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Access Free Compensation Data for Participating in the 13th Annual CompStudy Survey - Deadline: June 30, 2020

Our annual “CompStudy” Entrepreneurship and Compensation surveys are under way right now. If you participate, you’ll get free access to detailed compensation data. The CompStudy surveys focus on private companies in the Technology and Life Sciences industries. We have conducted

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4 Top Myths About Start-up Pay

I’ve been collecting data about startups and compensation since 2001. Here’s what entrepreneurs think they know about startup pay-and what actually happens. Entrepreneurial decision-making is often guided by anecdotes, rules of thumb, and intuition. Sometimes that’s because entrepreneurs don’t have

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Salary Inequality Among Co-Founders: How Common?

I have accumulated a backlog of interesting questions posed to me by founders and investors (and by my students!). For many of them, my quantitative CompStudy data should be able to provide some answers. In this post, I will tackle

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CompStudy Highlights: “Live Tweets” from the Webcast

Earlier this month, we had our annual webcasts to launch the 2009 CompStudy Reports for Technology and Life Sciences ventures. During the webcasts, I live-tweeted (via my @noamwass Twitter account) about interesting data tidbits and comments from the panelists. Below

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Just Launched: 10th Anniversary Compensation Survey

Our annual Entrepreneurship and Compensation surveys are under way right now. Do you want to participate and get free access to compensation data? The surveys focus on private companies in the Information Technology and Life Sciences industries. We have conducted

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The Gender Gap in Startups, Part 2: Compensation

Is there a Gender Salary Gap in private ventures? My previous post showed the percentages of men versus women in IT versus Life Sciences executive teams, across various VP-level and C-level positions. In this post, I focus on salary differences

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The Gender Gap in Startups, Part 1: Women in IT and Life Sciences Ventures

What are the actual percentages of women in startups? Do the numbers differ by industry, stage of venture, or position? And, are women and men paid differently in startups? On a regular basis, I read articles that refer to or

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This Friday: Entrepreneurial Compensation Webcasts

The annual Compensation Reports that are produced using the data from our “CompStudy” entrepreneurship survey are being unveiled this Friday, November 7, during the third annual Compensation Webcast. (The survey data also serves as one of the backbones of the

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Looking for Private-Venture Compensation Data? (2008 Version)

Our annual Entrepreneurship and Compensation surveys are under way right now. Want to participate? The surveys focus on private companies in the Information Technology and Life Sciences industries. (We have conducted the survey annually since 2000 for IT companies, and

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Next Tuesday: Start-up Compensation Webcast

The Compensation Report that we produce annually (using compensation data from the “CompStudy” entrepreneurship survey on which I collaborate with Ernst & Young, WilmerHale, and J. Robert Scott) is almost done. (The survey data also serves as one of the

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