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The leap from employee to entrepreneur – Small Business Spotlight

Up and Running

Sulaiman Sanni and his partner Ben Lamson were both working for Meltwater Group, a large, well known Software as a Service company, Su as a social media consultant and Ben as a sales manager. version, and talking to an advisory board and seed round investors already.” Ben Lamson and Sulaiman Sanni, WeDidIt cofounders.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Mr. Parekh serves on various advisory boards of start-up internet companies. He has been granted two software patents, and has multiple patents pending. He was named among the World’s Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review and received the TR100 award in 2002. Tuesday, Jan 17th, 2012.

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

thinkspace.com

Equity for Board of Directors and Advisory Board. Typically for an Advisory Board it ranges from 1/10th of percent to 1/2% and for Board of Directors from 1/2% to 2%. I was originally hired as a contractor, developing a SaaS app from scratch, including DB design and coding. Total Points 106 142. %

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90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

betashop.com

To this day, not a single pixel gets on our website or apps without my input, review, and approval. Likewise, not a single designer gets approved to sell on Fab without Bradford’s input, review, and approval. We do twice-yearly reviews of all Fab team members. Even executives need reviews. It’s that important.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #4: Seven lessons learned on the journey from founder to CEO

Austin Startup

Sometimes these vacations would give me the clarity of mind to let go of an executive that I had been holding on to for too long (perhaps due to loyalty even though they had scaled out). And then Rafa Pereira, our Director of Software Engineering, really pushed us to embrace OKRs three quarters ago. He serves as our COO and acting CFO.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #18: The strength of natural network effects

Austin Startup

I encourage startup founders or anyone interested in social commerce to read it: [link] When you think about Big Data Applications (a term coined in 2012 by Raj De Datta in this TechCrunch article ), Bazaarvoice is one as Raj points out in his article. 8, which was released earlier this week. I’ve also heard BDAs called SaaS 3.0

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Tools for Hackathons – added Dec 2012. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Code Igniter. code spaces (svn).