Hiring Lock-up Period Startup 
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 5, 2010
A caller dialed in to ask us questions about his startup. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). The problem was that he was still working out the lock-up period in his big company. It was May.
VC Cafe
JANUARY 14, 2022
2021 was a banner year for Israeli startups, breaking new records in fundraising, new unicorns, and exits. Israeli startups are on fire. According to the 2021 Tech Review report by IVC , Israeli tech startups attracted a record of $25.6 Exits of Israeli startups in 2021 reached $82.4 What comes next? Where are we now?
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 13, 2013
For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. And to keep up with the Jones’s it seems that Yahoo! The Aqui-hire Business. Almost certainly the startup would have raised some capital. Go do a startup.
The Equity Kicker
DECEMBER 18, 2014
Building a startup there is, of course, still an enormously hard thing to do, but there are lots that have made it big enough to create scores of millionaires through their option schemes. That’s great for the startups because option holders are often happy to work for lower salaries. Startup general interest'
Haystack
OCTOBER 13, 2019
At the end of 2016, folks in the startup tech ecosystem looked toward 2017’s impending “uncertainty.” ” Then at the end of 2017, the same worry about 2018; rinse and repeat last year, looking toward 2019. I call this “trimming hedges” and “planning for a rainy day” mentality.
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