000 to more than $1.5

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Entreprenuer Network

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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Be Shareable

YoungUpstarts

From around 2008 until 2015, as the internet gained users by the hundreds of millions, viral videos were all the rage. The idea that a creature so small could spread so quickly to so many people was very powerful, and when small videos started spreading like wildfire, the term was simply adopted, and it stuck. This is so cool!

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Is Dead Equity Crippling Your Company?

Altgate

We analyzed the dead-equity data from a total of 733 tech startups: 257 from our 2008 survey and 476 from the 2011 survey. The graph below compares the value of dead equity in 2008 and 2011. On average, the value of dead equity in these technology startups tripled between 2008 and 2011, from $480,000 to more than $1.5

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European Real Estate in 2020: Cooling or Continued Growth?

The Startup Magazine

Although the “ yellow vest ” crisis made the consumer confidence recover slower, house price growth is expected to accelerate to 3.6% Going through a slow economic recovery did not stop the Greek housing market to rebound from the battered levels seen during the 2008 financial crisis. on a yearly basis. in 2020, up from 3.2%

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Building a sweat equity team

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

Im confident that this business will be able to compensate these two additional principles along the way, after initial risk of investing their time, and will later reward their vesting with an exit strategy. Cheers -- Mark Mark Walsen Friday, October 10, 2008 Deleting … Approving … > The challenge here is.