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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

Both Sides of the Table

Chief Vesting Officers)? The Aqui-hire Business. Many buying companies price these deals on the basis of $1 million per engineer on the team for an early-stage deal. Hire legions of young, impressionable graduates from the top engineering universities. It says if you want to make “real” money - quit.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

I’ve been looking for suggestions for an initial deal structure that is appropriate for the theoretical case of a trusted dev shop putting in $100k in market-value of services over a 6 month period in time. Vesting equity equally divided into set milestones, in this case: 5% vest after design phase. 5% launch of v1.