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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

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Many of these businesses were what First Round Capital called FNACs (features, not companies – this acronym has always stuck with me). How many people will you hire in the first 24 months and in which sequence. Don’t know the running rate for engineers? Too aggressive about the rate of customer adoption?

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Why Co-Founders Are a Startup's Biggest Liability | The Startup Lawyer

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Who must be a co founder and who can remain a hired principal? When I find, and hire on options, the three perfect CEs/directors must I consider them co founders and treat them accordingly? Who must be a co founder and who can remain a hired principal? He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder.