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How to pick a co-founder

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What you don’t know Business founders who don’t code use bad proxies for picking technical co-founders (&# 10 years with Java!&# ). You can find it here: [link] Reply # Sharel Omer · Jan 18, 2010 Thanks Naval, great post to go back to and remember how to do it right, when there is no specific right.

Cofounder 101
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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

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Chris Dixon wrote a blog post about “ The one number you should know about your equity grant “ The one number you should know about your equity grant is the percent of the company you are being granted (in options, shares, whatever – it doesn’t matter – just the % matters). Percent of the outstanding option pool: meaningless.

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The Future of Startup Funding

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August 2010 Two years ago I wrote about what I called " a huge, unexploitedopportunity in startup funding :" the growing disconnect betweenVCs, whose current business model requires them to invest largeamounts, and a large class of startups that need less than theyused to. 13 ]Im not saying option pools themselves will go away.

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