Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Many employees forget that there isn’t even a market for startup stock, until after the company has gone public, which hasn’t happened positively to many companies in the last few years. CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5%

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2015

Many employees forget that there isn’t even a market for startup stock, until after the company has gone public, which hasn’t happened positively to many companies in the last few years. CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5%

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2017

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2010

Many employees forget that there isn’t even a market for stock, until after the company has gone public, which hasn’t happened to many companies in the last few years. Thus, stock doesn’t “pay the mortgage” today, so to speak. Your compensation is the total package, stock plus salary. 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% Marty Zwilling.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Or she could argue that the prototype is so critical to the business that she should get 50 percent of the company's stock. Being an entrepreneur is lonely, but there are better ways to make friends or build a community of credible supporters than by giving early-stage equity to people who make small contributions to your business.).

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The limited partners could put their money in the stock market, but instead, they give it to you, the venture capitalist, which is much more risky, but you’re promising them huge returns. Will : … I want to focus on impacting my community and region as much as I possibly can. Steve : Did you personally know about any of this?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. Her first startup was Bridge Communications, an early networking company that she built to more than 400 people. Estrin is somewhat down on the venture community.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Join our community. Technology | Thursdays. We had a rough time early on," says Parker, president and chief technology officer of Roving Software Inc. , Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2011

Many employees forget that there isn’t even a market for stock, until after the company has gone public, which hasn’t happened to many companies in the last few years. Thus, stock doesn’t “pay the mortgage” today, so to speak. Your compensation is the total package, stock plus salary. 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Based on the buzz it’s created in the developer community this year, we’d say it has followed through on this promise. And the Docker open-source community may be in the midst of a potentially ugly split. Quip has redesigned office-productivity software for the mobile age. MyFitnessPal.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 14, 2013

For example, I was doing a search for a VP of Engineering for a company that was building a stock-trading platform. The VP of Engineering I placed there, however, had spent his entire career leading real-time software development at successful data communications startups. Experience in financial services or a trading platform a must!”

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

So let’s take stock: What do we offer? Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). In my view, we can do a better job of forming strong tech communities. Not in my view.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 12, 2011

If you're looking to build relationships with VCs, learn from top entrepreneurs or just get deep into the NYC innovation community, I suggest you read a book. That's how I met Michael Bryzek, CTO & Co-Founder at Gilt, who was enormously helpful to one of the new tech leads in our portfolio after I introduced the two of them.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

All four companies were in Los Angeles (or adjacent … Santa Barbara) and our community has now matured and regularly produces billion dollar+ outcomes. And the third founder, Colin Kelley , remains an important contributor & CTO of the company. All three will do very well out of founding GumGum and their subsequent companies.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. But the other piece of the argument is, of course, an argument for why your company should build open source - why it should develop its technology in a community-driven, open sourced way.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 25, 2013

“[At HotelTonight], we built in lots of opportunities for people to interact, from a ping pong table and vintage video game room to lots of comfortable, casual conversation areas scattered throughout the office,” Simon says. Fully stocked options at the HotelTonight Bar. Sharing is caring.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

However, the Mac community was also very vocal, with passionate fans of their platform, and is also important to note that this community had very little love for Microsoft. Lea then began a sustained and exhausting campaign to continuously communicate with leaders and stakeholders across the entire company.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

After putting in $45,000 of his own money — a large chunk of which was an inheritance — Livingston rounded up an initial team, that included co-founder Chris Best, who is now Kik CTO, and got to work on the service. Let’s do that, and let’s prove them and the community — to whom it looked like we’d taken BBM from RIM — all wrong,” he says.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Delaware law gives preferred stock investors of a corporation certain voting rights and control over the corporation. Even though Konstantinos Bratanis, co-founder and CTO of Goodvidio, and his partner started the business with their own hard-earned money, they were able to eventually raise VC funding. Pick a name for your business.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Office Space. Virtual Office. I am being offered a single digit percentage of outstanding shares, which I believe is based on the founder’s application of a share distribution as though I am in a CTO or a Director Of Engineering role. You’d have to look at your stock options contract. Call Us: +1-855-629-6200.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Starting a company without vesting your stock is like getting your girlfriend pregnant on the first date. Hiren Co-Founder and CTO @ Point10Solutions.com [link] Hiren Panchasara Thanks for the post ! Hiren Co-Founder and CTO @ Point10Solutions.com [link] Paul Nelligan Really amazingly good post. Vest, young man. Learned a lot.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

A good mentor is someone who has been part of the startup community themselves – someone who has a realistic understanding of some of the basic dos and don’ts of starting up. Pitch an idea :) Usually somewhere in the pitch the listener will ask if you’d also be interested in being a CEO, CTO, etc at something they are already funding!

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But I’ve seen some recent comments that this post might have upset and offended the SMB community that we serve, and that I cannot abide. In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. same thing goes for the majority of the Java community).NET

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