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How to Divide Founder Equity: 4 Criteria to Discuss

View from Seed

The most successful approaches to splitting founders equity typically involve establishing a framework that all the co-founders buy into at the outset. This needn’t be some terribly complex formula that tries to do a cost accounting of everyone’s contribution to the decimal point. Capital Investment & Sweat Equity.

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Punch & Pie: How Should Co-Founders Divide Equity?

Agile VC

The most successful approaches to splitting founders equity typically involve establishing a framework that all the co-founders buy into at the outset. This needn’t be some terribly complex formula that tries to do a cost accounting of everyone’s contribution to the decimal point.

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Punch & Pie: How Should Co-Founders Divide Equity?

Agile VC

The most successful approaches to splitting founders equity typically involve establishing a framework that all the co-founders buy into at the outset. This needn’t be some terribly complex formula that tries to do a cost accounting of everyone’s contribution to the decimal point.

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Are You Waiting For Capital To Launch Your Startup?

YoungUpstarts

Most businesses – online or offline, need seed capital to get established and without access to these funds, launching a business can seem like an improbable dream. This way, you can focus your initial days of business in building the marketplace instead of developing an app that costs money. That does not have to be the case.

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. Technical progress and market traction are much slower and cost a lot more than anticipated. The typical wisdom regarding the appropriate financing course for a new company goes as follows: 1.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

I personally think there should be a shift generally to funding smaller ideas, that are innovative enough to not cost millions to build and run, that may still net similar returns (30-50 times) but are less risk since they’re smaller. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one.

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How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k

www.thestartup.eu

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On June - 21 - 2010 It’s a known fact that seed capital is very scarce in Italy. Let’s break down their costs: Logo design: a simple contest on 99designs with a $300 prize. Total cost: $5000. Total cost: $100. TheStartup.eu Meet Tipsandtrip. CEO Marco Magnocavallo.