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Founder's Dilemmas: Equity Splits

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Founders Dilemmas: Equity Splits. The following is an excerpt from HBS Professor Noam Wasserman’s new book, The Founders Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup. On average, the founders who keep the most control over their company make the least amount of money. Lessons Learned.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

Second, most websites that a non-Chinese would use are blocked including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google Docs, Scribd, Blogspot, Dropbox, New York Times, etc. ” A good number of startups in Beijing seem driven by the VCs – and not the founders. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

Second, most websites that a non-Chinese would use are blocked including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google Docs, Scribd, Blogspot, Dropbox, New York Times, etc. ” A good number of startups in Beijing seem driven by the VCs – and not the founders. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. Get product into customers’ hands. More on that in a moment.

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Why vanity metrics are dangerous

Startup Lessons Learned

If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Go ahead and try it, then come back. Youve just experienced vanity metrics hell.

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Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

Silicon Valley, New York). Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. A veteran board can bring 50-100x more experience into a board meeting than a first time founder. Wastes Founders Time. Here’s how.

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Why Board Meetings Suck – Part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

Silicon Valley, New York). Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. A veteran board can bring 50-100x more experience into a board meeting than a first time founder. Wastes Founders Time. Here’s how.