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8 Myths Technologists Believe That Sink Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s why I recommend that they find a co-founder who loves business challenges, including marketing and finance. I usually envision a 50-50 ownership split for their efforts, but every engineer believes the technology side deserves the majority share. Most founders bootstrap product development.

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What is Sweat Equity Worth?

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Human Resources Play Video Shark Tanks Barbara Corcoran on Bootstrapping a Growing a Business (Video). When you're getting started, sweat equity is often a critical component of your negotiating leverage with co-founders, early stage employees and others who aren't paid market wages to help you grow your business.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids”

Austin Startup

I discuss category creation with one of the co-authors of Play Bigger , Christopher Lochhead, in episode #232 of Legends and Losers if you would like to really delve into that (it is a very important topic). At Coremetrics, I built more of an engineering-driven culture. How did my co-founders and I apply this lesson at data.world?

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Lessons from Startup School from the Founders of Facebook, Groupon, GitHub and More

ReadWriteStart

Startup School is an annual event co-sponsored by Y Combinator and BASES , Stanford University's Business Association for Entrepreneurial Students. Paul Graham: Co-founder, Y Combinator. Andrew Mason: Founder, Groupon. Tom Preston-Werner: Founder, GitHub. Adam D'Angelo: Founder, Quora.

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“Focus is everything” - Melio's Matan Bar

Cracking the Code

The first time I met Matan, Melio's co-founder and CEO, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small business stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. But we learned so much, our engineers could develop a product that would imitate many of the things we did manually.

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Guy Kawasaki’s 10 Questions to Ask Before You Join a Startup

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What is the post-money valuation of your last round? Post-money valuation” is the value of the company after the last round of money was put in (again, lines of credit and promises don’t count). But you should beware of boards that are only the founders and their family and friends. Who is on your board of directors?

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Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

He is the founder and CEO of Stackify. I said in the intro and it’s funny how many founders of companies start companies because they can’t find something or they can’t get something solved, so they just solve it by creating a company. As a founder of a company, a CEO of a company. Go check it out.