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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. I am looking for one or two startups that I can work with on their road to success as a virtual C-level officer, board member, advisor or other relationship.

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Entrepreneur Startup Share Depends on Contribution

Startup Professionals Musings

Ideas are not intellectual property, until they have been converted into patents, trade secrets, trademarks, or copyrights. Sacrifice and time commitment. For example, if your rich uncle is providing all the initial funding, but has no active business role, it might be smart to offer him a 20% slice of the pie.

Startup 101
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Splitting Startup Equity for Your Piece of the Pie

Startup Professionals Musings

Ideas are not intellectual property, until they have been converted into patents, trade secrets, trademarks, or copyrights. Sacrifice and time commitment. For example, if your rich uncle is providing all the initial funding, but has no active business role, it might be smart to offer him a 20% slice of the pie.

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