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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

How to Build a Startup (EP245) by Steve Blank: You’ll learn the key steps of the Customer Development process. How to identify and engage the first customers for your product, and how to gather, evaluate and use their feedback to make your product, marketing and business model far stronger.

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Changing Equity Structures for Early Startup Employees

www.instigatorblog.com

Changing Equity Structures for Early Startup Employees Tweet Recently someone asked me for advice on how much equity they should give to their early employees. 1% but they’re not going to be overwhelmed by it, or insanely incentivized by that equity alone. I do believe that early employees should trade salary for equity.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

If you’re working closely with partners who are helping you distribute your product, it’s especially important to make sure they understand who you are, how you speak, and who you serve. You could also go for a larger sum of capital right from the start by pitching an angel investor or a venture capitalist for funding.

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Startup Resources

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Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. free, distributed source code control management system. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Fenwick & West Seed Investment Standard Forms, used by most angels. Venture Hacks Angel List â?? raise money with angel investors.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

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Will developers and designers provide services for a piece of the company? Ideally you can pay them based + equity so that you’ll get their attention and focus on the project. Do you know of any VC or angel investors that are interested in targeting the Hispanic Market? That’s how I got my first 10-50 customers.

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What is the perfect startup team?

www.quora.com

I have come to believe during my time as an operator, entrepreneur and investor that the balance of these skills is so important to the long-term health of a business that if balance is not achieved early then the impact later can be profound - sometimes terminal. They are many more examples. My question is one of timing for the distributor.