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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

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Piercing the Corporate Veil – Sweat Equity Consulting. 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.” If you did, why would you be consulting for sweat equity instead of investing as a VC or for yourself?

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Things to Avoid When Recruiting Co-founders

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Unless your name is Eric Ries and it’s called “ lean startup.&# (Seriously, you’d be surprised how often this comes up.) …and lastly Don’t Negotiate with Me I’m sure that there are a lot of people who will disagree with me on this because it’s largely a question of corporate culture.