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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

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Piercing the Corporate Veil – Sweat Equity Consulting. But much like becoming a co-founder, getting paid sweat equity is essentially becoming an investor in the company. All names redacted.). 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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Names redacted.) Unless your name is Mesmero the Magnificent, it’s probably not going to work on me. It doesn’t mean that he should not look up his charts, excel sheets and you-name-it. While all of those offers have been very kind and very flattering, some have tended towards the bizarre.