Upcoming Posts: Summer 2006

Here’s a preview of some upcoming posts to this blog:

• “Rich versus King” paper, short version — My “Rich vs. King” paper (past postings: core concept and charts and discussion) was recently selected for the Best Paper Proceedings of this year’s Academy of Management meeting. The good news for anyone who might be interested in reading the paper is that, for the Proceedings, I have to create a 6-page version of the (much-longer) original paper. I’ll post a link to the short version.
• “Golden Handcuffs” paper — This focuses on the different vesting terms used by boards to increase retention of founders (who have their own psychological handcuffs keeping them at their ventures) versus non-founders, executives with more versus less years of work experience, anticipated exit (acquisition vs. IPO), and other factors. I’ll be posting initial econometric results and charts, along with my interpretation of the core results.
• The VC Value-added Gap — To help them identify opportunities in early-stage VC, two of my MBA students, Matt Louie and Cali Tran, did a study this year to identify the biggest areas where — from the founder’s perspective — VCs are under-delivering in their potential value added. I’ll be posting charts, tables, and text from the executive summary of their final report.
• Splitting the Pie data — Initial charts and descriptive data from the equity-split data collected in this year’s survey. I’ll have further postings on this as the paper evolves over the summer. I may also post some mini-cases of the equity-splitting approaches and negotiations experienced by founders I have studied.

This is in addition to several summary charts and discussions from the non-salary parts of this year’s Entrep Survey. Feel free to continue to post requests here….