Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

This is useful for a number of reasons, the most obvious of which is to help you navigate the right channels in your vertical and open doors to potential customers. And founding teams with limited operational backgrounds in their vertical or domain will create doubt. (An Never discount the power of a warm intro.

Advisory Board 48

Advisory Board Sweat Equity Marketing Vertical 48

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with a large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

I would assume most businesses are going to claim they should get VC funding in order to help their PR, even if no one at the company actually believes it. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one. Pepperdine Business Press Room – Graziadio School PR [.] Think Again.

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62