Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

They take common stock, not preferred, a fact that the entrepreneurs mentioned to me many times. Im also excited to share two long-form reviews from actual attendees. You can learn more about that by reading The engineering managers lament.) More recently it's skewed to software & web.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Lean 113

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. A CEO brought in from a large company came with all the big company accoutrements – org charts, HR departments with formal processes and procedure handbooks, formal waterfall engineering methodology, sales compensation plans, etc. This seems to be occurring more and more.

Founder 274

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 274

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Your natural tendency when an investor says yes willbe to relax and go back to writing code. Theres only common stock at this stage.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76