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Sayahh’s Financial Statements For August 2011

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Now that Dick and Jane have added a CTO to SayAhh’s founding team, they’ve turned their full attention to working on their product. The largest expense a company usually has at this stage is salaries. However, Dick, Jane and Praveena have decided to initially forgo salaries which helps them conserve cash in the near term.

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

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Virtual Office. 20 Aug 2011 | 33 Comments | posted by Peter Chee | in entrepreneurship , funding. The salary offered (and accepted) was quite low. I can probably help you develop a negotiating strategy, and am willing to consult initially by phone free of charge. . You’d have to look at your stock options contract.

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

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January 11th, 2011 the Chubby Team 34 Comments. 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. broadstuff says: January 11, 2011 at.

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Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? - Quora

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Early employees are paid a salary from day 1, don't have to have the reputation/connections to raise money, take on much less risk, and often have much more information about the company (team so far, financials, product traction/progress) when they decide to join than the founders do when they found the company.

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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. March 25, 2011 at 7:00 am. March 25, 2011 at 12:58 pm. March 25, 2011 at 12:59 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:04 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:12 pm. » 510 Responses.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

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They can make good money consulting or working as an employee of another company. They can easily get great benefits and a six figure salary. Sunday, January 9, 2011 Dale says: I’m a software engineer who has been searching for a “tech co-founder” gig for the past few months. If yes, hire a contract developer.