Both Sides of the Table
MAY 9, 2011
I covered what I call “the co-founder mythology.&# Either you’re not technical and you think you need a technical co-founder or vice-versa. It is increasingly popular to have “founder dating&# or “startup weekend hackathons&# of some variety or the other. Hire your co-founder. Vested over 4 years.
Steve Blank
JULY 19, 2010
As a founder I fought with VC’s over vesting as they brought in a new CEO and walked me out the door. As a board member I negotiated with founding CEO’s over vesting when I thought it was their time to go. The fallacy is believing that a founders value is evenly distributed over four years. Preparing For Chaos.
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Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 17, 2009
The meme was kicked off by Chris Dixon with this post saying that term sheets need to be simplified and align investor / founder interests. There was one firm that offered me an entrepreneur friendly “vanilla&# term sheet and that was True Ventures , which is why I believe they are attracting great early-stage entrepreneurs.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 17, 2009
These periods of time can leave a founder very vulnerable in the future. These same people will join you and your one other co-founder (maximum) 6 months later when you’ve established the company, done your Powerpoint deck, built a prototype or product and started fund raising discussions. Start building your team early.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 29, 2011
Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.
venturehacks.com
FEBRUARY 24, 2010
SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. One founder companies can work, against the odds (hello, Mark Zuckerberg).
venturehacks.com
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
They don’t even try to get market price for their investment; they limit their holdings to leave the founders enough stock to feel the company is still theirs.” That’s a core argument for early-stage high-value angels, seed funds, and Y Combinator. Ask the Attorney” – Founder Vesting. Learn more.
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