For purposes of clarity, lawyers don't get 50%, and whatever they do get needs to be approved by the judge. It's often 20-30% depending on work.

Thank you, much appreciated!

It was interesting how much he talked about coachability and providing training. He put more emphasis on that then every other speaker today

One of the most interesting comments during the Q and A was Aaron recommended people don't be blinded by resumes (paraphrasing) "Just because people work at google, they might have 10k people there, doesn't mean they all [google employees\ are qualified or a good fit to join an early stage start up"

Agree! Also love the "Hire Builders not Growers". Lots of founders make the mistake to hire sales people in the very early stages of their startup that have no experience in doing sales for a 4 person startup team (and came from a tech company they joined as employee #400)

I can't imagine you'd come across many folks with the experience you described looking for a sales role at 4 person startup. If a salesperson was employee #4 at a startup, and that startup was successful, I would imagine he or she would pursue a Senior Sales / VP of Sales role at a more established startup vs. a lateral move.

You're right, but what you're looking for is someone who joined a start up early and grew the sales team successfully and now wants to go back go an early stage start up. Some people like building and working with early stage companies

This is helpful, although where are the actual exchanges?

I think bitstamp.net is good. Also, check out coinbase.com and of course, https://localbitcoins.com

This is not a marketing ploy and has nothing to do what our company does. This was a bet between friends, and everyone I told this story to got a kick out of it. That, plus the fact I hoped someone on HN could help me solve this puzzle led us to post the story.

The photo used in the story is not her. I am 100% certain. The photo in the blog is a picture of a random girl who lives in another part of the country, has different physical attributs, and is a different age than the original girl in question

No, there was no hint about what company she worked for. And she didn't apply to work at Elastic / Close.io either

When I told her about the bet she laughed and took it all in stride. She thought it was funny.

Did you tell her about it/get her permission beforehand? Or did she say something when you met her that indicated it would be okay? If so, great. If not, this is still in the creepy / douche canoe area and the fact that she happened to be okay with it after the fact doesn't really change that.