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Finance Fridays: Getting Started – Allocating Equity and Founder’s Investment

Feld Thoughts

Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

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We are raising seed capital, but would like to have a US tech investor. Eventually it will be a large social networking site if all goes well but I dont want users to begin to use it, and then we have an issue with maintaining content, handling traffic etc and then they lose interest. Offer equity to a programmer?