{"id":550,"date":"2007-08-11T17:49:43","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T21:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/08\/11\/how-much-equity-for-your-venture-capital-funding-and-employees\/"},"modified":"2007-08-12T06:52:17","modified_gmt":"2007-08-12T10:52:17","slug":"how-much-equity-for-your-venture-capital-funding-and-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/08\/11\/how-much-equity-for-your-venture-capital-funding-and-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Equity For Your Venture Capital Funding and Employees?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As discussed in my recent post about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/08\/10\/tie-chicago-chapter-start-up-stories\/\">TiE event on Chicago start ups<\/a>, there are many factors to consider when taking in funding and employees. <a href=\"http:\/\/dondodge.typepad.com\/the_next_big_thing\/2007\/08\/how-much-equity.html\">Don Dodge discussed<\/a> in great detail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/equity.html\">Paul Graham&#8217;s The Equity Equation post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;d like to ask the blogosphere, &#8220;How does one judge this inflection point of being better off with this asset, person or money infusion?&#8221;I&#8217;d say this is an especially tough question when the many startups aren&#8217;t focusing on the priorities in the correct order.  When I advise a start up or look to join an Internet, Web 2.0, search engine or mobile start ups, I look for the following things:<\/p>\n<p>1) A workable revenue plan either now or that can be communicated in a believable timeline and\/or a data model that collects opt-in data that would allow monetization once scaled.<\/p>\n<p>2) An understanding that bringing in a person with strong knowledge of data models and marketing methods early in the process is critical to success and to reducing the revisions to applications later. A CTO without a logical end goal is all too often a wasted resource that could and should wait until there is a clear execution vision.<\/p>\n<p>3) People that have a passion for creating, implementing and executing on an idea first and foremost.<\/p>\n<p>4) A willingness to march into a new direction without limiting beliefs. This is where breakthroughs originate.<\/p>\n<p>Again, in the end it&#8217;s all about judgment and knowing the current teams strengths and weaknesses! I wish you well in your start up ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As discussed in my recent post about a TiE event on Chicago start ups, there are many factors to consider when taking in funding and employees. Don Dodge discussed in great detail Paul Graham&#8217;s The Equity Equation post. So I&#8217;d like to ask the blogosphere, &#8220;How does one judge this inflection point of being better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship","category-recruiting","category-venture-capital"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}