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When Does Zynga Become a Value Stock?

Agile VC

Governance/Control – Founder/CEO Mark Pincus has sold a good amount of his stock and owns <20% of shares outstanding, but now essentially has unilateral voting control of the company. So I can appreciate why public stock investors would be leery of Zynga and why the stock price has been punished recently.

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Punch & Pie: How Should Co-Founders Divide Equity?

Agile VC

Additionally, you should put whatever agreement you reach to paper, even if you have not yet incorporated or had your legal counsel draw up the founder stock paperwork. You can then work with your law firm to formally draw up founder common stock paperwork either then or subsequently.

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Punch & Pie: How Should Co-Founders Divide Equity?

Agile VC

Additionally, you should put whatever agreement you reach to paper, even if you have not yet incorporated or had your legal counsel draw up the founder stock paperwork. You can then work with your law firm to formally draw up founder common stock paperwork either then or subsequently.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

So let’s take stock: What do we offer? The company has a checkered past, but it was the first corporation in history to issue stock in exchange for capital. This legal-financial ingenuity lead to the creation of the world’s first stock exchange in 1602: the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. Not in my view.

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Startup Founder Agreements

blog.simeonov.com

I have been thinking a lot recently about how to apply agile development principles to investing and key aspects of startup development such as team building. Both stem from the agile principle of delaying decisions until the last responsible moment. The first post is about agile startup fundraising. An email would do.

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The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

My way of explaining our support and service role to the marketing department was that: Sales is the sharp end of the stick, and marketing at best, is the stick. But while the sales team works for commission, the rest of the employees have equity (stock) in the company. No one was confused after that. Who’s on the Sharp End?

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An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

For example, pre-select the user’s country based on their IP address. It should be possible to switch the formatting based on location, either by prompting for location or by IP lookup. StuntCoders Located in Belgrade, SERBIA StuntCoders is agile team of freelance software engineers who love their call.

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