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Entrepreneur Startup Share Depends on Contribution

Startup Professionals Musings

Expertise can be marketing, technical, financial, or sales. Ideas are not intellectual property, until they have been converted into patents, trade secrets, trademarks, or copyrights. Sacrifice and time commitment. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO? Building a product doesn’t get it distributed and sold.

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Splitting Startup Equity for Your Piece of the Pie

Startup Professionals Musings

Expertise can be marketing, technical, financial, or sales. Ideas are not intellectual property, until they have been converted into patents, trade secrets, trademarks, or copyrights. Sacrifice and time commitment. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO? Building a product doesn’t get it distributed and sold.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

We initially hired him as our in-house recruiter. Tim did such a great job of hiring the best, brightest people so quickly that our company infrastructure wasn’t keeping up. Our IT group was not able to support all of the new people we hired. As CTO, it was my job to solve this problem. Tim was my right arm at L90.

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