Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 26, 2009
It was a labor of love, and it meant we always had a real voice of the customer right there in the meeting with us. What we call “community management&# is actually governance. It is our obligation to govern well, but – as history has repeatedly shown – this is incredibly hard. It was absolutely worth it.
David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
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. Our model at Casual Corp. There’s a huge caveat to the above comments. Rock Health).
maplebutter.com
JANUARY 8, 2013
Government grants – Credit cards / debt. 2) Co-Founders are the largest form of dilution (if you’re raising) 3) Everything around LeanStartup / Customer Development 4) Understand the micro economics of your business early. Co-founders are the highest form of dilution to a business. Other sources of capital.
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