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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE SEPTEMBER 2, 2009 Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table? If a company has reached a level of success, has been around for a few years and you believe the company has potential to break out into a much bigger company then you should let the founders take money off of the table. Not FU money, but “feed the family&# money. He’s been at it since 2005. I had a 2.5 | | | | | | |
| | | WWW.PAULGRAHAM.COM OCTOBER 23, 2010 How to Start a Startup March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) You need three things to create a successful startup: to start withgood people, to make something customers actually want, and to spendas little money as possible. The way a startup makes money is to offer people bettertechnology than they have now. | | TECHCRUNCH.COM OCTOBER 23, 2010 From Nothing To Something. How To Get There. This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. If you want to waste nine months trying to raise VC money for that idea, great. need money for the servers. | | | | | | | |
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WWW.PAULGRAHAM.COM | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 2010 How to Fund a Startup
November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. The advantage of raising money from friends and family is thattheyre easy to find. This stops with VC-scale money. MORE >>
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