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7 Business Mistakes Serial Entrepreneurs Never Make (Twice)

InfoChachkie

Evaluate their sincerity by asking them to accept equity in exchange for all or a portion of their overall compensation. Thus, you have negotiating leverage as long as a legitimate, competitive threat exists. Grant Exclusivity.

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Ten Rookie Startup Mistakes You Won’t Make

InfoChachkie

Ask them to accept equity in exchange for all or a portion of their overall compensation. In Beware The Consultant , I describe how you can structure such equity-based relationships. Even benevolent BDCs lose interest in your solution once this competitive risk is eliminated. 5) Allow Partners To Write Your Agreements.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Stay Positive

Frank Addante

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Our competition was well funded with many millions of dollars, well armed with hundreds of employees and far down the path. Startup 3.0:

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register?

Frank Addante

Outsourcing ▼ April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. What if there was another competitive cash register on the market? FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU. Startup 3.0:

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. What Apple proved, and what I suspect is the issue with web content, is that monetization was a product problem. equity debate. There is no competition. August 20, 2010 They say people won't pay for content.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed.