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

David Teten

intrapreneurs, e.g., the employee of GE who is tasked with launching a new business. They’re well aware of the conventional VC bias against funding companies which externally develop their technology, but they do have relevant skills. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs. accelerators, e.g., Dreamit, ER Accelerator, Techstars, Y Combinator.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

Some have been as co-founder, most have been as a consultant with the possibility of becoming an paid employee, “as soon as we close our funding round.” Not that they were trying to take advantage of me necessarily, but it happened because of the deal structure. The ‘A’ in company A stands for Advantage.