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How to Divide Founder Equity: 4 Criteria to Discuss

View from Seed

But delaying or avoiding the conversation often results in it being more awkward than it needs to be. For example, when we started LinkedIn at the end of 2002, each member of the founding team essentially had a couple chunks of founders’ common stock. Ideation/IP.

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Punch & Pie: How Should Co-Founders Divide Equity?

Agile VC

But delaying or avoiding the conversation often results in it being more awkward than it needs to be. For example, when we started LinkedIn at the end of 2002, each member of the founding team essentially had a couple chunks of founders’ common stock. Both of these are typically reflected in the founder equity split.

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Punch & Pie: How Should Co-Founders Divide Equity?

Agile VC

But delaying or avoiding the conversation often results in it being more awkward than it needs to be. For example, when we started LinkedIn at the end of 2002, each member of the founding team essentially had a couple chunks of founders’ common stock. Both of these are typically reflected in the founder equity split.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

It behooves you to strive for similar succinctness and to carry that across all your communications, from web to social media to presentations to just casual conversations at your country club. If you’ve got patent or other IP needs, you may want to engage specialists in those areas. The World will conclude this list for today.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors. But I admit, I started programming assembly at 11 and then did a lot of C++ before moving on to.NET in 2002. of course, you’re allowed to have your opinions. What did we do?

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