www.drowningamerican.com
JUNE 22, 2012
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Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 17, 2010
LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business).
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www.readwriteweb.com
APRIL 23, 2012
But you can still reel in good people - if youre generous with your equity. Offer them a big chunk of equity, or theyll go to a company thats actually selling its products - and where half of 1% is more likely to one day be worth some real money. Close the equity gap, and hiring will get a lot easier," Ravikant suggests.
www.readwriteweb.com
OCTOBER 7, 2007
But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. To keep the equity we out-sourced.
sivers.org
JUNE 25, 2010
Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing).
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