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Introducing the Cap Table and Hiring the CTO

Feld Thoughts

Jane and Dick, our fearless cofounders of SayAhh, have set up an accounting system and created their first set of financial statements. This week they set out to create their cap table and hire a CTO. The founders each have common shares that will vest over four years. Time to update the cap table.

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

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Advisor. ); STARTUP. I advise my clients that you offer stock only after youve searched your heart and soul and cant come up with a way to pay with anything else," says Thomas H. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

In this post, I describe why we prefer to fund companies whose founder will run the company as its CEO. As we looked at the history of great technology companies, we discovered that founders ran an overwhelming majority of them for a very long time, including: Acer—Stan Shih. Siebel—Tom Siebel. Sony—Akio Morita. Sun—Scott McNeely.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. Then, forget everything else, VCs included, and just build. and Google.