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Building a sweat equity team

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

where I can learn about how to build a sweat equity team? Rather, it is a proposal for sweat-equity investors. Mark Walsen Mark Walsen Thursday, October 09, 2008 Deleting … Approving … I think you would be better off hiring people, rather than trying to convince them to work for free in exchange for equity.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

We went with equity because ivestors would prefer to get equity for the following reasons: 1. One of the reasons notes have become so popular is that the equity documents were too expensive. Specifically it would benefit from a clause nullifying these drag-along rights in case of a proposed sale to a preferred-affiliated entity.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. 4Degrees helps leverage your network for sourcing. This is harder than it sounds.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

previously explained that it usually requires some equity, but here is some more step by step practical advice. Some of the traffic-tactics we use involve good old fashioned payola: paid search, banner ads, affiliate programs, etc. CompStudy 2008 Report on Equity and Cash Compensation at Technology Startups. Let's recap.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

This resulted in a recapitilization of the equity away from 33% each (in my favor) and then the ultimate dismissal of one of the co-founders prior to the A-round. Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products? At least Pidgin folks openly say “we are GTK+ front-end to libpurple&#.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). launchpad (bzr only, also only open source projects).