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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

what rights and preferences the founders and the other investors have. San Jose Mercury News: Maker Faire Mixes Business With Wackiness. NPR Marketplace: Businesses save off green incentives. what kind of stock you are getting. where your stock sits in the liquidity preference stack. what your rights are. Recent Posts.

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ProfessorVC: Buyer's Remorse

Professor VC

I started thinking about this yesterday when Jeff Fluhr, founder of Stub Hub spoke at my San Jose State class. I liked the founders and considered making a personal investment, but ended up passing. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Greg gregoutside (at) gmail.com.

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Finding a Problem Worth Solving

K9 Ventures

A founder who’s in it to make money will take too many shortcuts. Not many folks know this, but Lyft ‘s co-founder Logan Green has been passionate about transportation for a long time. Logan’s co-founder John Zimmer studied hospitality at Cornell. There are no shortcuts. Logan grew up in LA.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

I have written countless products for startups including creating the internet kiosks at the San Jose airport you may have seen. The founders (Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, BTW) are so passionate about programming that they wanted to build *the* place where long-tail programming questions get answers. The site’s written in C#.

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