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5 Equity Distribution Parameters For Key Contributors

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus the real discussion must start with who will be doing the work, providing the funding, and delivering results. Value factors include your related product breadth and depth, relationships with thought leaders, key vendors, and large potential customers. Building the product may be the easy part of your startup challenge.

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5 Keys To Negotiating Your Fair Share Of Any Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus the real discussion must start with who will be doing the work, providing the funding, and delivering results. Value factors include your related product breadth and depth, relationships with thought leaders, key vendors, and large potential customers. Building the product may be the easy part of your startup challenge.

Startup 174
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10 Entrepreneur Milestones That Make Funding Easy

Startup Professionals Musings

Every investor expects to see some business traction, both before and after a funding event. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient. If you have neither, and choose to approach an investor, you will get no attention, and probably never again get a shot at funding with that investor.

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5 Criteria For Splitting Equity In Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus the real discussion must start with who will be doing the work, providing the funding, and delivering results. Value factors include your related product breadth and depth, relationships with thought leaders, key vendors, and large potential customers. Building the product may be the easy part of your startup challenge.

Equity 95
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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. Value factors include your related product breadth and depth, relationships with thought leaders, key vendors and large potential customers. Building the product may be the easy part of your startup challenge.

Equity 104
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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. I might also be concerned about taking my idea directly to a large, well funded competitor who is know for innovation. You’ll discover flaws and hopefully correct them.

Startup 211
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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.