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Equity for Consultants – Keep it Simple!

www.mattbartus.com

We will grant him/her X% fully diluted shares up front, and every time he/she makes an introduction, he/she will vest in 100 shares.” Imagine when it comes time to sell the company and the buyer says “Tell me how many shares are vested because this will impact how much we pay per share.” Angel Investors.

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Airbnb Reflections

Reid Hoffman

Finally, one of Airbnb’s angel investors, who’s very smart and whom I respect a lot, reached out to me and said, “Hey, you should really look at this. And if the reference checks come back positively, then if I believe at startup is a good opportunity, I can lean in right away.

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

David Teten

Investors are also mining for leads such sources as: – product crowdfunding sites ( Indiegogo *); – tech communities ( Producthunt ); – angel group platforms ( Gust ); – expert networks (e.g., – angel investor networks ( AngelList , FundersClub , OurCrowd , Republic *, SeedInvest ). .

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

Go vest yourself. Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with a large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). Believing that any startup won’t have to deal with stock vesting issues is totally unrealistic. Atlas Venture.

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

www.chubbybrain.com

Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.”. Accel Partners.

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

maplebutter.com

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Do you know of any VC or angel investors that are interested in targeting the Hispanic Market? How should I approach an angel investor?

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

Let me preface by saying I obviously have a vested interest in being wrong about tough times ahead but as the old saying goes, “hope for best, plan for the worst.”. This class of investors is more diversified across categories plus is investing personal money and therefore feels the hit in assets declines first.