YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

by Arsalan Sajid, startup community manager at Cloudways. You are looking for cofounders that can help you build a product. You have finally found a cofounder that can take care of the startup. It will be in millions and you will have to dilute your shares even further if you are aiming for another funding round.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

L to R: Tiara Zolniez (Co-Founder & Sales), Dr. Roshawnna Novellus (Co-Founder & CEO), Alisha Griffey (COO) The Forrest Four-Cast: February 4, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Founders. Should founders have anti-dilution rights?

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Equity Employee Founder CTO Hire 62

JANUARY 9, 2014

No clear vision or purpose This should be the starting point for any startup founder, but it’s often overlooked. Having a clear focus means it’s easier to communicate what your product is and who it’s for. It’s seems that every other budding entrepreneur out there is searching for a co-founder, but in all the wrong places.

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Early Stage Startup Cofounder Design 102

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 4, 2023

Joe Flanagan, Founder, 90s Fashion World No, Too Many Lenders While the idea of sourcing capital from multiple smaller sources is an enticing one, the reality is far less pleasant. Inbar Madar , Founder and Business Consultant, M.I. On the other hand, failing to raise the desired funds proves its limitations in the marketplace.

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Startup Campaign Cofounder Venture Capital 141

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

They had their own private forum, and a company founder (aka me) personally ran the group in its early days. And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. Passionate online communities are real societies. Here’s what it looks like.

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Advisory Board Customer San Francisco Lean 151

The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc. It’s always better to be earn money, not just raise it, as money you earn doesn’t dilute your ownership and reassures your investors. It’s always better to be earn money, not just raise it, as money you earn doesn’t dilute your ownership and reassures your investors.

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Belarus Viral Channel Startup 137

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Hunter Walk: I know you started Dogster, one of the seminal early online communities, but I don’t know Dogster’s founding story. By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder SMS 48

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. So as a founder, how should you respond to this competitive effect? TRANSCRIPT.

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Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. So as a founder, how should you respond to this competitive effect? TRANSCRIPT.

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Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

Austin Startup

JANUARY 11, 2020

Capital Factory’s Saturday Startup Spotlight series, where we chat with an exciting new startup and get to know their story, returns this week with the co-founder and CEO of TaxTaker : Ari Palmer. It’s now the #1 non-dilutive source of capital for businesses to continue to grow and scale, but it’s highly overlooked.

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CPA Startup Non-Compete Cofounder 62

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

And what can we – as the entrepreneurial community learn from that? Is your crappy little 12-person company really worth they and their shareholders diluting by 2% given more than a decade they’ve put in building one of the Internet’s most solid business social networks? Was this a good thing? Hang on, Mark.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

While many travel industry leaders chose to “go dark,” as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid. Today, we are thrilled to have Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky with us. Those are your five stakeholders.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Join our community. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., Besides the future potential earnings youre forgoing, youre also diluting your own ownership in the company. ); Login or signup. Welcome | Logout. Login using: Use your Inc.com account: Forgot login ? Forgot login ?

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

It was an ad supported virtual community. Still in business today and run by my co-founder. I decided I wasn’t passionate about running an ad-supported business and sold my stake to my co-founder. I failed to do that with Coremetrics and I paid dearly for it with dilution. The third was InSite Solutions.

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Bootstrapping Austin Equity Cofounder 48

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2015

However, when you do this, you sacrifice your credibility and dilute your link authority. 3) Co-create content with other authorities in your niche market. You should always produce content you know your audience will consume and come back to for more! Finding the right partners within an industry is crucial.

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SEO Technical Review Illinois Reputation 28

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community. When we pivoted from fabulis to Fab, we pivoted towards building a business around the unique tastemaker talents of one of our founders, Bradford Shellhammer. Founders need to personally own something big themselves.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. Joe Lonsdale. Jim Breyer.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 28, 2013

Every time he opens his mouth about founder diversity, he seems completely out of his league to address the topic. The biggest question I think VC''s face right now is whether or not, in the future, the best founders will look and act like the best founders of the past. That''s less than 10%. What''s the coolest place to go to?

Venture Capital 152

Venture Capital Cofounder IRR Dilution 152

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. It was 20 to 30, not 100, because of the dilution from the capital. So the venture industry outsourced that market risk to the angel community. Again--how would you know if it’s going to work? It's a horrible risk/reward.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley Lean Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 159

Feld Thoughts

JULY 29, 2011

Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.

Equity 137

Equity Finance Pre-Money Valuation Denver 137

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. Create a strong brand, solid social community, sell advertising. If you’re looking to find / earn a technical co-founder then Andrew’s article is the best read.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

While many travel industry leaders chose to “go dark,” as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid. Today, we are thrilled to have Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky with us. Those are your five stakeholders.

Silicon Valley 36

Silicon Valley Hosting Rhode Island Design 36

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Since its launch, Criteo has created 800 jobs, 40% of those in R&D; France has also been a pioneer in the space of ride-sharing with the creation of covoiturage.fr, a company that has built a strong community of over 2 million members and transporting a number of passengers equivalent of 1,000 high speed trains every month.

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France Europe Capital Gains Dilution 71

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

My founders and I started the company about three years ago. The way that I leverage that is when I’m faced with a decision before I go to make the decision and let’s say my executive team and I or my co-founder and I or just myself I get an idea and I think what if we were to do X, Y and Z.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 1, 2010

The drafters are “open sourcing&# the documents so that they may be continually improved by the startup community. The Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation includes the typical provisions you might find in a VC deal, less (i) preferential dividends, (ii) redemption rights, and (iii) price based anti-dilution.

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Preferred Stock Term Sheet Redemption Registration Rights 79

Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2015

Dave’s note: We are privileged this week to host a post by Arthur Lipper, a well-respected member of the international financial community since 1954. Today he serves as Chairman of British Far East Holdings Ltd. The businesses frequently were the owner-manager’s only major asset.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

And as everyone’s attention starts to focus on those same indicators, their value is being diluted. We’ve learned that data can be used as a reality-check against vision without diluting the mission or reverting to “sum of all features&# focus groups. Which leads to the next problem: We need new status indicators.

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 1, 2010

The drafters are “open sourcing&# the documents so that they may be continually improved by the startup community. The Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation includes the typical provisions you might find in a VC deal, less (i) preferential dividends, (ii) redemption rights, and (iii) price based anti-dilution.

Preferred Stock 40

Preferred Stock Term Sheet Redemption Registration Rights 40