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How to Divide Founder Equity: 4 Criteria to Discuss

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Ideation/IP. Sometimes a portion of founders’ equity splits are attributed to “who came up with the idea” or to actual IP that’s brought into the business at inception. For most software and internet startups, the hard IP coming in isn’t usually an issued patent, which is obviously different for biotech or other kinds of startups.

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Introducing NextView III and Our Focus on the Everyday Economy

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Internet-connected computing is an innovation wave on par with a few historical developments of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Conventional wisdom has it that the internet is towards the end of this cycle — and many VCs are on the hunt for the next platform, whether it be blockchain, or AI, or synthetic biology, or what have you.