fi.co

DECEMBER 4, 2012

In a post on his blog , Dave Parker, Co-Founder and CEO of Bundled.com and Director of the Seattle Founder Institute , explains why spiltting equity 50/50 amongst co-founders is almost never the right answer, because each co-founder will have their own expectations, commitment, and goals regarding the startup. Kuala Lumpur.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 12, 2021

We’re excited to announce our investment in Cap Hill Brands , a Seattle startup with the mission to build a next-generation CPG company by acquiring and operating digitally-native consumer brands. However, there hasn’t been much liquidity in the market for these types of businesses.

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keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

For example: Don’t accept equity compensation (stock shares) without knowing the percentage of the company you’ll own. From there, I began googling things like “first employee startup equity” and “startup offer negotiation.” These were the best resources I found: Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups. Let’s go home.”

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

To be fair, not all of them held this view and many of them were investing nationally earlier, but as we flip over to 2020, there is a general acceptance among Bay Area VC partnerships that they need to be able to invest across the country, not just NYC and LA or Seattle. The AUM of many VC funds has increased dramatically.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Advice For The Young At Heart business financing financing Kristen Gramigna private equity' They aren’t exclusive to Silicon Valley types. She brings more than 15 years of experience from the bankcard industry in direct sales, sales management and marketing to the company and also serves on its Board of Directors.

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

A friend of mine in Seattle just asked me the same question recently. For example, we have a mailing list in Seattle called “Seattle Tech Startups&# which is a great place to find a co-founder or developer-type. This is tough, and something I hear a lot. Mark 15 Nov 10 at 3:11 pm [.] to help him develop the idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable. Seattle-based company specializing in mobile analytics. 4mm in Series A.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Home About Contact Make It Happen: How to find a Programmer My weekly post on Seattle 2.0. To find a programmer who will simply share equity with you, you need two things. Be realistic with the amount of work you’ll each be doing when you discuss equity. The number one thing holding back new startups is funding.

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Berkonomics

MAY 31, 2018

I keep that email in my leather note portfolio, carrying it with me wherever I go, pulling it out often to read portions to audiences during my workshops, or just for fun to fellow private equity investor friends. After looking around a lot, I have landed as employee number seven at a Seattle-based startup called Amazon.com.”

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. Increasingly, people who were only available as full-time, equity-position founders or [.]

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

This will be the fourth city into which the program has expanded, joining Boulder, Seattle, and Boston. TechStars takes a 6% equity stake in each startup and has demonstrated a solid track record for those who've participated in the incubator program. TechStars is accepting applications now for the NYC Class of 2011.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 30, 2011

An Inside Look at BigDoor’s Venture Funding is going to be me, Keith Smith ( BigDoor CEO), and Andy Sack ( Lighter Capital , Founder’s Co-op , and the TechStars Seattle Managing Director). Both are good friends of mine and have really interesting philosophies about startup funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

You don’t have unlimited equity to dole out. He picked up an expensive defensive player, Byron Maxwell, from the talented Seattle Seahawks for big money. What I’m talking about is making tough decisions. As a leader you live in a world with limited resources. You can’t just overpay every person’s salary.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

When it comes to founders, Texas has jewelry mogul, Kendra Scott; Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban of Shark Tank; Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble; video game developer, John Carmack; Vista Equity Partners Founder, Robert Smith; Michael Dell of Dell Technologies; and now Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla!

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Founders. Equity for Employees. Bookkeeper.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

I liked Yishan too (he has an incredible balance of technical acumen, managerial talent and emotional intelligence), felt that he would have the time to help me, and persuaded him to take on a 3-month part-time assignment to advise me on building our engineering team, in exchange for equity. Culture - a fun, collegial work atmosphere.

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Up and Running

MARCH 6, 2018

If you have a home, you might be able to get a home equity loan to consolidate your debt. It’s a myth that you need to live in Silicon Valley or Seattle to create a successful startup. Plus, credit card consolidation can also lower your monthly payments, freeing up money you can put toward your business.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 4, 2012

Double Fine founder Tim Schafer told the San Francisco Chronicle that he'd think about selling shares down the road but notes that giving up equity in return for just $1 million doesn't make sense for Double Fine. "We People who gave over $10,000 got to have lunch with the game's designer. Better perks for bigger donors.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 18, 2015

Apparently Uber did this in Seattle, paying drivers to sit idle whilst they built demand. AirBnB is a good example – see case study. Pay for inventory – I think this only works at the very earliest stages, and even then I’d be careful.

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Berkonomics

MAY 7, 2011

I keep that email in my leather note portfolio, carrying it with me wherever I go, pulling it out often to read portions to audiences during my workshops, or just for fun to fellow private equity investor friends. After looking around a lot, I have landed as employee number seven at a Seattle-based startup called Amazon.com.”

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

And since VC dollars tend to concentrate around high-tech R&D areas, it’s notable that more than 90% of the nation’s innovation-sector growth (2005-2017) is accounted for by just five metro areas — Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and San Diego. Venture capital. in the mid-1940s — derived from East Coast institutions.

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Pascal's View

JANUARY 28, 2010

The most important startup centers are Silicon Valley, metropolitan Boston, Seattle and Austin and, increasingly, northern Virginia. And the issue of equity dilution, always high on the CEO’s agenda, often clashes with the agenda of all venture backers. This relationship is often absent among later-round venture investors.

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www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

Participation" means that investors "double dip" by getting both their liquidation preference and their equity allocation. - A "1x liquidation preference" without participation means that investors choose to either (a) get their money back or (b) convert to equity and get the equity value only.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 2019

In fact, a recent study found that 87 percent of business value among the S&P 500 is intangible value, including brand equity. Lindsay lives in Seattle with her husband and two children. It’s too bad so many leaders think brand is ‘squishy’ or insubstantial, because it serves a very pragmatic economic purpose.

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Haystack

JUNE 13, 2019

With Tableau, Salesforce gobbles a bunch of strategic goodies — a new regional HQ in Seattle; over 75K customers; a growing product line that will go into data management and more intelligent services; and possibly signaling an interest to go deeper into data business lines. 4/ Pivot North, Indeed.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 23, 2013

The company takes no equity, with the emphasis on business and technical mentoring. billion ), Microsoft is pleased with the outcome and has now launched accelerators in Bangalore, Beijing, Berlin and London, with programs planned for Seattle, Moscow, Paris and Rio de Janeiro.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. We are a venture capital growth equity fund in Washington DC with about $500m invested. The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. Revolution, what is it?

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Silicon Valleydominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York. This is one of the most powerful forces in humannature, and its missing when theres just one founder. Bad Location Startups prosper in some places and not others. Afterthat theres not much. In townslike Houston and Chicago and Detroit its too small to measure.

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Small Business Force

OCTOBER 22, 2017

equity, debt, some combination) or how you intend to raise it (e.g., angel/professional investors, private equity, crowdfunding) the process will always take more time and resources than you can ever imagine. No matter where you are in your growth cycle, (e.g., Finally, the size of their fund influences the size of their investment.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

It costs you a little more equity, but being able to play the two firms off each other (as well as ask one if the other is being out of line) is invaluable. 3 ]If "near you" doesnt mean the Bay Area, Boston, or Seattle,consider moving. Onefounder I know wrote: Two-firm deals are great. 4 ]Investors are often compared to sheep.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

The net effect was more money raised, higher valuation and the same percentage of equity sold. He tries to write things that havent already been written 9000 times. It was baffling at first until I realized that valuation is an output and that the focus is on future value. (To

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Other cities like New York, Boston, Seattle, LA and Austin TX also have pretty strong startup communities. In later posts I’ll get more specific on how to figure out if the folks you’re meeting are the right people to work with, and also how to deal with issues like splitting equity and paying yourselves before raising funding.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

5: Raising Money : The higher your evaluation is, the more equity you have to work with. Posted by: GUCCISTORE | August 22, 2010 9:19 AM to be honest, i like 5: Raising Money: The higher your evaluation is, the more equity you have to work with. Stay involved in the hiring process as long as you possibly can. Beg, borrow and steal.

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