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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were!

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.) Short answer: no.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

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One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. And I had all the VCs play head games with me. I was baffled. It was 2007. They were envious.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

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Productive Programming - Gabriel Weinberg , August 31, 2010 BIG disclaimer: I'm not formally trained in computer science (aside from two classes at MIT in 2000) and I haven't worked closely with that many programmers or teams (maybe 10 or so). equity debate. Dec 26, 2009). Have convertible notes really won? 10 cents per DAU.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. And I had all the VCs play head games with me. I was baffled. It was 2007. They were envious.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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Mo & I both have double majors with one being finance / econ. Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. Social network app developer and ad network.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). During this year they.