Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2023

The next default of waiting until later is equally bad, since partners who bow out early will still expect an equal share of that first billion you make later. Level of responsibility and time allocated. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder. Now comes the reality check.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2020

The next default of waiting until later is equally bad, since partners who bow out early will still expect an equal share of that first billion you make later. Level of responsibility and time allocated. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder. Now comes the reality check.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The next default of waiting until later is equally bad, since partners who bow out early will still expect an equal share of that first billion you make later. Level of responsibility and time allocated. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder. Now comes the reality check.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2014

The next default of waiting until later is equally bad, since partners who bow out early will still expect an equal share of that first billion you make later. Level of responsibility and time allocated. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder. Now comes the reality check.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2016

The next default of waiting until later is equally bad, since partners who bow out early will still expect an equal share of that first billion you make later. Level of responsibility and time allocated. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder. Now comes the reality check.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. At the same time, a direct equity investment (one where the dev shop acquires a share in the company immediately) puts the founders in a potentially uneasy position of having to dilute their company before a product is built.

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