Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

Your financial risks of starting most technology companies these days are so low. I’ll pay my own moving costs and if we don’t raise the fund you owe me nothing.”. I didn’t negotiate hard on carried interest. It’s lost salary for a period of time. I had nothing to lose!

Entrepreneur 293

Entrepreneur CTO Hire South America Salary 293

Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

I enjoy learning about new technologies and ideas – and you get to see a lot of them in this business especially in early stage investing. And, if you travel, those costs come from this number too. If you have an office, that cost fits in here too. 1) It is absolutely the best job in the world for me.

Salary 48

Salary Capital Call Bootstrapping Cofounder 48

Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

I enjoy learning about new technologies and ideas – and you get to see a lot of them in this business especially in early stage investing. And, if you travel, those costs come from this number too. If you have an office, that cost fits in here too. 1) It is absolutely the best job in the world for me.

Salary 48

Salary Capital Call Bootstrapping Cofounder 48

Hunter Walker

MARCH 30, 2023

Software Margins It costs money to staff support team (duh) and if you’re not showing a high margin structure you risk being penalized from an enterprise value multiple. When she asked what would I recommend my response wasn’t about getting rid of carried interest or breaking up the big companies but about customer support.

United States 67

United States Carried Interest Engineer Viral 67

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This typically has a dual purpose: generate a return on the company’s cash while also gaining insight into new startups and technologies that may be of strategic interest to the corporation. A handful of large corporations actively invest in VC funds themselves.

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This typically has a dual purpose: generate a return on the company’s cash while also gaining insight into new startups and technologies that may be of strategic interest to the corporation. A handful of large corporations actively invest in VC funds themselves.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

Similarly, I just got a pitch for a startup providing telehealth access that specialized in allergies—which I was pretty excited about until they told me that pharmaceutical companies were fronting the cost of their marketing. I was both horrified and yet not surprised at all. That was before Prop 22 passed.

Venture Capital 156

Venture Capital Cap Table Accredited Investor Silicon Valley 156