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Entreprenuer Network

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

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Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. They might give them too much stock, and even have that stock not subject to vesting provisions. Tags: socalcto startupcto.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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Go vest yourself. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders. However, vesting schedules reduce the difficult negotiation to simply and mechanically exercising the companies pre-agreed right to repurchase stock at the price it was issued.

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A Part-Time CTO - In-House or Outsource?

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Archive Jun 20th Sun In-House or Outsource? Thus, they typically take a vested interested in ensuring whatever they build will be able to evolve with the company. Tags: startupcto. A Part-Time CTO Technology. In Plain English. One of the main challenges of starting a products based company is how do you build your product?

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How to pick a co-founder

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SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Build in founder vesting (a.k.a. Tags: startupcto. Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. Buy it here.

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Building a sweat equity team

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Im confident that this business will be able to compensate these two additional principles along the way, after initial risk of investing their time, and will later reward their vesting with an exit strategy. Tags: startupcto. This isnt really a start-up team-- Ive been doing the business for 14 years. The gist: 1.

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Document Founder Agreements Early & Often

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Make sure you include a basic form of vesting. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Startups and tagged agreement , founder , startup. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Startups and tagged agreement , founder , startup. If they won’t sign it, write down something that they will sign. Good advice.

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