The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The same holds true for the marketer (or growth hacker if you have a semantic preference) who controls your customer acquisition channels, the salesperson who dominates your revenue creation, or the operations person without whom, you wouldn’t even know how to issue paychecks.

Employee 102

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Practically this means that you’ll outsource (most likely off-shore) your design and development, you’ll rent your servers, you won’t have an office and you’ll have no salary. No salaries, at first, but we did a lot ourselves and then did a lot as trade and/or on an advertising basis.

Bootstrapping 41

Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. Factual was created in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the founder of Applied Semantics. In case you don’t know Applied Semantics it’s Google AdSense. No wonder people had to raise $5 million just to get started back then. We raised $16.5 million in our A round.

Cloud 343

Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing). Therefore that developer will either learn the semantics of the last or simply institute her own. Semantic Webber (2010-06-21) # Great read! Thank you for you insight. Keep it Simple.

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84