Revenue Salary Stock Options Technical Review 
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 22, 2020
Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. If the company has been around for more than a couple of years, and still has no product or revenue flow, there better be a good explanation.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 18, 2023
Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. If the company has been around for more than a couple of years, and still has no product or revenue flow, there better be a good explanation.
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Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 8, 2015
Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. If the company has been around for more than a couple of years, and still has no product or revenue flow, there better be a good explanation.
Steve Blank
APRIL 10, 2019
A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. Why Startups Offer Stock Options. VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. Here’s why. Why would they do that?
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 10, 2016
Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. If the company has been around for more than a couple of years, and still has no product or revenue flow, there better be a good explanation.
Austin Startup
NOVEMBER 29, 2017
Namely, windfall revenue from oil means that the Texas taxman does not collect personal or corporate income taxes (on the state level). Partly as a result of the relatively low tax burden, the overall cost level is an order of magnitude lower than in the coastal tech hubs. That’s helpful in a couple of ways.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2010
I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). I learned how to retain employees when stock options were no longer a real currency. and we ultimately sold when we hit $14 million and had more than $30 million in backlog revenue. million, then $5.9m, $7.7m
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