Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Early stage entrepreneurs will also still likely value experienced advice on company-building from seasoned venture capitalists. In these early times, some startups may be hesitant to pursue this path because of the uncertainty and perceived risk. Shift of value from equity holders to token holders. Fuzzy Governance.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? Not surprisingly, the list above also is ranked from least to most equity stake in an investment for the investor, relative to the cash they invest. equity that belongs to departed cofounders)? mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs. What are the timelines?

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

At this stage you’re essentially selling yourself and your cofounders. That’s why much early stage funding is “Friends and Family”; your friends and family naturally overrate you and/or can’t say no. You’re less vulnerable, pay less equity for your funding, and you have some very specific things to talk about.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt? Practical Advice for Raising Early Stage Venture Capital – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. More Vacation is the Secret Sauce – [link]. – [link].

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. He can help you determine whether to outsource development (locally or overseas) or build an inhouse team.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

Other Topics Covered I also covered topics that are covered more thoroughly in the following posts: Document Your MVP for a Developer. I’m a long way into development and I’m 90% done and we are having issues getting it completed See Symptoms of a Weak Development Team and Poor Software Developers - Pull the Plug Early.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# To that I say baloney.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. But when the finally convert the debt to equity the round gets filed with the SEC and thus journalists often pick up on it. They also avoid Reg D.

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

This covers one of the most common situations I encounter: For a pre-funding web startup whose team includes only a non-technical cofounder, how much equity should an incoming technical cofounder get? This is an area that varies widely and can significantly impact how much equity a technical cofounder receives (if they take more salary).

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Award contract - Negotiate a software development contract.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

When it comes to early stage investing – it’s all gut. Does it make sense to spend this time speaking about your early stage start-up when your product has not even entered Alpha testing? Typically its way more important to build product, and pull in early users to give you that feedback vs. speaking about it.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Joel of Fog Creek says: “We didn’t start with a particular product in mind: our goal was simply to build the kind of software company where we would want to work, one in which programmers and software developers are the stars and everything else serves only to make them productive and happy.&#

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Someone who is egotistical enough to call themselves a rockstar, yet humble enough not to want 99% of the equity? Then with the simple product built, if you can prove it has legs, finding a developer to come aboard and build it out will be easy. Just go to a meetup or post an ad promising equity. This person does not exist.

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