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

David Teten

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? 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. Development firms have all the current leverage. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

Instead of giving me a valuation that I now have to negotiate, why not just issue me debt and let me buy stock at the seed round valuation (maybe with a risk premium) with that debt. Three Card Monty Corporate Structures. I already own stock in two companies which own no intellectual property. Personas for Customer Development.