Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 28, 2009
If you don’t address it they’re minds are shaped by competitor PR. Don’t underestimate the impact of good PR on your competitors. Good PR can help slow down your competitors initiatives as they naively try to follow you. Join because you’ll make a good not great salary. Having a conversation.
Genuine VC
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
Funding Announcement Figure out your PR strategy for announcing the round to get your plan in order. Foundation for New Employee Hires Formulate and socialize with the Board acceptable compensation bands (both salary and equity options) for new employees.
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 28, 2013
You scraped together enough for an angel round but not enough to pay yourself a real salary. In the startup journey if you have success in your early product launches, fund raising and PR you’re likely to get “inbound interest” from likely acquirers. I’d like to give you a few examples that are more nuanced: 1.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MARCH 11, 2014
You may call it employee number one with a really low salary and really generous stock options and as the company grows, you’ll fix their salary. Every second you spend dealing with selling that, you could’ve been getting PR that gets a hundred signups that are cheap to support and deal with.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Not ‘maybe’ not ‘if this makes $’ not even ‘when we make $ – see how many companies went bust with all the codeheads accepting part ownership or ‘options’ but cash in the hand. So frequently embarrassing failures are masked by spinning PR or fudging numbers to give the illusion of success.
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