Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 16, 2016
Super-angel investors (micro-VCs). These terms refer to a class of professional investors who invest their own money, like angels, but have the larger resources and scope of venture capitalists with other people’s money. These deals usually come with retention packages -- so be careful. Sweat equity.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
Founders almost never have a real strategy. Founders explain failures with things like “our two main competitors did [thing] to us” or “customers didn’t understand [our point of view].” The 10,000th biggest company in the world is a very successful company, as is the two-person company where the founders each take home $300k/year.
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Up and Running
MARCH 11, 2015
This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. His blog is full of personal stories, gentle advice, and guidance that will be useful to any startup founder. He also shares his thoughts, industry trends, and where he sees the companies going, from the investor’s perspective.
Up and Running
DECEMBER 1, 2015
More often than not, equity compensation is an attraction and retention tool, rather than a replacement to salary. This type of stock is typically given to founders and early employees with the stock value is near zero. Equity compensation is when you offer your employees equity in your business (a “share” in company ownership).
Feld Thoughts
JULY 8, 2014
” Reid is well known as the co-founder of LinkedIn, a partner at Greylock, an angel investor in many successful companies including Facebook and Twitter, and one of the kingpins of the PayPal Mafia. Books casnocha employee hiring hoffman retention the alliance'
VC Cafe
AUGUST 3, 2011
Yair Goldfinger, co-founder and CTO of Dotomi and a prominent Israeli angel investor, founded Dotomi back in 2000, following the acquisition of ICQ by AOL. It raised $17 million in funding since inception from Globespan Capital, US Venture Partners, Investor Capital and Velocity.
www.mint.com
MARCH 9, 2010
However, a perfectly acceptable—and perhaps even better—answer is that there are no investors other than the founders, and the plan is to bootstrap the company as long as possible. If there are outside investors, they are likely to be on the board. These days revenue is the best source of capital. That’s cool. pat my own back).
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