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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

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Piercing the Corporate Veil – Sweat Equity Consulting. Some have been as co-founder, most have been as a consultant with the possibility of becoming an paid employee, “as soon as we close our funding round.” If you did, why would you be consulting for sweat equity instead of investing as a VC or for yourself?

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Things to Avoid When Recruiting Co-founders

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Ask Apple employees if they enjoy not knowing what they’re building. That’s just energy spent watching out for individual interests that could’ve gone into building the company. re: numbers Same opinion here. There are great companies that are super secretive. I just won’t work effectively in them.