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The Introvert Economy, the Case for Longer Founder Vesting Cycles, What Happens When Your Product Goes Viral on TikTok, and More [link blog]

Hunter Walker

Many times we’ll never know, but the random products that end up popping because of a TikTok trend are always pretty fascinating anthropological stories. What Happens When TikTok Is Your Marketing Department [David Segal/New York Times] – Was it organic? Was it spon con? Was it both?

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The New Deal – A Founding CEOs Value is Non Linear

Steve Blank

The customary vesting model has founders vest their stock over 4-years , and when the founding CEO gets in over their head the VC’s bring in professional management. The odds are if the founder is going to find the first business model it’s going to be in the first few years. Where’s My Liquidity Event.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

Moonlight Responsibly - If you are still employed please be very careful not to use your company’s resources to produce your product and please do not work on your next idea during business hours. That’s the difference between a founder and a non-founder. DO NOT start with product, start with the market.

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Finance Fridays: Getting Started – Allocating Equity and Founder’s Investment

Feld Thoughts

After all, they needed to focus on building their product, right? Fortunately, Dick and Jane had both read Dharmesh Shah’s piece on avoiding co-founder conflict in Do More Faster and knew it was important to address co-founder issues – including how to handle co-founder investments – from the start.

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The Equity Equation

venturehacks.com

Ask the Attorney” – Founder Vesting. All our products. Pitching Hacks , Cap Table , and Co-founder Interview. Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. SUPPORTED BY. venturehacks. The Equity Equation. by Nivi on July 19th, 2007. Our Spreadsheet. Check out the video tour. Supporter Posts. Scott Edward Walker. Part 2: Deck.

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How to pick a co-founder

venturehacks.com

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. It’s more important than your product, market, and investors.

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