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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

The final straw came when I asked the latest 25-year old a simple ‘yes / no’ question related to stock options. John is currently a partner at Rincon Venture Partners , a venture capital firm investing in early stage web-based businesses, and is a Co-Founder of RevUpNet , a performance-based online marketing agency. 4 Comments.

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Who Says You Can’t Do It All? I Do.

Up and Running

Like I said, it’s good the identity is disguised, because Rand lays a whole lot of blame on the unnamed CEO, and his behavior after a co-founder left the company. Rand said he gets credit for a successful exit, but the exit didn’t include any of the employees who had stock options.

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Traditional VCs and First-time Entrepreneurs Are not Aligned

Diego Basch

You are the founder and CEO of GulpMonger, three years out of college, fresh out of Y Combinator. Typical first-time SV entrepreneurs are not millionaires, so let’s say you have 100k in the bank (maybe you’ve made some money from stock options). At this point things can get ugly.