YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 23, 2011
Mark Cuban wasn’t always a successful Internet mogul and NBA owner. In 1997, Armstrong was fired from the French racing team Cofidis while he was undergoing cancer treatment. The team refused to give Armstrong the rest of his salary and medical coverage. Mark Cuban.
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.
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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.
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. We got to define Internet offerings for one of the largest telcos in Europe. My first job after graduation was with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). 25, ISDN, T3s, etc. He took me.
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.
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." Amazon priced it''s IPO in 1997 at approximately $500M (the $18 IPO price was an increase from the $12-$14 range) and first trade was at $29.25
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. My initial theory was that my value came from being a consumer internet expert with special expertise in virality, since I was one who invented some key viral marketing practices.
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