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The Equity Equation

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Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. The Equity Equation. As this nuclear winter of venture hacks continues, I thought you might enjoy our thoughts on Paul Graham’s The Equity Equation. ” Read the rest of The Equity Equation first; it is great. You have to pay market rates regardless of the equity equation.

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Startups: Cut the Wheat from the Chaff on Quora

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L et’s face it: with the amount of information we get on a daily basis through browsing and reading news, RSS, Twitter, Facebook and other sources, it’s becoming increasingly harder to cut the wheat from the chaff. How much should it cost for a bootstrapped, lean startup to incorporate (or form an LLC)? Nothing else.

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The Option Pool Shuffle

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Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS The Option Pool Shuffle by Nivi on April 10th, 2007 “Follow the money card!&# – The Inside Man, Three-Card Shuffle Summary: Don’t let your investors determine the size of the option pool for you.

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Using warrants to pump up your VC valuation

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Perspectives on issues affecting founders, startups and investors from a veteran startup lawyer in Silicon Valley. You have a 20% option pool, so you know this will take your ownership down from 80% to 60%, and the VC will get 25%. Option Pool. Option Pool. Equity for Consultants - Keep.

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Founders versus early employees

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We talk about the founders of startups and companies. Steve Blank divides the individuals associated with startups as: Founders Early Employees (Employees # 1-25) Later Employees (Employees # 26-125) The majority of his division is about the temperament of the individual as related to risk and dealing with chaos and uncertainty.

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How to pick a co-founder

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Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. 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. FAQs What if the right guy already has his own startup? This post is by Naval Ravikant.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors: Part 2.

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Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors, Part 2 by Nivi on February 27th, 2008 Here are more frequently asked questions about advisors. Finally, there is a beauty to paying in equity rather than an equivalent amount of cash.