Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2016

What they don’t realize is that about half the investment deals fail to close at this stage, including mergers and acquisitions , during the due-diligence process. This element is usually called technical due diligence and typically consists of a day with your engineering and marketing team led by internal team leaders.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 13, 2023

per engineer.” Especially in the early days of mobile/iOS engineering, if you hired strong technical talent into your early stage company, you basically created an acquisition outcome floor. Those who do, often believe they can hire from the open market without the hassle of an acquisition.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company. Yes, typically preferred equity. 15-20% sold per round. Volatile, uncapped. Flexible VC: Revenue -based.

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keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Engineer, arranger, communicator, amateur photographer. This time, I was looking more closely at Keen’s cap table and various financial events, like raising Series A, becoming profitable, and company acquisition. Youre reading Radical Transparency — a blog brought to you by the team at Keen IO. Michelle Wetzler.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

“It kinda sucks to be engineer #1.”. That’s what a couple of my friends – engineers at Google and Bloomberg who have been following the rise of startup culture with intrigue – told me recently. They were referring to non-founder engineers, most commonly the first hire for technology businesses. Engineer #1? N: exit size.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

20 hardware engineers getting together to form a Syndicate. Let the Syndicate handle filtering for membership – it would almost feel more like an investment club – but they would see themselves as value add angels, without the company needing to add them all individually to the cap table or hold 20 separate pitch meetings.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 20, 2015

10x, as in “10x Engineer,” is a well-trod expression used to suggest there are classes of people who are so much better than average that the results you get from them are an order of magnitude higher. ” or “A buddy told me Competitor A is talking with Google about an acquisition. You hear anything similar?”

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