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The Acquihire Market for Early Stage Startups is Ice Cold. One Better Strategy? Announce You’re For Sale.

Hunter Walker

And during our first few years we leaned in to help teams find the right home when it didn’t work out for them as an independent company. Cash is at a premium so it’s not going to cap tables (preferred or common walk away from the deals with no dinero). of the time my answer is no f **g way].

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Startup Founder Agreements

blog.simeonov.com

It outlines key points of agreement between founders around IP ownership, equity ownership, vesting, etc. For example, without a clear vehicle (a company) to contribute intellectual property into, a founder who walks away may mean that the future company won’t own its own IP. An email would do. The FastIgnite one is two pages.

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