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.

Part-Time VPE 39

Part-Time VPE Startup Salary Equity 39

clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The number two thing is lack of a technical co-founder. Partner with a Programmer After they have their big idea, most non-technical founders set forth to find an engineer to form a partnership. To find a programmer who will simply share equity with you, you need two things. First, you need a very good pitch.

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Non-Compete RSS 40

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

How can I go about looking for a (very) good programmer willing to do this as sweat equity? You can find a technologist to join you as a partner, for half of the company’s equity. It’s common for a college student to do a sweat equity partnership with another college student. So you see my dilemma.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Fractional CTO Partner CTO Hire 40

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with a large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). Company : BricaBox.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? For example, you can barter for a service or you can negotiate payment terms or even equity for service. The best early PR is a product that people actually love plus a genuine story to tell from the founder. To that I say baloney.

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Tutorial Day At #RailsConf » Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail. Last night, I went to a local “find a co-founder” meetup for RE. What It Takes To Recruit A Technical Co-Founder. Particularly if she is at what is essentially a co-founder speed dating event.

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Technical Review Founder Software Review 40

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The number one question you all asked after reading my last blog post about starting a business from scratch was “how do I find my co-founders?&# And therein lies the problem in finding co-founders for that startup you’re dying to launch. Having trouble meeting folks you think would be good co-founders?

Cofounder 66

Cofounder Founder Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder 66

www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 23, 2012

But you can still reel in good people - if youre generous with your equity. Pinterest can hire, Square can hire, Dropbox can hire - these companies have a clear demand for their products and are becoming market leaders," explains Naval Ravikant, founder of startup advice site Venture Hacks. and tagged with. ReadWriteStart.

Hiring 49

Hiring Startup Semantic Equity 49

www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Company founders don’t have the luxury of ‘diversifying their portfolio,’ so to speak. They work at their company until funding is pulled, it goes bust, it’s sold, etc… It’s hard to be the founder at multiple companies at the same time. However, it could be more complete. 1 day ago Well, not most.

Software Review 40

Software Review Software Startup Massachusetts 40

www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Y Combinator founder Paul Graham, the influential advisor to dozens of startups like Dropbox and Airbnb , sent his entrepreneurs an email Wednesday afternoon cautioning them against taking "lowball offers"—in particular, he said, from Google Ventures. This Chart Shows Why VCs Are Willing To Give Hyped Startups Absurd Valuations.

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup Valuation Venture Capital 54

startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact Interested in an Open-Data Contest in Baltimore? These entrepreneurs are looking for a technical cofounder and that person who will build a prototype from their idea in exchange for equity in the business. Tags: startupcto. Start here. All rights reserved.

Technical Cofounder 40

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Baltimore Maryland 40

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders. Just wrote about this at [link] Dave Hanna Sorry Kameko- digital life archiving is thriving.

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

For example, we have a mailing list in Seattle called “Seattle Tech Startups&# which is a great place to find a co-founder or developer-type. In fact, that’s exactly how I ended up at Cheezburger—a friend of a friend introduced me to one of the angels who had invested, who then introduced me to the founder (who needed a CTO).

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO Developer Philadelphia Seattle 40

bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

Many capable founders aren’t developers, and I frequently meet with entrepreneurs that have taken a very different path. Development shops who work for $100+/hour and take no equity are poor partners in a startup. 5 Points: You have a development shop that will work for equity. But all that is for another post.

Hiring 40

Hiring Technical Review Agile Software Review 40

cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

link] Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » If you have an idea for a startup, talk about the idea with everyone. [.] Then again, there’s a difference between publishing a description of the idea on your website and simply announcing a name and perhaps a tag line. Dividing equity between founders » Home.

Stealth 68

Stealth Startup NDA Cofounder 68

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. To keep the equity we out-sourced.

Bootstrapping 41

Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

Altgate

APRIL 26, 2009

Basically the survey collects salary, cash bonus and equity information for the top executives in private companies (mostly venture- and preventure-backed companies). One is that company founders have a significant discount in terms of cash compensation (but obviously a premium in equity). Bookmark the permalink.

Term Sheet 60

Term Sheet Venture Capital Startup 60

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He is willing to give up 33% of equity for this $1 million investment. I feel that it is not at all necessary to give this much equity up at this stage of the game. Tags: startupcto. Today, he sees the opportunity to do a cloud capacity planning company.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

5: Raising Money : The higher your evaluation is, the more equity you have to work with. Posted by: Heather Plude | February 21, 2010 7:19 AM @John Yeng Kevin Rose is an angel investor, serial entrepreneur and the Founder of Digg and WeFollow. Stay involved in the hiring process as long as you possibly can. Beg, borrow and steal.

Entrepreneur 69

Entrepreneur Venture Capital San Francisco New Zealand 69

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He is willing to give up 33% of equity for this $1 million investment. I feel that it is not at all necessary to give this much equity up at this stage of the game. Today, he sees the opportunity to do a cloud capacity planning company. He thinks, that with $1 million in investment, he can make this business successful.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS The Option Pool Shuffle by Nivi on April 10th, 2007 “Follow the money card!&# – The Inside Man, Three-Card Shuffle Summary: Don’t let your investors determine the size of the option pool for you. Do you mean the shares go to the founders?

Option Pool 68

Option Pool Pre-Money Valuation Dilution Warrant 68

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). Below is another interesting chart on founder equity for tech companies. I’ve always found this chart amazing to me.

Startup 28

Startup Venture Capital Equity California 28

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Altgate

MARCH 4, 2009

The questions focus on cash and equity compensation for executives (about 20 titles covered) and board members and then it looks at a bunch of attributes of the executives and the company. For example, founder vs non-founder status (big difference in comp), geographic location, headcount, funding, revenue, etc.

United Kingdom 33

United Kingdom China India 33

Altgate

MAY 1, 2009

I’m a visual person so here’s how I see it: Entrepreneurs start companies and the founders (“F&# in my chart) invest capital which they grow with sweat equity and then limited partners (“LPs&# ) invest capital via VCs which in turn grows the pie to the eventual “exit&# (which comes in the form of M&A or IPOs).

Sweat Equity 28

Sweat Equity Private Equity IPO Venture Capital 28

Altgate

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Founder of New York law firm Dreier LLC bilked hedge fund investors out of nearly $400 million by selling bogus securities while impersonating other people. He is apparently the sole equity owner of this 250 attorney firm and reportedly spent $40 million on artwork hanging on the law office walls. What was this guy thinking?

SEC 28

SEC Boston Nashville Illinois 28

Altgate

JANUARY 4, 2009

We’re already starting to see layoffs at the large private equity funds where Blackstone , Carlyle and American Capital announced staff cuts between 7% and 19% in December. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Venture Capital and tagged layoffs , startup , venture capital. Bookmark the permalink.

Venture Capital 28

Venture Capital Term Sheet Private Equity Early Stage 28

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

The upperbound is obviously the total amount the founders want to raise.The lower bound is 5-10% of the total or $10,000, whicheveris greater. Similarly, founders also should not get hung up on dealterms, but should spend their time thinking about how to make thecompany good.) What makes a good founder? Bad founders seemhapless.

Angel Investor 63

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Dilution 63

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Co-founders and outsourcing work the same.

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

What I can tell you is that total private equity assets under management was reported as $2.5 Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Venture Capital and tagged collapse , economy , series B , startups , venture capital. But some will be saved. As I mentioned earlier, these are all private companies so data is hard to come by.

Later Stage 34

Later Stage Early Stage Venture Capital Portfolio 34