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Joseph Galarneau Founder and CEO at Mezzobit, creating transparency and control for Internet data

May 27th, 2013

We had two core cofounders and decided to add two additional cofounders (a general counsel and a chief architect) to dramatically increase our changes... More

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My role as the inventor of patent pend. system in new company started in partnership w market giant?

Kia Utzon-Frank MA Royal College of Art. Inventor of the patent-pending blinds system 'The Louver Twisting Comb', goldsmith and designer

November 3rd, 2015

Recently I have been contacted by a company who is interested in taking on my invention for a new type of window blinds system and they want to start... More

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How would you reboot a product that is getting traction, but has no team?

Chris Schultz Entrepreneur & Angel Investor

June 24th, 2015

I funded and incubated a product over the last couple years. I pulled together a team of co-founders and stepped into an investor role, funding the... More

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My co-founders have genuine reasons why they can't contribute as much as I want them to, but I'm getting impatient. What should I do?

Anonymous

April 2nd, 2017

I'd really appreciate any contributions that can help. I am a design engineering (mech.) university student. Last year, a friend came to me with an... More

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What is the right title for our startup's first employee leading business development?

Anonymous

November 6th, 2015

We are a tech startup serving the mortgage industry. Our first non-founding full time employee (still equity only, pre-funding) has come on... More

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What makes a successful founding team?

Ziv Azmanov Be the best that I can be and in doing so create great and lasting impact

October 6th, 2016

Here are my thoughts.All the Best,Ziv. More

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Is it ok to have friends help for free in the early stages?

Laurel Lee Improve lives by making it easy to find, participate and share what is going on in the community.

June 17th, 2017

I have friends offering to invest not insignificant amounts of time in the early stages. They have made clear that they do not want to be co-founders,... More

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Initial shareholding structure of a startup with a three cofounders?

Ugur Cirak A New Journey Starting From Japan: SpeakMates.com

April 20th, 2017

If I have a startup where I have the idea owner who is also the leader of the project and a full stack developer and a sales person to make the startup... More

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Equity value of succesful co-founder

kraig from idea to MVP APP. Low rates. Full stack.

May 26th, 2017

Assume, you are a novice, at the startup game, and you get interest in your startup from a co-founder who has previously had an exit at valuation... More

How should my team treat our startup's prototyping facility when it belongs to one of the founders as his private property?

Amir MBA Global MBA, creating the new transportation platform of the future with more efficient, heavy-lift aerial vehicles

January 7th, 2017

Adjacent to his home, and a place of storage for his family, it is common for his kids to visit regularly. These interruptions frustrate the second... More