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Splitting Startup Equity for Your Piece of the Pie

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the first tough decisions that startup founders have to make is how to allocate or split the equity among co-founders. Another common “failure to start” situation I see is one where the “idea person” insists that the idea is 90% of the value (and 90% of the equity). Expertise can be marketing, technical, financial, or sales.

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Entrepreneur Startup Share Depends on Contribution

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the first tough decisions that startup founders have to make is how to allocate or split the equity among co-founders. Another common “failure to start” situation I see is one where the “idea person” insists that the idea is 90% of the value (and 90% of the equity). Expertise can be marketing, technical, financial, or sales.

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13 Red Flags To Avoid In Your Investor Funding Pitch

Startup Professionals Musings

Even non-profits need money to scale, but their pitch should be to philanthropists, not equity investors. Sales projections are less than one percent market penetration. Equity investors are buying a chunk of your company at today’s value, not what you think it may be worth in five years. Your future depends on it.

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Interview with Tobi Bauckhage, Moviepilot

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Bauckhage talks about the firm's recent funding from DFJ Espirit, T-Venture, Grazia Equity, and others, and how the company has been helping studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney and Paramount market their upcoming releases. MOviepilot is starting to bring its movie recommendations and discovery site to the U.S.,

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Digiday Mobile: The Future Of Mobile Media Live

Tech Zulu Event

Keynote: Jordan Rohan, Managing Director of Equity Research, Internet and Digital Media, Thomas Weisel Partners 9:30am: Keynote Panel: The State of Mobile: The Economics Of Critical Mass? This spotlight session will highlight recent mobile campaigns from Infiniti, Paramount Pictures, Lexus, Intel, U.S.

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