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How Much Founder Stock Should You Offer Co-Founders?

Startup Professionals Musings

Co-founders only able to work part-time, with responsibility and major income sources elsewhere, don’t carry the same risk as others with more operational responsibility. Amount of venture funding provided. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder. Level of responsibility and time allocated.

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Venture Capital Funding and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove

Up and Running

At the outset, it is worth noting that when it comes to the world of venture funding, I am a bit of an outsider. Until a handful of years ago, I didn’t even know what venture capital was, let alone anything about the complicated process of actually acquiring VC funding. I don’t know how it operates behind closed doors.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Pierce Burnette knows the meaning of “humble beginnings” and has combined her intelligence quotient (IQ), emotional intelligence (EQ), entrepreneurial spirit, and technical knowledge to forge successful careers in engineering, information technology, and education.

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

David Teten

I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. The fine print?

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

www.inc.com

Advisor. ); STARTUP. Office and Operations. We had a rough time early on," says Parker, president and chief technology officer of Roving Software Inc. , Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., Newsletters. Subscriptions. Writing A Business Plan. Naming a Business.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. We’ll update this post with links to his further installments.