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Seven Reasons to Become a Founding Entrepreneur ? AGILEVC

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1) Creating an Organization from the Ground Up - Picking co-founders and then later hiring other great folks is always tough, but founding entrepreneurs get to choose their colleagues and together create an organization and culture of their own.

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

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in equity & loans which was ultimately worth >170x ($355M) when DEC went public about a decade later. Should there be a notion of “founder equity” for those individuals who put in the hard work to start a firm and build the brand? Big success was Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), in which ARD invested about $2.1M