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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

The world is much safer for non-founders. There is nothing wrong with non-founders – by design they are the overwhelming majority of companies. But the worst case scenario in my mind is more than 2 co-founders where everybody sub-optimizes. Founder vesting. Get customer input.

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How to pick a co-founder

venturehacks.com

Breakups are hard If you’re going to fall out with your co-founder, do it early, recover the equity into the option pool to keep the company going, and recruit someone else great to fill the missing slot. Build in founder vesting (a.k.a. the “Pre-Nup&# ) to keep the breakup from getting messy.

Cofounder 101