Early Stage Product Development Revenue Salary 
David Teten
AUGUST 19, 2019
So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors (“RBI”) are emerging. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development.
OnlyOnce
MARCH 14, 2011
We all knew if the feature or function that the client was asking for was within the realm of the possible. • We were very, very focused on creating customers and revenue —We were a startup. If we drove revenue above costs, we got to take home a salary. It was stressful, but productively stressful and fun.
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Small Business Force
SEPTEMBER 10, 2017
Whether you’re an early-stage company or have been around for ten years, for entrepreneurs, leading and managing a small business, especially its growth, is never an easy task. We had some nice sustained success with six consecutive quarters of record revenues and earnings. But like Lego, we got surprised. Their fault?
Austin Startup
AUGUST 20, 2017
Early stage startups have to survive one day at a time and are often presented with limited choices of the moment that enable them to continue. At early stages you probably don’t have an assembly line and can’t clearly define any particular job. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission.
Growthink Blog
MAY 10, 2012
When seeking equity investments, the source of capital is, for the most part, tied to the stage of capital being raised. You see, equity capital is raised in stages or rounds. The five main stages include the following: 1. Early Stage Investment (Series A & B) 4. Pre-Seed Funding 2. Seed Funding 3.
Berkonomics
MAY 26, 2010
One of his lessons remains clearly on my mind and is a variant of the old “You name the price and I’ll name the terms” challenge that works so well in negotiation. . Cohen sets up an example where a senior position job candidate is stuck on a salary twice as high as the CEO is willing to pay, leading to a standoff between the two.
BeyondVC
JANUARY 2, 2006
All too often we are enamored with how cool or sexy a technology is, invest lots of dollars to create that killer product, and sometimes forget that it is all about the people. From a philosophical point of view, I view compensation as the combination of salary, bonus (if any), and equity.
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