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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

Both Sides of the Table

But more spend = more viral opps = more revenue down the road. >50% of our revenue in now viral. I raised $500k in seed money to start the company. 2)&# it’s not fair to the rest of the employees who don’t get to take money out. When we moved to Palo Alto we rented a place.

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Get Off My Lawn! Crazy Kids and Their Sex, Drugs and Startup Advice!

This is going to be BIG.

A founder will raise one party round worth of seed money and they''ll go teach a class on how to raise venture capital. These represent the bulk of the people commenting, retweeting and liking your posts and sending it viral. in funding, and expand from 3 employees to 13—three of which I’d recruited and hired.

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