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5 Equity Distribution Parameters For Key Contributors

Startup Professionals Musings

Value factors include your related product breadth and depth, relationships with thought leaders, key vendors, and large potential customers. Building the product may be the easy part of your startup challenge. Your idea is not intellectual property yet, so it has no inherent value.

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5 Keys To Negotiating Your Fair Share Of Any Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Value factors include your related product breadth and depth, relationships with thought leaders, key vendors, and large potential customers. Building the product may be the easy part of your startup challenge. Your idea is not intellectual property yet, so it has no inherent value.

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5 Criteria For Splitting Equity In Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Value factors include your related product breadth and depth, relationships with thought leaders, key vendors, and large potential customers. Building the product may be the easy part of your startup challenge. Your idea is not intellectual property yet, so it has no inherent value.

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10 Entrepreneur Milestones That Make Funding Easy

Startup Professionals Musings

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Get a real customer and real revenue. Build qualified advisory board.

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Entrepreneur Startup Share Depends on Contribution

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are recognized as an expert in the business area of your startup, with a good reputation, and you know all the key vendors and customers, your value is huge. Pre-existing intellectual property. Ideas are not intellectual property, until they have been converted into patents, trade secrets, trademarks, or copyrights.

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Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Steve Blank

If they decide to buy, large companies can: license/acquire intellectual property. In response, venture capital firms like Sequoia and Andreessen/Horowitz are hiring new partners just to work with their portfolio companies and match them to corporations. Five Types of Innovation to Buy.

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10 Keys to Startup Traction That Investors Look For

Startup Professionals Musings

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Get a real customer and real revenue. Build qualified advisory board.