A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
FEBRUARY 21, 2011
It’s among the most-asked questions on startup forums, and an issue we’re dealing with right now at WPEngine as we bring on new employees: How do you decide how much equity (shares) to give a new employee or partner? The question is further complicated when the new hire is getting a salary. What about $Y/mo?&#
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JANUARY 4, 2018
This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. Every day, 5% of the entire online world visits a customer running on the WP Engine Digital Experience Platform. The majority of the funds pay back our early investors who believed in us enough to trust us with their money.
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JANUARY 7, 2014
It’s not a ruse devised by greedy vulture capitalists vying for extra points of equity. You still signed that 5-year office lease, hired support, sales, and engineering, and brought in training, a comptroller, and a business operations person. “Always raise more money than you think you need.”
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JUNE 20, 2011
To hire key employees. Otherwise they have a lot of planning and hiring to do before the project has a decent velocity, which could take 6-18 months. It’s about not having competition, whether by conversion or just putting everyone’s revenue in the same pot. The main thing is: a competing franchise didn’t win.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MARCH 11, 2014
So hiring more people and being around more people and getting more things done is not actually one of the reasons. After that, I did it for a private equity firm then we became a part of a larger corporation. How do you split equity? I’m going to hire another engineer. Lots of things change. ” Jason: So?
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