The Next Web

JANUARY 14, 2014

If you’re a startup founder, how much should you pay yourself? The company collected salary data from 11,160 startups around the world that use its benchmarking tool. 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.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Therefore, if you want to bring an MVP ( Minimum Viable Product ) to market, Werdelin approximates that you’ll need $50,000 to $250,000 , depending on the skill sets of the developers and designers you hire. The San Francisco-based company made do with $50 million to build its product from scratch to current iteration.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 23, 2012

Seth Levine of the Foundry Group has a blog post up today on CEO and founder salaries. I’ve been saying for years now that founder salaries should start at these sorts of levels and then rise to what would be market for the skillset in a larger company environment as the company gets to scale and/or profitability.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. I'm a huge fan of this innovation.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 10, 2012

San Francisco-based Developer Boot Camp was an idea that started with a friend in need. Bishay would charge tuition but would refund it if the students got jobs as developers and he earned a recruitment fee from the hiring company. A Vocational School for Programmers. He wanted to help, so he suggested his friend learn to code.

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keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

And if the CEO says, “Salaries will be adjusted to market value soon,” that’s probably a best-case scenario. The founders had been dropping hints that they wanted me to join them. I knew this meant that the founders had come to some conclusion about what to offer, and now I was going to find out what it was. Me: “Cool.

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View from Seed

JULY 21, 2022

Founders: Ingrid Hung & Emily Persky . Beyond offering disruptive and fair pricing, we’re becoming the go-to, trusted one-stop shop to discover and hire the talent clients always wanted, but didn’t know how to find and didn’t think they could afford. Get to know the founders. RH: Founders, please introduce yourselves. .

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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). Drowning American. Musings on Life and the American Dream. Skip to primary content. Post navigation.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc. However, figuring out the way your startup should make money could be challenging, especially for us left­-brained founders. Good salespeople are expensive.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

When investors interrogate founders, these interrogatives arise, but with a twist: Adding the word “why” in front of each. But also you de-risk by aligning the solution to the founder’s existing abilities, for example in using whatever language/framework the founders are already adept in. When → Why now?

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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. Startup salaries — especially on the engineering side — are at near record highs. publicly and privately lament “my portfolio is hurting…” Mark Suster over at Upfront has a great deck on this. This surprises nobody.

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Seed Stage San Francisco Startup Valuation 120

Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

And then, after a few years, I started to wonder — with all these new startups forming while all these huge growth rounds were happening, how would a founder even be able to recruit after raising a couple of million bucks? This is all happening, of course, to a region that doesn’t have a modern public transportation system.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

There are multiple reasons for this, but generally what happens is that people end up getting first jobs at smaller companies with lower salaries than they otherwise might have – and thus are playing catch-up from the start. It’s not just a salary issue. Unfortunately, this is the reality you’re faced with right now.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

I hired another guide to help with the load, and I started charging for tickets to pay the guide. million+ company, with 60+ team members doing tours in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.”. I’m Shelia Fitzgerald, owner and founder of EliteFitz, a destination inspired women’s boutique.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2016

by Brent Freeman , co-founder and president of Stealth Venture Labs. The number of daily cases we had quickly rose from 10 to 100 to 1,000, and our lone customer service representative insisted that we hire another person to help out. So we continued to hire more full-time salaried employees to help ease the pain.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2020

I craved freedom to be responsible for my salary, not have someone else set it. I’ve rarely seen it work out that way, and I worry I sometimes see too many people driven by the desire to be a CEO/founder, as opposed to making something awesome. I started the Baconer in the San Francisco Bay Area farmer’s markets in 2016.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Compounding what's already just a general shortage of engineers, those tech companies with deep pockets are offering big salaries and bonuses to those willing to join (and hopefully stay). The "Which startups in San Francisco Bay Area are hiring?" Although the unemployment rate in the U.S.

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Hippoland

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Dear elizy : What’s reasonable for a founder salary? For example: I’ve got 13 years of professional experience, an MBA and I have run several of my own businesses. -Salary Concerns in LA Dear Salary Concerns: Hmm…lots of thoughts here… 1) Your MBA doesn’t matter here Sorry. I certainly did.)

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

It was definitely a huge leap to leave the corporate world (and the salary and security that comes with it) and start a company. With a wealth of financial knowledge, I took a risk and became the CFO of a clean tech startup and eventually moved to San Francisco where my entire high end wardrobe became obsolete.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. In San Francisco one can find hacking events on a daily basis, as well as many unconference events where people get their hands dirty playing with code.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Voluntary salary reduction program. Ive also used the voluntary salary reduction tool - its particularly useful as a way to get passionate employees who dont have a lot of personal expenses to buy into the mission of the company at a deep level. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Selling is an honorable profession.

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Being independent of the ever-rising rent costs in San Francisco, New York, London and other business hubs worldwide is also a huge benefit. Access to capital and the established ecosystem attract many startup founders to the big tech hubs. Are you looking to hire remote workers?

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 23, 2011

Introduction I love working with startups – and trying to protect founders and watch their backs. Indeed, in a world of easy access to online documents, it is often this legal compliance which is overlooked by founders, as they attempt to stay “lean” and “scrappy” (and sometimes even handle the legal work themselves or through a web service).

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

A more rational career path for money-making is one that rewards effort, in the form of promotions, increased security, salary and status. A more rational career path for money-making is one that rewards effort, in the form of promotions, increased security, salary and status. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

But Viddy isnt based in the technology hotbeds of Silicon Valley and San Francisco. "It After years of the San Francisco Bay Area dominating the tech start-up scene, with huge smashes such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, entrepreneurs are finding they can go elsewhere to grow and prosper. But there will be," Citron says.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? Ability to hire top talent (A+ talent). you can hire for those. Maple Butter.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sjoerd Franken.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

I remember specifically one of the founders that we’d backed, when we kind of shook hands on our first investment said they were never going to raise anymore money and keep the team close and small. That founder has now raised almost $200M in funding. Resoundingly that was not only still the case but more so than ever. We weren’t VCs.

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