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

thestartuplawyer.com

He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. You can start by examining every aspect of the co-founder relationship. Don’t leave anything out just because you and your co-founders already talked about it.

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How to Do Research on VCs (Written by a VC)

View from Seed

In a typical first meeting between a VC and team of co-founders, the investor typically ends up asking more questions than the founders. This almost goes without saying, but odds are good that your other founder friends in the startup ecosystem have crossed paths with some of the VC firms you might be researching.

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11 Things I've learned from running a micro VC in the last year

Hippoland

And I enjoy working with founders immensely. And then later, when the fund needs money, the fund does a capital call. Typically, capital calls are done over the course of 3 years. The capital calls are not done on a perfectly regular cadence, because sometimes a fund will need money sooner than later.

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11 Things I've learned from running a micro VC in the last year

Hippoland

And I enjoy working with founders immensely. And then later, when the fund needs money, the fund does a capital call. Typically, capital calls are done over the course of 3 years. The capital calls are not done on a perfectly regular cadence, because sometimes a fund will need money sooner than later.

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What Makes a Great Independent Board Member?

Both Sides of the Table

When you set up a board it is often initially a combination of the founders and the early investors. It can start 2–1 founders to investors and then sometimes moves to 3–2 but sometime around the A, B or C round the idea of “independent” directors comes up. When an entrepreneur takes on investors who take equity (i.e.

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