Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

They take common stock, not preferred, a fact that the entrepreneurs mentioned to me many times. And do your customer development. These quotes are, as is my custom, straight from twitter. Im also excited to share two long-form reviews from actual attendees.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Lean 113

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. None of this was law, and nothing in writing required this; this was just how these firms did business to protect their large institutional customers who would buy the stock. This seems to be occurring more and more. Why do these founders get to stay around?

Founder 274

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 274

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Custom work doesnt scale. An advantage of consulting, as a way to develop a product, is thatyou know youre making something at least one customer wants.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76