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How Much Founder Stock Should You Offer Co-Founders?

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus the real discussion must start with who will be doing the work, providing the funding and delivering results. Building the product may be the easy part of your startup challenge. Key to required patents or trade secrets. Every previous experience filing and winning a patent is a rare and valuable asset.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

.” When Elon Musk set out to build SpaceX he wasn’t greeted with enthusiasm from the space community not used to having a private enterprise challenge the government funded space exploration of NASA. We hired outside experts. We checked patents. We checked charge times. Time will tell. I was not fried.