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

David Teten

portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. 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.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

This is my least favorite thing in the world, being offered sweat equity in a corporate structure that is unnecessarily convoluted. Which country’s laws does the corporate entity operate under? Not that they were trying to take advantage of me necessarily, but it happened because of the deal structure. Categories.