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How to calculate the equity split between co-founders in a startup

The Next Web

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. If people are funding the business, they should get a premium because at the end of the day, cash funding founders are acting no different than a seed stage investor.

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Nobody Announces Their Seed Round Anymore and That’s a Mistake

View from Seed

With the atomization of seed and an increasing number of rounds prior to Series A (pre-seed, seed, super-seed, etc.), Inbound partners. But in my experience, it rarely fails that press coverage attracts the attention of a potential customer or possible new partner.

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Why Startups Die

The Next Web

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. It can be very tempting to take in a little bit of seed capital, and start to operate as if you’re a big company. Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Andrew Montalenti.

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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

Steve Blank

Who are the partners? If you’re a scalable startup, you want to spend small amounts of money (seed capital) as you run experiments testing your hypotheses. How do the fund and the partners make money? Does our product or service solve a customer problem (product-market fit)? How do we attract, keep and grow customers?

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

The Small Business Tips Series is supported by Bantam Live , a web-based collaboration workspace with “Social CRM&# for small business teams. The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots.

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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

Steve Blank

Who are the partners? If you’re a scalable startup, you want to spend small amounts of money (seed capital) as you run experiments testing your hypotheses. How do the fund and the partners make money? Does our product or service solve a customer problem (product-market fit)? How do we attract, keep and grow customers?

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

As a result, the companies get a lot of exposure to VCs, investors, and partners in larger, more traditional startup hubs. Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. More recently it's skewed to software & web. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.