Stock Based Compensation - Founder Awards (Details) - Founder Awards	1 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2014 USD ($) item shares	Sep. 30, 2013 shares
Stock-based compensation disclosures
Shares granted		2,403,845
Vesting percentage at issuance of Series A Preferred Stock		25.00%
Monthly vesting percentage after issuance of Series A Preferred Stock		1.5625%
Number of founders not providing service \| item	1
Shares repurchased	285,457
Payments for repurchase of shares \| $	$ 74

Number of founders no longer providing service (whether as a consultant, employee, director, or advisor).

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Cash outflow for repurchase of unvested shares.

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Represents the percentage of stock awards vesting each month subsequent to the initial inception of vesting.

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Percentage of vesting of share-based compensation awards upon issuance of shares of Series A Preferred Stock

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Number of unvested shares repurchased by the entity during the period.

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The number of grants made during the period on other than stock (or unit) option plans (for example, phantom stock or unit plan, stock or unit appreciation rights plan, performance target plan).

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (c)(2)(iii)(1)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6415400&loc=d3e5070-113901

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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