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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

There has been no shortage of controversy and criticism around the convertible note, a popular investing vehicle that’s used by seed stage and angel investors. → Learn More. As a refresher, a convertible note is a loan that automatically converts into equity upon the closing of a Series A round of financing. Crunchboard.

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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

The next step would be to secure funding. Kenya has many advantages, including experienced software engineers, healthy early-stage startup community, with good incubator and accelerator support, and enthusiastic and motivated young entrepreneurs. Then, how has Kenya built its start-up ecosystem?

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More Tech Startups are LLCs

Austin Startup

Many angel investors, and also strategic investors, are comfortable investing in LLCs, particularly under a convertible security structure that doesn’t immediately result in equity holdings. It requires real financial, tax, legal, etc.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Austin Diversity Evangelists Mellie Price Director of Diversity Capital Factory Managing Director, Health CoLab Dell Medical School Mellie Price is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist, and now university commercialization disruption at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code. Two reasons, we like to have some base experience and.Net makes a great language to hammer out fast solutions that work and are reasonably secure. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you.

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