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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. Management has the wrong pedigree, is geographically undesirable, competes in the wrong industry, and/or has a business model that lacks "scalability credibility" with the venture community.

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How much equity for investors and employees?

dondodge.typepad.com

Community is more powerful than money or technology » August 11, 2007 How much equity for investors and employees? i also think Leo Dirac's post & presentation on liquidation preferences at Gnomedex was very enlightening as well: [link] regards, - dave mcclure Posted by: Dave | August 12, 2007 at 02:45 AM Thanks Don.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Life Beyond Code

Over approximately 100 roundtables, I have personally coached more than 400 early-stage entrepreneurs, and between the free and the premium program, as well as the blog, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn we have a community of more than 200,000 people engaged in the initiative at various levels. Numerous lessons.