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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

It you have a great software engineer that’s awesome. Founder vesting. Yesterday I wrote a blog posting on founder vesting (see here ). You should implement restricted stock with vesting at the earliest stages in your company -even before the VC’s ask. Build prototypes and/or product.

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How to pick a co-founder

venturehacks.com

Breakups are hard If you’re going to fall out with your co-founder, do it early, recover the equity into the option pool to keep the company going, and recruit someone else great to fill the missing slot. Build in founder vesting (a.k.a. the “Pre-Nup&# ) to keep the breakup from getting messy.

Cofounder 101