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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

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Max Shapiro s People Connect Staffing has an innovative program called Employees Without Paychecks. These professionals can help with anything from finance to marketing, but you wont find any software engineers volunteering their services. In 2008 I was first time startup founder with no cash. Finding Employees.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I started a career in real estate in 2008 (when the market was crashing). I was driven by my desire for freedom and that’s what I got; along with an amazing opportunity to help transform my employees’ and my client’s lives through homeownership and real estate. Everyone thought I was crazy. Image Credit: Lara Olson.

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How much equity for investors and employees?

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Community is more powerful than money or technology » August 11, 2007 How much equity for investors and employees? How much equity should I grant to early employees? The key is to have several VCs or investors competing for the deal to arrive at a "fair" valuation. How much equity should be given to employees?

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Building a Great Startup Board Pt. 2

Reid Hoffman

But it could also be a non-financial challenge, like being a social media company and facing attacks from multiple points of the political spectrum. One of the things a financing round brings is an opportunity to strengthen the startup’s overall network. Financing can be one of these things. Maybe it’s an economic challenge.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

This approach is fundamentally non-scalable. This is why companies often get out-competed by former employees (Palm vs Handspring to name just one), even though the upstart lacks all of the familiar resources, tools, processes, and support they used to have. They are closing orders. They are gaining valuable customer data.

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People are the whole game - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

Remarks to the Visionary Companies Conference, Billings, MT May 27, 2010 It’s a fact that all net job creation since the 1980s has come    with under 100 employees.   The company grew to 250 employees in two states.   The company grew to 250 employees in two states. People are the whole game.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors: Part 2.

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Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors, Part 2 by Nivi on February 27th, 2008 Here are more frequently asked questions about advisors. Or they bring you a handful of great employees. They’ll bring you leads for customers, employees, and investors.