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The Future of Startup Funding

www.paulgraham.com

The distribution of investors should mirrorthe distribution of startups, which has the usual power law dropoff.So 2 ]Its not the distribution of good startups that has a powerlaw dropoff, but the distribution of potentially good startups,which is to say, good deals. 13 ]Im not saying option pools themselves will go away.

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Changing Equity Structures for Early Startup Employees

www.instigatorblog.com

You can’t have an option pool that takes up 50% of the company’s shares, and you have to leave room for future employees as well. turtlebarbeque I always believed the equity distribution is primarily based on the worth of the contribution. Thank you and great post bud. Thank you and great post bud.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.