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

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

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.

United States 114

United States Founder India Venture Capital 114

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

My starting salary was $27,000. This was pre Internet. In 1997 I was sent to England to work on a project for the oil company Halliburton. Finance weenies not geeks. We got to define Internet offerings for one of the largest telcos in Europe. I struggled to get the group to take me – they only took engineers.

Marketing 385

Marketing Europe Engineer Networking 385

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.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

I’ve encountered many of the different ways boards can interact under different circumstances, whether it’s problem executives, problem investors, CEO misbehavior, financing issues, business crises and more. WHY IS A STARTUP BOARD SO IMPORTANT? Unfortunately, I experienced this dysfunction personally at my very first startup, SocialNet.

Startup 36

Startup Cofounder Advertising Hiring 36

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

The son of Armenian immigrants, he has spent the past four years in Las Vegas working as a mortgage banker, a job that he says paid him $250,000 in salary and commissions last year." Former students who are readers of this blog may recall the Amazon IPO case from Entrepreneurial Finance class. or a market cap of $800M.

Las Vegas 28

Las Vegas IPO Pre-Money Valuation Valuation 28