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

David Teten

I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. Vlad and his team at DarwinApps are considering launching DevFund — their attempt at cofounding companies by developing the MVP technology.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

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Tiny, contracting market. Vest, young man. Starting a company without vesting your stock is like getting your girlfriend pregnant on the first date. Hiren Co-Founder and CTO @ Point10Solutions.com [link] Hiren Panchasara Thanks for the post ! I wanna be like you when I grow up Can you expand on the vesting topic?

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Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? - Quora

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Update Link to Questions, Topics and People Add Find Questions, Topics or People Comment Jason Crawford , Co-founder & CTO at Kima Labs 25 votes by Abinash Tripathy , Anon User, Dean Blackburn , (more) Chris Dixon says it all in a post titled "There Are Two Kinds of Pe. How much equity do early employees typically get?

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