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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. Author : Jordan Cooper. Believing that any startup won’t have to deal with stock vesting issues is totally unrealistic. Post-Mortem Title : BricaBox: Goodbye World! Company : BricaBox.

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Kevin Rose's 10 Tips for Entrepreneurs

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7: Invest in Advisors : Give away a small amount of stock to advisors (which they can vest after a few years) who you can call on in a pickle or for general advice as issues arise. Tell them your story, and why your site/widget/product/service matters to their audience. Any words, thanks, Elyssa Pallai. wait for your more good article.