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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Do you wish there was a product to help companies “Get things done” by leveraging your own employees, your employees’ networks, and more broadly other influencers around you? . Once we’ve executed all the steps above, we go to VCs and raise seed capital of $1-2m. If the answer is yes to any of these, keep reading.

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Do you wish there was a product to help advocacy organizations and companies “Get things done” by leveraging their own employees, their employees’ networks, and more broadly other influencers around them? . This work is unpaid, as with any other startup at the pre-seed stage. If the answer is yes to any of these, keep reading.

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The Care And Feeding Of A Startup

YoungUpstarts

By comparison, Brian Morgan, who founded Adventure Life , from Missoula, Montana, started in 1998 with 16 employees and a decade later was earning $11 million after an initial investment capital of $3,000 spent on a laptop and two brochures. Leverage the power of the Internet to reach a global audience.

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4 Things Every Startup Needs As Soon as Possible 

The Startup Magazine

When it comes to starting your own business, there are tons of strategies you can follow all over the internet. From startup costs to creating a detailed training manual for employees, some things you need and some can wait for another day. Photo by Clark Tibbs on Unsplash.

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How to Divide Founder Equity: 4 Criteria to Discuss

View from Seed

You don’t really need to worry about how much common stock will be set aside for an employee option pool or how much preferred stock might be issued from raising future VC rounds in order to determine an equitable founder stock division. Next, those that were forgoing some or all salary prior to Series A got an additional chunk for that.

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Punch & Pie: How Should Co-Founders Divide Equity?

Agile VC

You don’t really need to worry about how much common stock will be set aside for an employee option pool or how much preferred stock might be issued from raising future VC rounds in order to determine an equitable founder stock division. Next, those that were forgoing some or all salary prior to Series A got an additional chunk for that.

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The Summer Solstice And Seed Stage Squeeze

Haystack

When I put all of this together, what I see is: In the Bay Area, the seed stage is getting squeezed from all sides during this summer solstice of. 1/ Bottoms-Up Competition – Seed funds are getting scooped by the well-heeled alumni of today’s web scale companies.