Cofounder Developer Dilution Sales 
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
Quick summary: Be careful not to have too many co-founders. it’s the most expensive dilution you’ll ever face. And you need to be careful about giving up control to cofounders as much as VCs. I don’t think VCs care as much about co-founders & economics as people think.
ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 28, 2010
Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup is the new book by David Cohen , founder and CEO of TechStars, and Brad Feld , managing director of Foundry Group. Below is his chapter, Avoid Co-Founder Conflict. A perennial favorite is to decide that each founder should own an equal share. For what reasons?
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 9, 2018
I left the meeting and had to attend a 3-hour board meeting where two founders have been fighting and each want the other one fired. I developed a list of questions to ask you next time we speak?—?especially I always tell people that fund raising is a sales process. Some were interesting, some weren’t. Was that a blip?
blog.nahurst.com
JULY 19, 2010
The graphic below balances the risks cofounders take with their relative contributions to help answer this question. This covers one of the most common situations I encounter: For a pre-funding web startup whose team includes only a non-technical cofounder, how much equity should an incoming technical cofounder get?
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 14, 2017
I read commentary or Twitter or blogs and realize that there are also strongly held convictions that there are these evil VCs who do terrible things to mostly altruistic founders. And of course we help with business development introductions and with fund raising events. Often we are asked to get involved in executive-level recruiting.
Business Plan Blog
OCTOBER 4, 2013
If you have a technical background and you are focused on product development, consider a co-founder with a sales and marketing background that can focus on selling your world class product. Rather, give titles such as VP of Engineering, Product/Technology, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc. Seed to Series A.
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. Sam & Rahul have worked closely together on “innovate & operate” since the earliest days of MakeSpace. Seriously, this happens.
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