Today’s great post(s) are from Fred Wilson and Bijan Sabet regarding the usage of non-compete clauses for employees of venture-backed startups. Specifically Bijan argues that non-competes should be eliminated and Fred argues that they should not, if properly paid for. It’s an interesting debate, but one that I side with Fred on. Having spent the past 10 […]
Today’s guest blogger is Matt McCall of DFJ Portage. Matt was a co-investor with us in FeedBurner and sat on the board with me. He writes a great blog called VC Confidential. When the following question appeared, we did the super efficient thing and forwarded it to Matt to answer. Following is his response which […]
Dick Costolo (aka Mr. Ask the Wizard) – the founder/CEO of FeedBurner (now a Googler) has another outstanding post up titled Early Stage Board of Directors. In his delicious way, Dick talks through how he thinks about the potential composition of a Series A board and gives entrepreneurs some ammunition for their potential investors when […]
One of the issues that we debate internally is regarding the value of patents. We’ve written a lot about the subject over the years and those of you who are regular readers know that Brad hates all software patents, and I’m fairly close to that line as well. Last night, our friend Rob Shurtleff sent […]
Q: I have read the your article on typical compensation for senior management of venture backed companies. There was no mention of severance and length of contract terms. Can you opine? A: (Jason) Most everyone in the startup world is an at-will employee and does not have an employment contract. For those of you unfamiliar, […]
One company that draws a lot of questions is Google. Specifically, folks have questions regarding the fact pattern of their initial public offering. We weren’t investors in the company, so we generally don’t get involved answering these, but today my friends Mike Sullivan and Julia Vax from Howard Rice sent me this nugget: “Google’s IPO […]
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