Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable. 15mm in Series A.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 6, 2014

So I thought it was pretty awesome when he went to be CTO of Oculus Rift to pursue the next generation of virtual reality software. Oculus says ZeniMax canceled Doom 3 VR support over equity demands. Virtual Legality 2: Oculus VR Responds Comprehensively To Zenimax Legal Letters.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

” I believe that by this he means they want cash rather than equity. These traits of a software engineer are always in demand by a great number of companies. My hunch is that most good software engineers only work for cash because they don’t feel that working for equity is worth the risk of failure.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? This ties into this Paul Graham article: [link] /equity. I'm always su. This answer.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. The other message I delivered to the room of entrepreneurs & investors at dinner the other night was that you need to think about equity from outside the region the same way that countries think about foreign direct investment. We know it can be done.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. Note: I’m not talking about equity. Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Andrew Montalenti. He blogs at pixelmonkey.org , where this post originally appeared.

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ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2014

Sendi Widjaja, CTO of Avvo, first brought up CRO when he realized that different page types converted ad clicks differently. Tests with interesting results quickly get management attention , and an addictive demand for more testing invariably follows. Meanwhile this company gets bought by a private equity group who installs a new CEO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

One of the first tough decisions that startup founders have to make is how to allocate or split the equity among co-founders. Another common “failure to start” situation I see is one where the “idea person” insists that the idea is 90% of the value (and 90% of the equity). Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO?

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2012

One of the first tough decisions that startup founders have to make is how to allocate or split the equity among co-founders. Another common “failure to start” situation I see is one where the “idea person” insists that the idea is 90% of the value (and 90% of the equity). Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO?

Intellectual Property 252

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. Someone who is egotistical enough to call themselves a rockstar, yet humble enough not to want 99% of the equity? Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? This person does not exist.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This resulted in a recapitilization of the equity away from 33% each (in my favor) and then the ultimate dismissal of one of the co-founders prior to the A-round. I know one company demanding something like 15K just to use his product in my portal. Seriously mean it too. Anti Matter Also raising 25K is just as hard as 250K.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Colin Hayhurst , CTO co-founder then CEO of start-up b. Having said that, if we must generalize the start-up with the best chances of succeeding are likely to have a CEO and a CTO. 2) The Biz Person (organization and equity person) who understands how to structure the company and raise capital. The former focussed on biz.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

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. Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing).

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