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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

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How long should people vest – four years? Investors routinely subject founder shares to vesting, but there is no rule that says that founders cannot, or should not, impose vesting on themselves. And the vesting doesn’t necessarily need to be time-based either. Five years? Buffer Pin It Digg Digg. PHP Veteran.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

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I went to the Columbia Engineering Career Fair in October 2009 and left with ~150 resumes. Tiny, contracting market. Vest, young man. Starting a company without vesting your stock is like getting your girlfriend pregnant on the first date. I wanna be like you when I grow up Can you expand on the vesting topic?

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. 3 – Not the right team. In some cases, the founding team wished they had more checks and balances.

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

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Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. Nothing says contraction negotiation like the smell of cordite. In March 2009, they launched a Beta version and demoed it at FinovateStartup 2009.” John Hinnegan.

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