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5 Equity Distribution Parameters For Key Contributors

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, all cofounders need to remember that allocated percentages will be diluted as angel and VC investors are brought in. Keep your wits about you to make sure that dilution is done equitably and evenly. The CFO may have a major financial background, but might be a minority owner.

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5 Keys To Negotiating Your Fair Share Of Any Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, all co-founders need to remember that allocated percentages will be diluted as angel and VC investors are brought in. Keep your wits about you to make sure that dilution is done equitably and evenly. The CFO may have a major financial background, but might be a minority owner.

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10 Entrepreneur Myths That Need Not Dilute Your Focus

Startup Professionals Musings

Most of you aspiring entrepreneurs probably have long searched for that special idea that will catapult you and your startup to success. Yet, my experience as a business advisor and investor has convinced me that the magic is not the idea, but you and the execution.

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8 Priorities When Offering A New Product Or Service

Startup Professionals Musings

Make sure new solutions offered actually build your brand, rather than dilute it. The cost of any new product these days must include education and rollout marketing, perhaps equal or greater than the development costs. Even more important than solution marketing is building your brand. Solution may require new category development time.

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How To Prevent Gaps in An Innovative Startup Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

It takes focus to resist adding a long list of features that seem to make the opportunity larger, but dilute to focus of both you and potential customers. The first chasm is getting the customer requirements right, product or service, to satisfy a real need that a large number of customers will pay real money to satisfy.

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Which Fundraising Round Should You Skip?

View from Seed

The reality is that if a founder raised every one of these rounds, and lead investors always got their “target” ownership, the level of dilution would be ridiculous. No good investor would want the founder/CEO of a company to have insufficient ownership by the series A, and every founder I know is sensitive to taking too much dilution.

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Accepting A Non-Dilutive Government Grant? 5 Surprising Mistakes To Avoid

YoungUpstarts

Non-dilutive grants are a great way to fund your research, provided you’re working on a project that directly benefits the government according to current needs. Many companies pursue non-dilutive government grants because they don’t require giving away ownership in the company. . If so, you’re pursuing funds from a reliable source.

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