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2022 Predictions

Eric Friedman

4/ Streaming equity – venture funds + employee stock becomes more liquid. With the advent of programs like CartaX and what I call streaming venture funds , the liquidity in private markets is going to get the foundation to grow significantly in 2021. Maybe the founders are the micro VCs we have been waiting for?

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants? To grow his cash-strapped start-up, Parker ended up sharing equity -- not only with employees, but also with consultants and vendors. Parker found that equity as compensation helped build loyalty to his company -- even among consultants. But sharing equity can have pitfalls, too.

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2021 Predictions

Eric Friedman

The idea of Twitter reincarnating the “verified” program under the launch of a creator economy support system would re-invigorate developers, be an easy way to start to KYC people and integrate with payment gateways (hello Square – they know people over there. 7/ SaaS roll-ups and micro-private equity become huge.

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How to pick a co-founder

venturehacks.com

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. One founder companies can work, against the odds (hello, Mark Zuckerberg).

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How to Evaluate an Offer from a Startup Incubator

The Startup Lawyer

But before your startup signs up and cashes that $[XX,000] check, your startup’s co-founders should sit down and evaluate the incubator’s offer. If an incubator offers your startup $25,000 in exchange for 6% equity, the pre-money valuation is a whopping $391,667. Other incubators may want to set up an option pool.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors: Part 2.

venturehacks.com

Most of their companies would probably give 6% of their shares to YC for free, just to participate in the program. If your company hasn’t raised a Series A, increase the advisor’s equity by roughly 30%-50% to account for dilution from seed investors, Series A investors, option pools, swimming pools, and the like.