Steve Blank
JUNE 15, 2010
So if you’re the founder of a startup, you may want to consider who you take money from. Is Your VC Founder Friendly? Do they “get&# Customer Development ? How many of their founders are still with their company? How many of their founders are still with their company? Do They Get Customer Development?
www.startuplessonslearned.com
MAY 4, 2012
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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Hunter Walker
FEBRUARY 20, 2021
Great founders are always recruiting. A sales and marketing tactic as much (or even more) than a customer development one, try setting up a Customer Council Advisory Board. That said, there are three types of advisors that I don’t see as commonly utilized by early stage startups — at least the ones we’re not advising.
blog.aparttimecto.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Unless you’re fortunate to have one or more technical founders, you’ll quickly be faced with this simple question: Do we hack out a prototype somehow, find a developer or outsource the development? Create the prototype yourself Pros: Cheap - this only takes up the time of your and your founders.
www.instigatorblog.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
David Crow just posted about this very topic: Founders vs. Early Employees and shows the Venture Hacks chart. But nevertheless, I do think that the first few employees – especially those ever-critical developers – need to be more properly incentivized and made to feel closer to founders than employees.
The Startup Lawyer
MARCH 17, 2012
Outsourcing your startup’s early technical development to a dev shop is like riding an elephant in a horseback polo match. With the surge in demand for technical co-founders, many startups have no choice but to contract with dev shops to build their idea. A dev shop is never a substitute for a technical co-founder.
David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
What are the terms of their relationship with the founder? I’ve also asked this question on Quora.There, I ask for advice on how to best structure this for all parties: The development shop, the founders (outside of the dev shop), and potential outside investors. What are the timelines? The discounts? The cliffs? The fine print?
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