Article written by Kip McClanahan and Morgan Flager of Silverton Partners. This article originally appeared in the Austin Business Journal. Compensation is a multi-dimensional challenge for founders and the first few executives in early-stage startups. The most important principles to remember as issues present themselves are fairness — including the perception of fairness — [...]
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INFOGRAPHIC: Self-Storage Explodes!
SpareFoot is one of the companies in Silverton Partner’s portfolio. They’re the world’s largest marketplace for self-storage — a $20 billion-dollar market. Sparefoot also provides leading web marketing solutions for storage operators. Sparefoot was founded in 2008 by then-UCLA students Chuck Gordon and Mario Feghali (aka Chario), SpareFoot originated as a person-to-person storage website (“airBnB for [...]
2012 Example Investor Pitch Deck and Discussion
This is the updated, 2012 version of the ReOverthinking start-up pitch deck; since the first version was written in 2009, this post and it’s predecessors has been read on average 50 times a day…often more than that. I really hope this indicates the number of entrepreneurs that are thinking about or working on a start-up. [...]
The Start-up Sprint to $25m in Annual Revenue
Entrepreneurs should have a framework for thinking about how to achieve the sort of scale that justifies a $100m+ exit – and that’s what this post is about. It’s also a result of a number of recent discussions and other posts: active planning cycles in many of Silverton’s portfolio companies growth targets and revenue scale [...]
