www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The irony of Bray’s argument is of course that Android – the part of Google that pays his salary, is also Java-based (well, pending the outcome of the Oracle suit anyway ) and extremely innovative. Copyright © 2003-2010 James Governor, RedMonk. Development by Crowd Favorite. Some rights reserved.

Java 43

Java Demand Web Framework 43

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

You scraped together enough for an angel round but not enough to pay yourself a real salary. It’s 2003 and VCs aren’t exactly lining up to fund startup businesses. And you pull the basic team together with some tech team members working evenings & weekends to conserve cash. Would now be a good time to buy a house?

Startup 417

Startup Dilution San Diego Stock Options 417

www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 23, 2012

a salary in the low 80s isnt going to land you any elite tech talent. The site just launched a recruiting service for startups, where it asks companies to state how much salary and equity theyre offering to employees - and Ravikant says he still sees a "huge disparity" in the range. © 2003-2012 ReadWriteWeb. Its not easy.

Hiring 49

Hiring Startup Semantic Equity 49

Campus Entrepreneurship

MAY 3, 2011

For artists in general, the median salary was $34,800 according to 2003-5 data collected by the National Endowment for the Arts full-time artists earned more, but still about 15 percent less than other professionals. Only one-third of professional artists surveyed by SNAAP said they were satisfied with their level of job security.

Salary 40

Salary Security Programming Design 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. 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). And I think this is sometimes missed by those who run to quickly to greener pastures.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Hiring Software Review Stock Options 285

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

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Something similar happened during a salary negotiation seminar years later. Eitan Lev, was born in 2003 with a rare and serious heart defect known as TAPVR. At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

Startup Company Lawyer

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

This was particularly common from 2001 to 2003, after the dot-com crash when companies had raised a large amount of venture financing at high valuations. 50% of base salary if still employed 6 months later). Below are some common structures for employee retention plans and issues related to each alternative.

Retention 31

Retention Liquidation Preference Employee Common Stock 31

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 24, 2021

You see, it was for work I’d performed from 2001–2003 at a startup called Linden Lab, the company behind virtual world Second Life. What that means is that in addition to salary and bonuses, when Satya and I get profits back from the fund, so do they. FWIW, we also back up this belief with actions ourselves. Notes and More.

Silicon Valley 83

Silicon Valley Equity Vesting Cofounder 83

Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

So last year Eileen Lee, did this amazing study where she dug into data going back to 2003. In that case, if you want to pay yourself more than 150% of a market salary, we would consider that a distribution. You will never be able to pay back your funds if you do not have one of these 6 companies a year. Four companies a year matter.

Venture Capital 40

Venture Capital Valuation Los Angeles Chicago 40

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Someone highly salaried : "You know what our problem is? " Me : "Oh, hm…" Someone highly salaried : "Thanks for agreeing with me, now please help us fix it!" " Someone highly salaried : "What do you mean? We have too many damn tools!" " Ok let me explain.

Analytics 98

Analytics Web Salary Non-Compete 98

Transformify

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

As for that financial impact, it would typically consist of the bad hire’s salary and benefits, their training and education, lost revenue while looking for a replacement, and of course the cost of searching for and hiring a new staff member. 68% of U.S. workers say that they expect to work remotely in the future.

Cost 53

Cost Hiring Australia China 53

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2011

Marketing guru Amish Shah was no stranger to these fumbles when he began his marketing and consulting empire back in 2003. There’s no telling what percentage of a potential office salary that would’ve been had Shah given up. 8,000 is now less than ten-percent of what Shah earns for a single consultation.

Marketing 154

Marketing Internet Salary Advertising 154

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

They paid themselves small salaries and setup monetary goals for the business each month. With some effort and patience, the three watched their salaries finally grow as profits from their paid plans started rolling in. Today, SparkFun has a wide following and boasts over $10 million in revenue. Startup #7: Grasshopper.

Bootstrapping 78

Bootstrapping Startup Cofounder Salary 78

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

Yair Margolin: I was a member of the core team at Peerapp in 2003, a supplier of caching solutions for ISPs. Me and my partner, Boaz Yehuda, worked without a salary. and our brilliant developers worked without a salary (for options). The conversation was in Hebrew, so hopefully nothing got “lost in translation&#.

Aggregator 84

Aggregator Caching PHP 84

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Options and future value are great ‘add ons’ but not for a welfare check salary until ‘this great idea makes it.’ also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea. As Seth said, the first meebo idea he came up with was in 2003.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. Google bought Gil’s company in 2003 (pre IPO) for $100+ million and this business now represents about 30% of all of Googles revenue. 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

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

They’re cutting salaries and making the last tens of thousands — or if they’re lucky a hundred thousand — last. Zucker, a veteran news executive, will succeed Jim Walton, who has had the job since 2003. The rest said companies are mostly still hanging on. Jeff Zucker to be new president of CNN Worldwide.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93