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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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Otherwise you run the risk that in the future somebody claims that the programming work that they did for you represents their IP and not yours. Founder vesting. Yesterday I wrote a blog posting on founder vesting (see here ). Founder vesting is an insurance policy for all team members involved.

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How to pick a co-founder

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Breakups are hard If you’re going to fall out with your co-founder, do it early, recover the equity into the option pool to keep the company going, and recruit someone else great to fill the missing slot. Build in founder vesting (a.k.a. the “Pre-Nup&# ) to keep the breakup from getting messy.

Cofounder 101