Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Low salary. The truth is that in my experience very, very few people really enjoy the “pure&# startup environment: months with no salary, months with no live product and lots of trial, error & rejection. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. Internet pioneers.

Entrepreneur 384

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

couldn’t draw a salary). The latter was fine by me since there was no money in the company for me to draw a salary any way. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. I formed SneakerLabs, Inc. in December 1996, while on a student visa.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

My starting salary was $27,000. This was pre Internet. Every project, every conversation was shaped by people’s perception of my undergraduate degree in economics and my “track” at Accenture. In 1997 I was sent to England to work on a project for the oil company Halliburton. 25, ISDN, T3s, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Low salary. The truth is that in my experience very, very few people really enjoy the “pure&# startup environment: months with no salary, months with no live product and lots of trial, error & rejection. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. Internet pioneers.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

In the episode, Kristy Kruger talks about picturing unicorns roaming the planes in Africa as a kid and being at a party many years later when the topic of conversation turned to endangered species: It was about a group of five to seven people, kind of standing around the keg, just talking. or a market cap of $800M.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

For example, in 1997, I had not realized that you need to invent and reinvent your go to market strategy together with your product idea. As the company matures, it may even involve having a hard conversation about the need for a CEO change. Unfortunately, I experienced this dysfunction personally at my very first startup, SocialNet.

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