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How Well Versed Are You In Startup Investor Jargon?

Startup Professionals Musings

After viewing your slide deck, if investors are still interested in your startup, they will ask for a deep-dive meeting to drill in on any hard questions before commencing due diligence. Sweat equity. This term is used to describe non-traditional ways to incent growth such as social-media and viral marketing.

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How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea

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About Virtuosi Media. Social Media. Many partnerships don’t make it past this stage, devolving into a tangled mess about who owns the idea and the code and what the compensation should be. Software development is like an iceberg – 90% of it is under the surface. -->. Our Newsletters Contact Us. Our Services.

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Silicon Valley Frontlines: Two Tales of "Working For Equity"

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Compensation-wise the biggest challenge is insuring people are respectful of my time and skills (when they don't write real checks for hourly or project work they don't tend to be quite as diligent on this as one would like!). That's why it makes sense to get some combination of cash/deferred cash and equity, if you can.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

Our venture was selected for competitive accelerator spots & recognition from media and mentors from Austin, Chicago and Silicon Valley to work on this problem and capture the value its solution provided. swing for the fences category-building B2C software capital?—?wasn’t wasn’t readily available in Austin. (We

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. A month ago, half way through my angel funds raised from family members, I decided to review the progress I’ve made and figure out what still needs to happen to make this a viable business. You should sign up for our newsletter here. During this year they.