YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2017

When investors believe in the founders, products, or ideas they will provide companies with funding. For many startups this results in a need to raise additional financing through debt or equity arrangements. To outside investors, the future of early stage and startup companies can be murky.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 10, 2011

A long-time friend and colleague, Steve Wexler, who is great at visualization took my Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data and produced a really need interactive visualization via Tableau. You can click on the filters such as Founder Status (#3) and Job Title (#4) to filter to that particular data. Most non-founders have less than 2%.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 10, 2011

A long-time friend and colleague, Steve Wexler, who is great at visualization took my Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data and produced a really need interactive visualization via Tableau. You can click on the filters such as Founder Status (#3) and Job Title (#4) to filter to that particular data. Most non-founders have less than 2%.

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Salary Equity San Francisco Dilution 175

David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2013

I was visiting as part of Terrapinn Private Equity World, a leading private equity conference for the Latin American technology community. Endeavor recognizes that although entrepreneurial activity already exists in Miami, it remains difficult for founders to reach scale. (from my guest column in the Miami Herald ).

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Founders Den co-founder and angel investor Zachary Bogue has joined forces with seasoned big data VC Matt Ocko , Metamarkets founder Michael Driscoll and Prismatic CEO Bradford Cross to launch Data Collective , the world’s first Big Data-only early stage investment fund. .” San Francisco, CA.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Next → How to Hire for Sweat Equity…. That being said the following is available to the right candidate: • 3-5% equity in the company (based on experience). • $50,000/year salary once we obtain funding (target: January, 2010). And now I’m trying to get my own team, and have them work for equity. Post navigation.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. two founders in a garage?—?(HP The most connected and high-potential founders start with wads of cash. The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two HP Style) are dead. Seksom Suriyapa ?—?he

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post).

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Nevertheless, there are literally thousands of other examples scattered around the country, each of which grew from a founder or two with an idea to a successful growth company employing scores, hundreds or even thousands of skilled employees, with the attendant benefits to the local and national economy.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice. No Nonsense.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 14, 2014

If you’re a startup founder, how much should you pay yourself? In Silicon Valley, 75% of founders pay themselves less than $75,000 per year and 66% pay themselves less than $50,000 per year, according to the data. It aligns his interest with the equity holders. Does the stage that a startup is at affect its founders’ salaries?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

three entrepreneurs who are part of this vanguard of Latam founders. public, private, debt, equity, market return, concessionary capital, etc. Yet female founders received only 2% of venture capital dollars in 2017. due in large part to the rising costs in San Francisco and economic booms elsewhere. What gives?

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Texas Venture Capital 50

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

And female founders of startups are on the rise as well. . Building equity throughout organizations is difficult, painstaking work. For seven years after founding The Rand Group, I worked 12 hours per day and barely took a day off,” says Daniella Rand, a San Francisco-based wealth manager with two decades of experience in the field.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 4, 2009

Adeo Ressi , the founding member of TheFunded , recently announced the establishment of TheFunded Founder Institute. The Founder Institute helps founders launch innovative companies by providing training, services, and company-building assignments, such as incorporating the business, filing provision patents, and setting up books and records.

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keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

For example: Don’t accept equity compensation (stock shares) without knowing the percentage of the company you’ll own. The founders had been dropping hints that they wanted me to join them. From there, I began googling things like “first employee startup equity” and “startup offer negotiation.” Paul Graham’s Equity Equation.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Getting to meet the founders and investing early is a lot more fun than trading stocks at an online brokerage. It will be easier to get in touch with VCs if you live where the startup scene is huge, such as San Francisco or New York. A successful startup can yield a pot of gold if there’s an initial public offering.

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Austin Startup

JULY 19, 2021

To give a high-level snapshot of the activity in just the investment community alone this past June, ATX Venture Partners closed a $150M fund, 8VC filed with the SEC regarding plans to raise an $880M fund and Mainsail Partners, a growth equity fund based in San Francisco, is planning to open an office in Austin this September ( Source: AustinInno ).

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Question My co-founders and I are working on a cool new site, and we’ll be ready to launch in a few weeks. Otherwise, if one of the founders quits after a few months, he would take all of his shares with him. In short, this is a nightmare scenario – particularly if there is bad blood with the other co-founders. IP Ownership.

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Vesting Software Review IP Intellectual Property 89

David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. It was originally called Romotive, and I still remember founder Keller Rinaudo just crushing it at demo day that year. These are sorted by the year that we funded them.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2018

by Melvin Wong , founder of Kodorra. This is why it is especially important for startup founders to seek help to guide them through the tedious and often perilous process of starting and growing a company. Founded in 2011 and based out of London, F6S is one of the world’s largest founders’ online communities with over 2.7

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 24, 2014

It’s for reasons like these that I support getting startup founders some liquidity during their company’s first few years, perhaps as early as Series A financing when appropriate. At Homebrew we’ve backed many first time founders, many of whom have struck out on their own and are putting lots at risk.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The Founders Lie About Comfort Zones – [link]. Investors Need to Lose Their Egos and Founders Need to Gain Some Confidence – [link]. Go west, young MBA: Important rules for building wealth in San Francisco – [link]. Convertible Debt: really Bridge Loans and Equity Replacement Debt – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. He is also the co-founder of Traction, a community empowering over 100k innovators through connections, content, and capital. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai He is an entrepreneur, podcast host, and community builder.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2018

Over the past 20 years in San Francisco I went from negative net-worth grad student to Silicon Valley “Middle Class” (the 2%) to running a venture fund that, if we do our job, will ultimately put me in the 1% or better (in California the average annual household income of the 1% is an astounding $1.4m+). I LOVE THIS!

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Bring your questions. Amazon PostRank

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Manu Kumar is Founder and Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures. Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction. Hyper-Local, meaning the entire team should be based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Frighteningly Early.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. This is not meant to be a negative post, but rather a temperature check of today’s market environment and the levers founders can pull on to survive this period. What is a founder to do? Israeli tech review Q3 2022, IVC Online and Bank Leumi.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

In fact, there’s a glow among the Twitterati that alignment between founders and investors is getting back to normal. As startups raised more capital and needed to compete for the best talent, they’ve been forced to give both real equity and pay market rates. This surprises nobody. See Angel List’s breakout here for current rates.

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Seed Stage San Francisco Startup Valuation 120

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Important insight – Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders – [link]. Employee Equity: Restricted Stock and RSUs on #mbamondays – [link]. Mike Samson, Co-Founder of @crowdSPRING on Community Building & NO!SPEC Way to go San Francisco! Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups – [link].

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

The Savannah Fund will take 15% equity in each of its companies. My 3G connection in Tanzania is better than what I get in San Francisco. He’s worked at startups, at Microsoft and at San Francisco accelerator i/o Ventures. But is there the same startup mentality and excitement here?”. A Different Valley Culture.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 19, 2019

The results have helped guide our planning and I’m really excited about all the new options and sessions we’ve come up with for the October 23-25 event in San Francisco. Arlan Hamilton , Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital, built her company while homeless.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

when you talk with the founders and the rest of team. Do you see evidence that the founders invest in design and value it at the same level as engineering and business? Is there essentially a waterfall method where the founders or engineers make all the key decisions and then want designers to make it “pretty?”.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore. Location: San Francisco.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Business of Software is a conference organized by Neil Davidson and Joel Spolsky , and was held this year in San Francisco. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

This is the fourth and final post covering speakers’ insights from our marketplace meetup held in San Francisco on October 20. This is why it was so great to hear from Indiegogo co-founder Slava Rubin on how Indiegogo grew by 1) expanding into different verticals and 2) expanding into different products.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The truth is that the brutal reality of public markets is that they self correct much more quickly than our shitty little private equity illiquid corner of the universe. We have an entire generation of startup founders who don’t have muscle memory from getting their burn rates back into shape from 2008/09 or 2001-2005.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

After several visits skiing here, I had become smitten with the “mojo” of Bend – its superb quality of life, recreational opportunities and proximity to the San Francisco Bay Area. Founders Pad. Regional entrepreneurs are at an inherent disadvantage in getting the attention of customers and late stage VCs.

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