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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. So, the first question I usually get is what percent of the company or equity is that person worth? Just because it was your idea doesn’t mean you “deserve” 90% of the equity. Key to required patents or trade secrets.

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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. So the first question I usually get is what percent of the company or equity is that person worth? Just because it was your idea doesn’t mean you “deserve” 90% of the equity. Key to required patents or trade secrets.

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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. So the first question I usually get is what percent of the company or equity is that person worth? Just because it was your idea doesn’t mean you “deserve” 90% of the equity. Key to required patents or trade secrets.

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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. So the first question I usually get is what percent of the company or equity is that person worth? Just because it was your idea doesn’t mean you “deserve” 90% of the equity. Key to required patents or trade secrets.

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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. The first question I usually get is what percent of the company or equity is that person worth? Just because it was your idea doesn’t mean you “deserve” 90 percent of the equity. Key to required patents or trade secrets.

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How Beatshare Is Tackling Music And Messaging

socalTECH

We talked with Eli Aizenstat , the founder and CEO of Beatshare�and still a student--as well as President and longtime technology vet Barry Lieberman about the startup. Photo: Barry Lieberman, President and COO; Eli Aizenstat, Founder & CEO; and Rob Patrick, CTO). What is Beatshare? The video and picture are from our service.

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Decoding Signal From Noise For Wall Street, With Bitvore

socalTECH

Alan Chaney is our Chief Architect, and ran Olivetti Resaerch in the UK. That''s really where the genesis of this comes from, and we have patents around the idea of continually analyzing both structure and semistructured data from a wide variety of sources, simultaneously. That''s the unique nature of this technology.