Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2016

Giving a co-founder a salary won’t get you the “fire in the belly” you want. Co-founders only able to work part-time, with responsibility and major income sources elsewhere, don’t carry the same risk as others with more operational responsibility. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

Not only do these requirements ensure that businesses operate within the law but it also protects small business owners and their consumers. . A small business is an independently owned and operated entity that engages in commercial activity and fulfills the set industry-specific size standards. What legally defines a small business?

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Our categorization is not a technical one. This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Founder Earnings” (Founder Salaries + Dividends + Retained Earnings). Discretionary dividends and salary share built in.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

It was all technical. You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. Technical founder. And my specialty was computer networks.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Pierce Burnette knows the meaning of “humble beginnings” and has combined her intelligence quotient (IQ), emotional intelligence (EQ), entrepreneurial spirit, and technical knowledge to forge successful careers in engineering, information technology, and education. She is committed to improving representation in Austin’s technology landscape.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. I have heard many founders — even in the first few months of product development — expect to raise seed rounds, pay themselves salaries, etc. You can follow him @amontalenti on Twitter.

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Rob Go

JUNE 10, 2013

Some other candidate sources are ok, but I always got bad results from technical recruiters. Keep salaries low and equity high. Have a good operational cadence where projects are short and you’re releasing something new on a regular basis. The last five words there are important. Hire friends and friends of friends. Keep going.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Something similar happened during a salary negotiation seminar years later. From that life altering event, Ella Bing was born as a family owned and operated business in 2012. So I sat at home for a year to teach myself about optics and ended up founding Light with my cofounder in 2013. Thanks to Dr. Rajiv Laroia, Light ! #38

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