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

David Teten

They’re well aware of the conventional VC bias against funding companies which externally develop their technology, but they do have relevant skills. Customer development would be reduced to a single person exercise that could be repeated in parallel dozens of times over, ultimately yielding 30+ companies a year.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

All names redacted.). 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.