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Founder's Dilemmas: Equity Splits

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With their confidence in their startup and themselves, their passion for their work and their mission, and their desire not to harm the fragile dynamic within the nascent founding team, cofounders tend to plan for the best that can happen. But such a best-case approach is hazardous. How should founders deal with such developments?

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

David Teten

incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. intrapreneurs, e.g., the employee of GE who is tasked with launching a new business. An intrapreneur is the extreme; usually an intrapreneur’s employer owns 100% of the new business that she creates. The question is: how should they be compensated when cofounding a company?

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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In their startup post-mortem, Nouncer discussed their decision to be in NY as one that hurt their company stating : In my case, New York didn’t lack money, community, able workers, or smart people with good advice. I can count on one hand the number of people I’ve met in New York meetups and events that fit this description.