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How to Start a Startup

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The market price is less than the inconvenience of signing an NDA. They get the same kind of stock and get diluted the same amount in futurerounds. So the deals take longer, dilute you more, and imposemore onerous conditions. 4] Corollary: Avoid starting a startup to sell things to the biggestcompany of all, the government.

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