Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

it took years for Airbnb’s metrics to really start accelerating. To honor the Alliance it had made with those former employees, Airbnb waived the usual vesting cliff so that they could exercise their stock options, and provided generous severance packages. So I got the license to put a term sheet down, and we made the investment.

Hosting 69

Hosting Hockey Stick IPO Silicon Valley 69

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

I managed the pressure but it lead me to gain weight, drink too much, work all the time and internalize the pressure that if I failed it would be very public and would affect the lives of everybody who joined my startup in the belief we would do something big together. The road is littered with startups that shined bright before burning out.

Houston 150

Houston Vesting Founder Capital Call 150

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Good investors use the valuation discussions to gauge the business savvy of the management team and to understand their ability to appreciate and deal with economic market forces that set values.   For individual angels and others investing their own money, this may be more fluid than for someone with responsibility for a managed fund.

Term Sheet 68

Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Transparency: Social enterprises face the challenge of building trust with their stakeholders and thus have an additional incentive to provide ample amounts of transparency in their success metrics. Compensation & Wages: This issue is significant for a social enterprise.

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Vesting Government Stock Salary 51

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A founder’s lack of credibility/experience in growing and managing a large company hindered a company that wanted to go public. While 20th century metrics were revenue and profit, today it’s common for companies to get acquired for their user base. Some founders have three-year vesting. Some have no cliff.

Founder 256

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 256

Startup Company Lawyer

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Executive management is typically the key participant, however, participation may be determined by time of service or benefits can be given to all employees. Alternatives include position, time of service, current equity holdings or other metrics as determined by the company’s board of directors. Participation. Allocation.

Retention 31

Retention Liquidation Preference Employee Common Stock 31

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Challenge the Status Quo - StubHub entered an industry dominated by a couple of large players who had a vested interest to block the legality of their business of providing a marketplace for the sale of tickets in the secondary market. There are going to be a lot of tough times and perseverance is essential.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley 28

ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

Chris Samila , Partnerships Manager at Optimizely shares: “We saw building and supporting a partner ecosystem as a massive opportunity. Being metrics and business outcome focused throughout a product’s lifecycle is important to us, and using Amplitude allows us to measure and achieve our goals in that regard.”.

Channel 84

Channel Partner Programming B2B 84

ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

Chris Samila , Partnerships Manager at Optimizely shares: “We saw building and supporting a partner ecosystem as a massive opportunity. Being metrics and business outcome focused throughout a product’s lifecycle is important to us, and using Amplitude allows us to measure and achieve our goals in that regard.”.

Channel 77

Channel Partner Programming B2B 77

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2015

Having this framework in there to really weed out ideas that may not be good and managing the stakeholder expectations. First thing I try to do is, a lot of times when this happens, is really the people who are having this big giant strategic test, that they have a lot of vested interest in there. What a waste of opportunity.

Video 48

Video Analytics SCRUM Metrics 48

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

When I was a manager, I was once leading a cycle post-mortem. In order to give people the data they need to apply the strategy, we were very open with our company metrics, making all reports generally available and easy to run. Utopian theoretics make great blogs but not great managers. 6-12 months for many major decisions.)

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Employee San Francisco Lean Software Review 146

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Building Metrics / Usage Reports / KPI 3. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Why do I do it?

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

joined as a General Manager of the Computing Tabulating Recording Company, but renamed the company International Business Machines and turned it into the IBM we recognize today. They are paid in terms of stock options that vest over 4 years and cash bonuses for quarterly and yearly performance. Thomas Watson, Sr.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 78

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

People, not just metrics. He was the co-founder of Intel and he probably wrote some of the very best books on modern management. He wrote a book called High Output Management. We have to manage our stakeholders, raise money, diversify our business, and cut costs." Eric Ries : Metrics are people too.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2008

There is no "global standard" Sadly I have never seen a study that was objective and not pushing the vested interests of the publisher (be it a company or a "analyst"). You will get a better understanding of metrics like Visits to Purchase or New and Returning Visitors or even Conversion Rates. If yes, use those.

Analytics 111

Analytics Web .Net eCommerce 111

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) Do you manage to hire any programmers in the first place. are also reasonable and flexible.

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Java PHP Software Review Coder 107