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Slicing Pie: A Guide to Dividing Up Early-Stage Start-up Equity
First Published on Tech Cocktail (Tech.co) Not long ago, I was approached by one of my students at Northwestern, who was distraught over a situation in a fledging company that she had started in my entrepreneurship class. Her group had decided to split the equity in her company equally – 25 percent each. Now that […]
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Fairness starts with laying out the rules and agreeing to follow them. This means that we need to allocate equity based on a set of rules.
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