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5 Equity Distribution Parameters For Key Contributors

Startup Professionals Musings

You need to find the skills or experience you don’t have in business, technology, or money. Building the product may be the easy part of your startup challenge. Key to required patents or trade secrets. In many cases, one of the cofounders may bring some work in progress that can be patented, trademarked, or copyrighted.

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5 Keys To Negotiating Your Fair Share Of Any Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

You need to find the skills or experience you don’t have in business, technology, or money. Building the product may be the easy part of your startup challenge. Key to required patents or trade secrets. In many cases, one of the co-founders may bring some work in progress that can be patented, trademarked, or copyrighted.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte.

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5 Criteria For Splitting Equity In Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

You need to find the skills or experience you don’t have in business, technology, or money. Building the product may be the easy part of your startup challenge. Key to required patents or trade secrets. In many cases, one of the co-founders may bring some work in progress that can be patented, trademarked, or copyrighted.

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How Much Founder Stock Should You Offer Co-Founders?

Startup Professionals Musings

You need to find the skills or experience you don’t have in business, technology or money. Building the product may be the easy part of your startup challenge. Key to required patents or trade secrets. In many cases, one of the co-founders may bring some work in progress that can be patented, trademarked or copyrighted.

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Are You Getting Your Fair Share Of Startup Equity?

Startup Professionals Musings

You need to find the skills or experience you don’t have in business, technology, or money. Building the product may be the easy part of your startup challenge. Key to required patents or trade secrets. In many cases, one of the co-founders may bring some work in progress that can be patented, trademarked, or copyrighted.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. As you may know Google recently restructured so that Larry could spend more time on big innovations – on “moonshots.”