rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. and services, recognize that you can get help from consultants and part-timers.

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fi.co

DECEMBER 4, 2012

In a post on his blog , Dave Parker, Co-Founder and CEO of Bundled.com and Director of the Seattle Founder Institute , explains why spiltting equity 50/50 amongst co-founders is almost never the right answer, because each co-founder will have their own expectations, commitment, and goals regarding the startup. Compensation and outcomes.

Cofounder 43

Cofounder Founder Silicon Valley San Diego 43

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). under $500K).

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Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

thebarefootvc

MARCH 4, 2022

Since its debut in 2009, Bitcoin has been heralded as a self-sovereign alternative to government controlled fiat. With rapid global moves in response to this crisis, and highly volatile global equity markets, Bitcoin over the past days has decoupled from these markets to become a “risk off” asset.

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Ukraine Russia Venezuela Global 45

prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Malaysia tried but there simply wasn’t enough liquidity, or institutional demand. As a result, most people in Malaysia are not familiar with stock options or equity participation. Nor does it have the equivalent of a successful tech-based exchange like the Nasdaq. Companies 8 comment(s) | 3388 view(s) Hello World!

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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.

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Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

They’re looking to be paid properly in the context of the overall salary structure, including cash, benefits, and equity, and to be paid commensurate with performance. Is there a development step that you must take to fulfill demand for a particular use case, and, if so, how does that cost get absorbed? Are the logistics manageable?

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

Growthink Blog

JUNE 25, 2014

As detailed last week , since March 2009 the S&P index has almost tripled, while real estate prices are up 10.5% In the real world however, prices are determined by supply and demand. Political instability, corruption, immature financial systems and securities laws close off private equity-type investments close to home.

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South America Marketing Private Equity Russia 81

www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Apache with Django and mod_wsgi » Posted by Aidan, 6 th July 2009. Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The laws of supply and demand, and marginal pricing, withstand the test of time. Demand matters: IPOs are a bull market product Gauging demand for an IPO can be difficult, in part because so many IPO order books are over-subscribed. The tl;dr: It’s Economics 101. So, what happens when we combine the data from the two charts?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This time by the efforts of Adeo Ressi to introduce a new kind of structure called “ convertible equity.” My initial reaction to Adeo when we spoke was that while it may have solved some issues (debt versus equity) it didn’t solve the ones that I’ve been warning entrepreneurs about most loudly.

Ratchet 354

Ratchet Liquidation Preference Equity Stock 354

99u.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Founded in 2009, the 99U takes its name from Thomas Edisons famous. It is best to have a contract that covers details regarding any form of equity grant or compensation as well as whether or not expenses are reimbursed. How to Power Through Any Demanding Task. Its not about ideas. Its about making ideas happen.

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Turkey Dilution Portfolio Exit Strategy 40

Start Up Blog

JULY 25, 2010

In April 2009, a federal judge upheld the $100 million jury verdict that essentially gave Mattel ownership of the billion dollar plus Bratz brand. As I’ve always said on Startup blog ideas are near worthless when it comes to building brand equity. It’s my favourite court ruling in a long time.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 7, 2015

And then there is simple supply and demand -- all the “safe” world currencies (Euro, Yen, Pound) sport extraordinarily low rates too so there is no “currency flight” pressure to drive tightening. trillion in 2013, both a new record and up more than $700 billion since 2009. Technology Leads the World. And new wealth created.

Balance Sheet 48

Balance Sheet Private Equity Venture Capital .Net 48

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

The idea at the center of his real estate revolution is “shared equity,” a concept he devised after years of research and international travel. The abstract version of markets, the one in which they flawlessly create supply to match demand and precisely set prices, is not reflective of the way markets often work in the real economy.

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North America Equity America Singapore 122

Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

Hundreds and hundreds of tweets, re-tweets, likes, Hacker News upvotes, email responses…it was immediately obvious that there is pent up demand for this kind of alternative early-stage startup funding. And in exchange for this $6k-$18k and mentorship, YC asked for 7% equity. The response was overwhelming. Previously On.TinySeed.

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Early Stage Valuation Seed Capital Revenue 46

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

It is what Seed used to be from 2009-2013, until the Seed rounds got fat and bloated and the bar for raising a Seed round became a lot higher. Unless every aspect of product development is covered by founders who are only receiving equity, there are other parts of building a product that will require hiring highly qualified people.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

Thursday, January 22, 2009. If you assume a 20% cost of capital (typical for equity, debt is generally cheaper), then getting an upfront payment for one additional year on a $10k MRR contract saves you $24k. ▼ 2009. (9). Cracking The Code. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Ajay Mathur. ► 03/07 - 03/14. (1).

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Software Review Clawback Sales Salary 91

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

I was proud of my performance and our rocket ship trajectory, but internal politics and personalities led to a division between the owner, me and a third equity partner. I started on a journey of self-discovery in 2009 when my marriage of 13 years took a turn in an unlikely direction. In 18 months, we grew from $0 to $3M.

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Entrepreneur Australia Software Review LLC 48

The Equity Kicker

APRIL 13, 2012

We have protected Google from outside pressures and the temptation to sacrifice future opportunities to meet short-term demands. These non-voting shares will be available for corporate uses, like equity-based employee compensation, that might otherwise dilute our governance structure.

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Dilution Stock Government SEC 87

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years.

Silicon Valley 332

Silicon Valley IP Dividend Finance 332

Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

equity capital markets for emerging growth companies with market capitalizations below $500 million are structurally broken and systemically dysfunctional. equity capital markets for emerging growth companies are not the current revenues of companies filing to go public or their current profitability levels—the core problems for U.S.

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IPO Term Sheet Marketing United States 31

Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

Such market power allows bankers to shapes the profile of those companies worthy of going public to favor the natural demand from their largest clients: short-term trading focused hedge funds and large institutional investors that demand highly liquid public securities. jobs today. Mergers trigger job losses; IPO’s create jobs.

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IPO Merger Institutional Investors Venture Capital 40

www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

If the answer is, “Scaling fast enough for our anticipated demand,” try not to laugh. Lots of people join start-ups for equity, minimal (if any) salaries, in the hopes that their dedication and hard work will propel the company forward into something great. The right answer is, “We’re a startup.

Software Review 68

Software Review Startup Post-Money Valuation Technical Review 68

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

On the other side, he has advertisers like P&G, Ford and Coca Cola demanding more sophisticated targeting and effectiveness for their incremental ad dollars - no longer accepting the old way of doing business over a three martini lunch. with the likes of digitalArbor )?

Acquisition 28

Acquisition Advertising Demand Equity 28

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Whether you buy this or not for public equities, the market for early stage private companies has always been wildly inefficient. billion in 2009, which matches the amount invested by VCs. While the supply-demand equation will never be completely fixed, the information and accessibility to angel investors is only getting better.

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Angel Investor Angel Groups San Jose Venture Capital 28

VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

V iola Private Equity , an Israeli PE fund with $164 million under management for technology buyouts, has announced a $7 million investment in Zend , the leading provider of open-source and commercial solutions based on PHP web applications. Watch this space.

Private Equity 87

Private Equity Equity PHP 87

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

As you can see below, investments have skyrocketed – up 300% since 2009. The Laws of Supply & Demand. The most basic chart of microeconomics is a supply & demand curve. Demand represents a buyer and supply a seller. Other products “elastic” meaning demand falls off quickly when prices go up.

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Valuation Down Round Startup Later Stage 150

Agile VC

JULY 24, 2013

Or to focus solely on getting the lowest valuation as an investor, which by definition will price you out of the most desirable companies which typically have substantial demand for their equity. Or to invest in mediocre startups at a low valuation but hope to “manage” this portfolio to better than expected outcomes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. Metrics: 50mm users (up from 40mm in Dec 2009), -Competition includes: Spotify , Last.fm. Read more: TechCrunch.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

We were going to do that by turning marketing into a machine to generate end user demand, drive the that demand into our sales channels, and educate our sales channels. Reply hackrnews hacker , on May 4, 2009 at 8:29 am Said: Isn’t google a perfect example of a “going out of business&# strategy?

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Silicon Valley RSS Non-Compete California 126

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. We so often see good ideas, without a good understanding of customer demand (reason number 2).

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Jody self-funded the company and worked from his spare bedroom in February 2009. It could be a bubble or better balance of supply and demand. To conclude, I note that we’re all in the same ecosystem (angels, seed, VC, growth equity, IPOs) and should view each other as collaborative even though we sometimes compete.

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Valuation Deal Flow Lead Investor Cofounder 292

Altgate

MARCH 16, 2009

 However, apparently it is not unusual for investors to demand side letters that confer much of the rights customary in a typical US preferred security, effectively creating a "synthetic preferred stock." "  I wonder if these have been tested in any courts…anyone had personal insight into that?

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Global India United Kingdom 28

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tweet View Comments Guest Author Sep 20, 2009 This guest post was written by Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg. This resulted in a recapitilization of the equity away from 33% each (in my favor) and then the ultimate dismissal of one of the co-founders prior to the A-round. How To Get There. Seriously mean it too. I am like dude WTF.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

However, as most entrepreneurs will experience, when equity and pay come into play, relationships tend to warp. I’ve blogged about them since 2009 and so many of the companies I’ve featured have come and gone. 29- Charge for my demanded free services. Photo Credit: Sebastian Ravitz. 17- To help start-ups.

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Entrepreneur Czech Republic Retention B2C 114

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In later posts I’ll get more specific on how to figure out if the folks you’re meeting are the right people to work with, and also how to deal with issues like splitting equity and paying yourselves before raising funding. link] links for 2009-10-12 at DeStructUred Blog [.] October 19, 2009 [link] [.]

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Cofounder Founder Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder 66