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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. The question is: how should they be compensated when cofounding a company? equity that belongs to departed cofounders)?

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

Metrics are people too" is a reminder I constantly needed when I was a manager. At IMVU, I remember spending an incredible amount of time iterating on the model that would power our third-party developer economy. My cofounders and I would hash out nuances and details almost every day, re-drawing diagram after diagram on the whiteboard.

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Startup Tools

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