www.inc.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Arizona Bay, after all, had built the IT infrastructure and Web applications that Jumpstart needed to hit it big. One of the ways vendors and partners--whose behind-the-scenes assistance often is crucial to a start-ups success--can get a piece of the action is to exchange services for equity. Graham was happy for his client.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 26, 2020
Going all the way back to Yahoo or Microsoft, the initial products (a directory for a nascent tech called the World Wide Web, and Microsoft BASIC,) didn’t look like billion dollar products at all. He is also a venture partner at several VC firms. I was wrong. You can follow him on Twitter.
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Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 26, 2009
They take common stock, not preferred, a fact that the entrepreneurs mentioned to me many times. As a result, the companies get a lot of exposure to VCs, investors, and partners in larger, more traditional startup hubs. More recently it's skewed to software & web. There used to be a ton of storage startups here.
The Next Web
JUNE 17, 2015
For example, your tech development firm that is going to help you build your website and maintain it over time, is a much better equity partner than the firm that is going to design your logo in a quick one-time project. How Onerous Are the Terms? This typically comes down to the security, voting rights and valuation of the deal.
Agile VC
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
My partner Rob also wondered if Facebook is the next Yahoo! , I’ll focus for now on the business itself, there’s plenty of other info on the web if you care to understand the equity ownership or financing history of Facebook and frankly this has been fairly well known for awhile. ==. or the next Google. Facebook, Inc.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
The fund managers, who are called"general partners," get about 2% of the fund annually as a managementfee, plus about 20% of the funds gains. Not all the people who work at VC firms are partners. If you get a call from a VCfirm, go to their web site and check whether the person you talkedto is a partner.
Pascal's View
MARCH 9, 2010
Answer: Actually there is plenty of financial information available from private companies, but that does not mean that it is available to institutional investors as passive investors who are Limited Partners in venture capital or other private equity partnerships.
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