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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

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Selecting value-added angel investors and advisors can also help with the camaraderie issue, as they can provide advice and counsel during the solitary period of hard-core coding and product development. They might give them too much stock, and even have that stock not subject to vesting provisions.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Your Cap Table is something that deserves constant care and attention. Set any vesting schedules and expiration dates on roughly similar terms, if for no other reason just so you can track all of them correctly. Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Ideally, the economics of a development investment look like those of a cash investment; typically, a seed investor will get no more than about 20% of a company for his capital. Second, the company must eventually own the product development and maintenance functions in-house. 5% vest at clickable prototype.