Up and Running

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Investors like valuation to relate to actual business numbers, such as sales, gross margin (price less direct costs), and burn rate or fixed costs. I can take the money you want, hire some people, and become your competitor.” Scalability or leverage is easy to understand when you think about products compared to services.

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Valuation Oregon Burn Rate Angel Groups 136

thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

We entrepreneurs constantly try to refine our product or model, so it is only natural to think that we should refine ourselves. Who must be a co founder and who can remain a hired principal? When I find, and hire on options, the three perfect CEs/directors must I consider them co founders and treat them accordingly?

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Founder Preferred Stock Startup 40

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Then you can gradually transformyourself from a consulting company into a product company, and haveyour clients pay your development expenses. To be a startup, a company hasto be a product business, not a service business. Infact, the more prominent the angel, the less likely they are tobelong to a group.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76