David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Similarly, when Flexible VC structures are based off of the founder’s own compensation (often via salary or dividends), investors are specifically tying their returns to the financial success of the founder.
Hunter Walker
MAY 13, 2023
per engineer.” Especially in the early days of mobile/iOS engineering, if you hired strong technical talent into your early stage company, you basically created an acquisition outcome floor. “Worst case scenario we’ll sell to a larger startup or public company for about ~$1.5m of the time my answer is no f **g way].
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YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 9, 2018
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 2, 2015
People care about salary increases and benchmarking to market and even if you can’t pay market you sure as hell better know what “market” is. Legal threats from other IP holders? I promise you if there was no glue between sales, marketing, product and engineering we would have had greatly limited our growth curve.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 20, 2017
They’re looking to be paid properly in the context of the overall salary structure, including cash, benefits, and equity, and to be paid commensurate with performance. I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing. Don’t be the plaid guy. Paisley is OK.)
VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
It’s nice to have protected IP, but that will mostly matter later on in the event of an acquisition. Don’t raise just to get a salary or because you need to pay for servers. Patented Technology? Patents are nice but… in a consumer Internet business, it’s most likely that you aren’t re-inventing the wheel.
Scott Edward Walker
JUNE 23, 2011
Not only are there key contractual issues that must be buttoned-down (like vesting and IP assignment ), but also there is a minefield of laws and regulations that must be complied with. This is sometimes an overlooked issue for Web/tech startups — particularly those hiring engineers who are attending (or recently graduated from) a U.S.
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