If you’re running a venture-backed startup, don’t expect to be able to set a high salary for yourself. One founder who’s getting ready to quit his job and raise a $500,000 seed round asked on Quora: "Is a $100K salary too much for an angel/VC-backed startup co-founder?" He says his co-founder, who’s a software engineer with [...]
Our digital future isn’t all Facebook and iPhone apps. Meet the engineer behind Google X. Hewlett-Packard is laying off 27,000 people. Yahoo is treading water. Facebook IPO shares got flipped and then flopped. Has Silicon Valley reached the end of the line? Will everyone just develop me-too iPhone apps? I knew just the guy to [...]
10 Super Successful Cofounders And Why Their Partnerships WorkedNot all entrepreneurs need co-founders, but many successful companies — including Apple, eBay, and Twitter — were built by multiple leaders with productive relationships. How did these individuals find their business counterparts? And what made their combined skill-sets a recipe for success? Not surprisingly, many were long-time [...]
SYPartners' Keith Yamashita Helped Howard Schultz Reinvent Starbucks I knew Howard Schultz back in the early days of Starbucks. He was an investor in one of my companies. He was still young in his career. A little gangly. Even a bit on the shy side. But boy, did he have vision. And that vision was [...]