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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

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In 2010 I deconstructed the filings for GameFly and Quinstreet. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Kayak Software Corporation. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. 2010 Net Income: $8 million.

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How to pick a co-founder

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What you don’t know Business founders who don’t code use bad proxies for picking technical co-founders (&# 10 years with Java!&# ). Engineer heavy startups are common now, so doubling or tripling your development team at the outset is incredible. Reply # Melanie Curtiss · May 5, 2010 Thank you for this blog post.

Cofounder 101
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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

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Lead Engineer 0.5 - 1. 5+ years Experience Engineer 0.33 - 0.66. Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 - 0.33. Percent of the outstanding option pool: meaningless. Strike price of options: meaningless. I was originally hired as a contractor, developing a SaaS app from scratch, including DB design and coding.

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