Founder used in a sentence

Founder in a sentence as a noun

It sounds like he's not a real co-founder, he's "just a coder".

Both co-founders worked at Google for slightly more than a year.

Well now he's got the founder of CD Baby on board, too. This is amazing.

As a co-founder of Picnik, I was surprised by this article.

The founder has a good point: try to avoid dating someone working with you.

If I were in his situation, I would try to sort out the problem with the founder myself.

Someone with management skill should have step in and tell the founder "stop letting your wife to come in!

Second, investors are scared to death of founder disputes.

Then I'd like to suggest those people have standing to at least commiserate with the founder of a failed startup.

I'm assuming some HNers are soon to arrive saying things like "why does it matter that a founder is a female?

Whether it is the best choice for a given venture turns on how the founders in that venture see the trade-offs.

Isn't it sexism all the same", "imagine if someone make a 'male founders conference'?

The founder apologized and tried to restrain his wife from sitting across Horvath.

She warned him against being close to the founder and his wife, and asked him not to relay information to them.

Thus, near-complete founder freedom is preserved and there are no special strings that come with the investment.

Founder in a sentence as a verb

That in turn means you need to negotiate the issue of price precisely when you are at your weakest as a founder trying to build value.

The general tone and specifically the mention of the founder's wife in this post gives a huge amount of credence to Julie's claims.

But, again, there are always trade-offs and founders should weigh these carefully in deciding whether the Kima way is the way they want to choose.

Otherwise, the other two founders will hold all the power in the organization because they, and they alone, hold that special knowledge of what investors want.

This often proves a shock to unsuspecting founders who file a do-it-yourself entity without understanding the issues.

> Nebulous semi-employee with unspecified responsibilities related to a founder?This is the point that stands out for me.

It was just one of many pages up for AfD that week, alongside the founder of a political party nobody has ever heard of and 3 members of non-professional football clubs.

PG has assessed the broad economic proposition to which I would add the following: YC does take an immediate equity grant but does so with common stock and on terms that don't affect founder stock pricing.

Do we really want a counterpart agenda now setting rules for who can be a founder, who can be an investor, who can be a director, who can be a CEO, or who can otherwise take a prominent role in the startup world?

In such cases, with institutional investors, you may still find yourself arguing about valuation in negotiating caps but the process is nowhere near as involved as it is with a typical equity round and founders with leverage can usually dispense with caps as well.

Nebulous semi-employee with unspecified responsibilities related to a founder?

But by the far the biggest differential that I see comes with the value-add piece: with YC, founders pay a price in terms of equity they give up but they get huge benefits from becoming part of a network that keys them in to relationships and solutions that can prove invaluable to an early-stage startup.

Much of the "distraction" that founders face in raising money exists precisely because a typical equity round can be a complex process and, apart from needing to sell the economic proposition behind their venture, founders must also make sure that any funds they do take in are taken on reasonable terms.

It also means you create tax risks and complications: if the equity round is too near the time of formation, the $.0001/sh pricing used by founders for their shares may look funny next to the much higher amount per share paid by investors, raising risks that the founders can be deemed to have received their shares at the higher valuation as potentially taxable service income; once you do an equity round, you will need to do 409A valuations in connection with doing option grants and that necessitates getting outside independent appraisals; equity rounds come with strings, including investor preferences, investor protective provisions limiting what you can do as a founder without investor approval, co-sale and first refusal rights favoring investors and concomitantly limiting founders, board seats and/or observer rights for investors, and the like.