Cofounder Demand Dilution Distribution 
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 23, 2012
One of the first tough decisions that startup founders have to make is how to allocate or split the equity among co-founders. Building a product doesn’t get it distributed and sold. In many cases, one founder has started earlier and brings an important completed piece of work to the table, and that can have great value.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 8, 2010
One of the first tough decisions that startup founders have to make is how to allocate or split the equity among co-founders. Building a product doesn’t get it distributed and sold. In many cases, one founder has started earlier and brings an important completed piece of work to the table, and that can have great value.
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Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
As the idea went from innovating on software & systems to launching a company to rolling it out in the field brought on Rahul Gandhi as his co-founder to physically launch the company. and we were met with weak demand, slow growth and high costs. were more distributed. Seriously, this happens.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 30, 2018
I know that some founders feel uncomfortable with this as though they might somehow be sharing something so confidential that it ultimately hurts you. Many VCs will have a distribution curve where they’ll do a small number of early-stage deals (say $1.5–3 Why shouldn’t most founders just name a price? After all?—?we
Startup Company Lawyer
MARCH 14, 2010
Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet (by WSGR – disclaimer, I represent the Founders Institute and was involved in drafting this document). If new investors get better rights in a future equity financings (such as registration rights, price-based anti-dilution, redemption rights, etc.), Anti-dilution protection.
Reid Hoffman
AUGUST 17, 2021
Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. TRANSCRIPT.
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