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Silicon Valley Frontlines: Two Tales of "Working For Equity"

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Recently I was offered the opportunity to help a company and the opening gambit from the CEO was "well, we can only pay equity and in your own blog you say that's OK" Er, yes, but when it turns out that you have a staff of 15, all on salaries, a $3.5m New Business Models. Tech Business Environment.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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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). So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.