I’d like to invite you to participate in the 2011 CompStudy, the results of which have become the industry-leading Private Company Compensation and Entrepreneurship Report…the Kelley Blue Book of startup compensation, if you will. To obtain free access to the full reporting platform, the deadline for completion of this year’s survey will be June 30th. [...]
No one wants to tell you your baby is ugly. It’s awkward. Think of it from their perspective. If you show them a picture and then ask, “what do you think of my pride and joy?” Despite the honest answer that everyone knows (damn! she’s ugly!) the universal response is a form of, “you must [...]
In a couple of weeks, CompStudy will release the 2010 survey results with the latest on startup executive compensation. This is the 11th year for the survey and the biggest year ever in terms of participation. Not only that, there are a number of new features that will be rolled out with this year’s survey [...]
I feel like I’m in that scene from The Jerk where Steve Martin sees his name in the phone book and exclaims, “I’m somebody!” I’m published (sorta)! A couple of years ago I wrote this post on the science and art of negotiating a term sheet, which turned out to be a fairly popular post. [...]
I’ve mentioned this survey several times in the past, but this time I bring news of the 2010 survey opening to participants. This year the survey covers six countries (Canada, China, India, Israel, UK and US) in two industries (technology and life sciences). Each year, over 1,000 companies complete the survey, making it the largest [...]
Last December I wrote a post about how December is the time of year when a lot of startup Boards decide to make management (read CEO) changes. I was reminded of this as I was reading a TechCrunch article about how Dan Nye is out as CEO of LinkedIN. In this case the founding CEO [...]
I just read this post by David Cohen on the Colorado Startups blog about “boomerang founders.” It’s a nice post on the hazards of flying loose with founder agreements in the early days (think ConnectU lawsuit against Facebook). Cohen writes: The moral of the story: Early on, if you can afford it, do things right. [...]