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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

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Join our community. Technology | Thursdays. Should You Share Equity with Consultants? Science and Technology Technology. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We The 2011 Inc.

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

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million of what partners hope will be a much larger fund. The company is hiring 300 employees in 2012, particularly software engineers with talent in key areas such as interactive analytics, mobile applications, internet scale distributed systems, high performance graphics, user experience and human oriented design. GeekWire Partners.

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

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Office Space. Virtual Office. 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? Below is an example of how some companies may approach distributing equity to employees.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. We were obviously wrong about Untitled Partners’ ability to grow through the subsequent downturn. #19

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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In Meebo’s case, for example, I was lucky enough to partner up with Elaine and Sandy. No looking for partnerships (who’s going to partner with you anyway?). A good mentor is someone who has been part of the startup community themselves – someone who has a realistic understanding of some of the basic dos and don’ts of starting up.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

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Tiny, contracting market. Outcome: last night a Biz Dev guy from Disney/ABC sent me an email asking about partnering with some of their online properties. The dude turned out to be a senior partner at a major international corporate law firm, and 6 weeks later he offered to take me on as a pro bono client. Learned a lot.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

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janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. Stephen Straus (@ssaustin) | Twitter Carolyn Rodz HelloAlice Featured in Fortune, Inc.,