Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 1, 2023
I always tell entrepreneurs that two heads are better than one, so the first task in many startups is finding a cofounder or two. Giving a cofounder a salary won’t get you the “fire in the belly” you want. Each cofounder should get equity for value, based on these key variables: Lived a key role in a previous startup.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 9, 2020
Value factors include your related product breadth and depth, relationships with thought leaders, key vendors, and large potential customers. Investors may not be called co-founders, but they always get equity, commensurate with their share of the total costs anticipated, or share of the current valuation. But don’t get greedy.
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Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
Value factors include your related product breadth and depth, relationships with thought leaders, key vendors, and large potential customers. Investors may not be called co-founders, but they always get equity, commensurate with their share of the total costs anticipated, or share of the current valuation. But don’t get greedy.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 25, 2018
Those that do it right also have the unprecedented opportunity to join the elite ranks of 250 unicorns (relatively new companies with a current valuation of over $1 billion). Advisors and investors need to see your whole story in as few as ten slides. Validate your solution with a prototype and real customers.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 4, 2014
Value factors include your related product breadth and depth, relationships with thought leaders, key vendors and large potential customers. Investors may not be called co-founders, but they always get equity, commensurate with their share of the total costs anticipated, or share of the current valuation. But don’t get greedy.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 25, 2017
This movement, coupled with free websites and apps, makes it possible for almost any technical person to start a business. In my view as an advisor to new ventures, the Maker Movement is an integral part of a new age of the entrepreneur. Provides networking with cofounders and strategic partners.
Hunter Walker
DECEMBER 13, 2020
If things are going great, you still may get a lower valuation or smaller round. You’re spending much of your time selling: the vision to employees, the opportunity to investors, the story to the press, the offering to the customers, the relationship to partners. How does this harm occur? Yes and No.
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