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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

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where your stock sits in the liquidity preference stack. what rights and preferences the founders and the other investors have. While Ive made at least my share of mistakes taking equity in lieu of pay, I continue to see this as a key part of my business model. AOL, Tech Crunch and What Selling Your Business Means.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors. Smart phones finally took off leading to enormous wealth creation for Apple employees and investors but also helped propel Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp and others.

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How I Pitched My Business and Raised $2.3 Million in VC Funding

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At the same time, I was starting to realize that both the elegance of cloud-based software and the business models it enabled were what really got me excited. Small business owners are notorious for being fickle about the software that they use and even if you can get a user to stick around, they still might go out of business.