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Burning Door
burningdoor.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2007
Dick Costolo, founder of FeedBurner and later Twitter COO, answers startup questions on business models, stock options, venture terms and office layout.
What HN saysHN commenters cite it as a great source on open-plan offices, launching quickly, and liquidation preferences, and link it when discussing startup practice.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Dick Costolo of Feedburner on Why You Don't Need a Business Model (Yet)3 people · 12 points · first shared 2008 · 1 comments on HN
- 2Dick Costolo (Twitter COO) on Stock Options Acceleration2 people · 28 points · first shared 2007 · 2 comments on HN
- 3Ask the Wizard: What is obvious to you is not necessarily obvious to others2 people · 14 points · first shared 2007 · 4 comments on HN
- 4Ask the Wizard: Launch Late to Launch Often2 people · 7 points · first shared 2007 · 2 comments on HN
- 5Ask the Wizard: Venture Terms - Liquidation Preferences and Participation2 people · 3 points · first shared 2007 · 3 comments on HN
- 6Ask the Wizard: No Offices2 people · 3 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 7new blog by founder and CEO of FeedBurner2 people · 2 points · first shared 2007 · 1 comments on HN
- 8Ask the Wizard: Creating Competitors1 people · 13 points · first shared 2007 · 3 comments on HN
- 9Restricted Stock vs. Options1 people · 11 points · first shared 2007 · 1 comments on HN
- 10Ask the Wizard: Convertible Debt Jeopardy1 people · 10 points · first shared 2007 · 5 comments on HN
- 11Ask the Wizard: You Always Start the Last Company1 people · 10 points · first shared 2007 · 1 comments on HN
- 12Ask the Wizard: Employee Options and Grant Size1 people · 10 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 13Legal fees--start swearing now1 people · 9 points · first shared 2007 · 1 comments on HN
- 14Series A Financing: How Much to Raise?1 people · 6 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 15Do you have a $100m opportunity? If not, then you might not want VC money1 people · 6 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
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mattgratt · 2010-09-18
Dick Costolo (Twitter COO, Feedburner founder) wrote a great article about the organizational impact of the office lay-out back in 2007 - http://www.burningdoor.com/askthewizard/2007/09/no_offices.html
- he's for Open Plan offices. He says they increase interdepartmental communication, which is true in my experience.
tonystubblebine · 2008-06-04
Interesting to compare this to Dick Costolo's Launch Late to Launch Often:
http://www.burningdoor.com/askthewizard/2007/03/launch_late_to_launch_…
I love the art of speed slides. They definitely made me want to be more decisive.
brett · 2007-06-21
Dick Costolo
http://www.burningdoor.com/askthewizard/
Marc Andreesen has been amazing lately.
sparky · 2012-04-07
'Liquidation preference' is a term that applies to what I think of as 3 or 4 related-but-separate concepts. In the simplest situation, with no vested options or other complications, yes, the investor would get all $100 million, assuming nobody else has a liquidation preference.
Vested options and other term sheet items like 'participating preferred' make things more complicated, so you really have to read the entire term sheet to figure out who gets what under what circumstances.
Good resources:
http://www.burningdoor.com/askthewizard/2007/04/venture_terms_liquidat…
http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2005/01/term-sheet-liquidation-prefere…