David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Yes, non-voting common shares (if converted). Flexible VCs typically purchase non-voting common stock, if they purchase stock (one even assigns their voting rights to the founders ). has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, Flexible VC offers you this. Volatile, uncapped.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

And to top it all off, Snap isn’t offering voting rights to public market investors, which should discount the stock price further. The Massive Market Opportunity For Spectacles Apple CEO Tim Cook recently told the media : “I regard [augmented reality] as a big idea like the smartphone. How can one justify a $20B valuation for Snap?

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. Id then allow digg style voting up of stories in order to bubble things up to the top page of the site. Nobody ever stole our ideas. Very good points all around.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You dont want mere voting; you need unanimity. But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. But its hard to raise money with an IP cloud over your head, becauseinvestors cant judge how serious it is. Now we needed to raise more to keep going.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

Try going for a week without using a computer, smartphone, search engine, ecommerce, social media account, SMS, private message or email, to name a few services. So it makes sense that we all use the same social media network and a single search engine that learns and gets better based on every search that is entered into it.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Media Temple. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). IP Location Tools. VC & Startup Resources.

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