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Co-founders only able to work part-time, with responsibility and major income sources elsewhere, don’t carry the same risk as others with more operational responsibility. The challenge is for real co-founders to keep their equity percentage above 50%, or they effectively lose control of operational decisions. But don’t get greedy.
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Co-founders only able to work part-time, with responsibility and major income sources elsewhere, don’t carry the same risk as others with more operational responsibility. The challenge is for real co-founders to keep their equity percentage above 50 percent, or they effectively lose control of operational decisions.
Thus I was happily surprised when I found the classic book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. The operations superstar.
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Co-founders only able to work part-time, with responsibility and major income sources elsewhere, don’t carry the same risk as others with more operational responsibility. The challenge is for real co-founders to keep their equity percentage above 50%, or they effectively lose control of operational decisions. But don’t get greedy.
Thus I was happily surprised when I found the classic book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. The operations superstar.
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Co-founders only able to work part-time, with responsibility and major income sources elsewhere, don’t carry the same risk as others with more operational responsibility. The challenge is for real co-founders to keep their equity percentage above 50%, or they effectively lose control of operational decisions. But don’t get greedy.
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VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technicallycofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Andy Grove was Intel’s third employee (after the two cofounders Robert Noyce and Gordon E. In addition to the basic hardware and operating system, he added applications (iLife, iWork) and peripherals (like the iPod).
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