Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

January 2009 where he said in a column on Tax Cuts for Teachers : “One of the smartest stimulus moves we could make would be to eliminate federal income taxes on all public schoolteachers so more talented people would choose these careers. He covered the topic again in June 2009 titled Invent, Invent, Invent. Crazy, huh?

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

due to inflation, salary increases) to maintain margin in an environment of downward pressure on prices. In 2009 the organization moved to a run-rate methodology, which monitors spending quarter-over-quarter. Managers look at numbers at a higher level than before.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

I would argue that the shut-down of September 2009 was equally severe yet there are signs that this “VC Ice Age” has begun to thaw. It helped me avoid chasing deals (and a house) in 2007/08 and it led to GRP’s fastest pace of investment in many years in the first three quarters of 2009 at a time when many others weren’t investing.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Although most aren’t in a place to be startup cofounders for financial reasons, I now have access to a large talent pool once I can offer a salary. Many of us have said we’d love to work with one another again. With all the funded startups that are unable to hire, that’s a huge ace up my sleeve.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 1, 2010

To the right of that are five charts one each for: Current Equity Equity at Hire Base Salary Target Bonus Actual Total Cash Each of these bar charts shows the respective compensation for the management team on a percentile scale (compared to the cohort). Bookmark the permalink.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Many will say “it’s going to be another 2009 vintage!” Startup salaries — especially on the engineering side — are at near record highs. In 2009, according to some old Payscale data I dug up, that number was $90,000. In 2009, according to some old Payscale data I dug up, that number was $90,000. This surprises nobody.

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Board Effect

APRIL 18, 2022

More United Kingdom workers quit their jobs in 2021 than numbers dating back to 2009. Many of them may be switching to industries such as IT, law, human resources, life sciences, mining, and finance, as these industries are apt to pay higher salaries. Just offering big budget salaries isn’t cutting it anymore,” she said.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

By the way, the salary, which was a good salary, was $27,000 entry salary, and engineers were paid $31,000 to $35,000. [00:10:30] Be an intern” And by the way, this is 2009. You remember what 2009 was like, right? They paid engineers $4,000 more entry-point. 00:10:30] DEREK: So that was significant.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

Sweat equity or salary? We engineers know that need to be agile in a startup and be able to scrap code and rebuild, but want we don’t want is to have a founder who manic or aimless. Contrary to the way we carry ourselves we’re not robots (although I do enjoy being called a machine - but I’m not Summer Glau).

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 25, 2012

While the company is now profitable and its seven founders are getting paid salaries, that wasn't always the case. Incorporated in April 2007, over the course of two years - from June 2007 to September 2009 - the founders invested $185,000 of capital in the company, in the form of loans. But those were equity purchases.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. Almost all of it is in one giant fixed-cost bucket: salaries. January 21, 2009 6:39 AM Kevin Merritt said. January 21, 2009 1:19 PM Jon Bischke said.

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fi.co

DECEMBER 4, 2012

"I was asked a question last week about co-founder compensation - specifically about guidance around splitting equity and salary requirements for the early contributors of a new startup. Will you work for the same salary? Copyright 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 - Founder Institute, Incorporated - All rights reserved. Terms of Use |.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) We either had to triple down and raise another fund (with which you have fees to pay for offices & salaries) or move to a different model. My good friend Adam Lilling and I started Launchpad more than 5 years ago . See point one!

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Altgate

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

For one, the base salaries and total compensation for non-founder executives, which had grown at a 5% CAGR for the past 9 years, screeched to a halt and had nearly zero growth (for Tech companies). The 2009 CompStudy website has lots of little gems like this one. Below is another interesting chart on founder equity for tech companies.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

Size of the online gambling market from 2009 to 2020 (in billion U.S. The salaries of the team will range from 200,000 dollars to 300,000 dollars depending on the company’s selection of staff. This factor serves as the biggest motivator to establishing an online casino. Source: Statista.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

Thursday, January 22, 2009. However, it does not mention whether there is a base salary associated with the plan and if so what it is. Id appreciate any comments on how this would change as a base salary is added to the mix. I would also love to know more about your thoughts of how Base salary gets baked into the OTE plan.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2015

Your salary history. . Sometimes, job applications will pose questions about your previous salaries. It’s a common trick for applicants to boost their salary figures a bit, simply to give themselves a bit of extra power when it comes to negotiating a starting salary for a new job. Other background information.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The irony of Bray’s argument is of course that Android – the part of Google that pays his salary, is also Java-based (well, pending the outcome of the Oracle suit anyway ) and extremely innovative. A 59% increase in bobs since January 2009? Not bad for a dead technology.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The irony of Bray’s argument is of course that Android – the part of Google that pays his salary, is also Java-based (well, pending the outcome of the Oracle suit anyway ) and extremely innovative. A 59% increase in bobs since January 2009? Not bad for a dead technology.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Between 2009 and 2013, 60% of the jobs created were from small businesses. Commit to finding the resources to get the help you need, so you can quit your day job, pay yourself a salary, and give your business a chance to thrive. Yet too many entrepreneurs think of their businesses as outside the traditional funding model.

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Life Beyond Code

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

They forget that they are “already&# getting paid a salary for the their contribution and the employer provides a framework for them to grow. Dec 26, 2009). Thinking the employer alone is responsible for career growth : Sometimes people think that the employer is “obligated&# to take care of their career growth.

Affiliate 119

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator , who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. couldn’t draw a salary). The latter was fine by me since there was no money in the company for me to draw a salary any way. I formed SneakerLabs, Inc.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System Posted on March 29, 2009 by steveblank This is post II of how I came to write “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley “ 1974. Reply Calvin Chin , on April 3, 2009 at 4:21 pm Said: Great war stories, Steve. The Vietnam war was winding down. In the Air Force?

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

The first time we hired partners for Kibin was way back in late 2009. Do you have any idea how sweet that salary will taste to them? Any reasonable founder salary I pay myself (I’m ball-parking $70k… maybe a bit less) will already be a higher salary than I’ve ever earned in my life. ← Previous.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

When you attend an event to find a programmer, you are competing against many others in the same boat, and you are competing against companies offering very high salaries. You need to make them confident enough to choose a lower salary and bet on equity over a much higher salary with a larger company. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts for SaaS companies planning their 2009 budget. ► 2009. (9). Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Thursday, November 13, 2008. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare? Is Government a good idea?

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Software By Rob

JULY 16, 2009

It’s an in-depth look at the process of moving from a salaried position into entrepreneurship. July 16th, 2009 | Cool News, Links & Reviews , Micropreneurship Building your startup? The release date is July 20, but you can pre-order your copy today. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

You’ll learn about applicant job histories from resumes and job interviews, but by doing a past employment check, you can figure out if your prospective employee is lying to you about job titles, employment dates, salaries, circumstances of departure, and more. He is the lead author and editor for Backgroundchecks.com.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Instead of being able to justify a somewhat fixed salaried workday, you find yourself working longer and longer hours as client demands increase. In addition, freelance development requires a lot more mental energy than being a salaried employee. September 29th, 2009 | Software Development Building your startup?

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Posted on November 14, 2009 by Travis Biziorek. That being said the following is available to the right candidate: • 3-5% equity in the company (based on experience). • $50,000/year salary once we obtain funding (target: January, 2010). Hi D, Gosh, this post was way back in late 2009. Skip to primary content. Post navigation.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2016

By 2009, the year I published my first book, the concept of self-publishing as it looks today was just getting started. Is it the salary I made before? Vanity publishing used to mean lots of money out the door and lots of unsold books sitting in a garage. Do I have benefits someone else pays for? Of course not. You bet it is.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

To compute the cost to acquire a customer, CAC, you would take your entire cost of sales and marketing over a given period, including salaries and other headcount related expenses, and divide it by the number of customers that you acquired in that period. (In As shown in the model, this has a huge impact on cost of customer acquisition.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Homebrew pays me a salary less than I earned in 2001 but definitely have the potential to make substantial returns in profit sharing if we do well. Oh, and any time I write about compensation, I link back to Mark Suster’s great 2009 post: Time to Learn vs Time to Earn.' Let me be clear, I’m not claiming poverty.

Cap Table 99

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Voluntary salary reduction program. Ive also used the voluntary salary reduction tool - its particularly useful as a way to get passionate employees who dont have a lot of personal expenses to buy into the mission of the company at a deep level. Selling is an honorable profession. Everyone from the receptionist to engineers is selling.

Lean 121

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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. Many of us suffered in the 2000–2002 dotcom crash and/or the 2007–2009 Great Recession; others hardly noticed a blip.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 17, 2010

Penelope Trunk writes about this here : “I mean, who is being protected by secret salaries? Certainly not the employee—the more transparent salaries are, the more accurately an employee can assess his or her value to a company. The only people who benefit from secret salaries is the human resources department. No one will know.

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