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5 Equity Distribution Parameters For Key Contributors

Startup Professionals Musings

Value is embodied in previous success with investors, proven problem-solving ability, and having built and executed a business plan with minimal resources. Value factors include your related product breadth and depth, relationships with thought leaders, key vendors, and large potential customers. Amount of venture funding provided.

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5 Keys To Negotiating Your Fair Share Of Any Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Value is embodied in previous success with investors, proven problem solving ability, and having built and executed a business plan with minimal resources. Value factors include your related product breadth and depth, relationships with thought leaders, key vendors, and large potential customers. Amount of venture funding provided.

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Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

Background This post partly really came about as a result of a great conversation yesterday with David Croslin a former CTO at HP who recently conducted an interesting experiment. This is actually fairly common and I think it’s a bit challenging in that the technology roles (from technology advisor to CTO) in a startup vary widely.

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5 Criteria For Splitting Equity In Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Value is embodied in previous success with investors, proven problem solving ability, and having built and executed a business plan with minimal resources. Value factors include your related product breadth and depth, relationships with thought leaders, key vendors, and large potential customers. Amount of venture funding provided.

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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. Chief Human Resources Officer (VP Personnel). More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. Startups that come to me and ask me to sign an NDA in order to get Free Startup CTO Consulting really are missing it. NDAs or Other Protection So you decide you want to be able to share with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc.

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. Chief Human Resources Officer (VP Personnel). More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag.

Startup 97