Starting a startup is exciting, but understanding the shareholder agreement (SHA) is crucial. Today, let's focus on Dilution.
What is dilution? Imagine you and a friend each own half a pizza (50% each). If you bring another friend in and share more
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OpenAI • 10m
Fun fact: sometimes even with the strongest of clauses, a founder can’t be saved (e.g., travis kalanick and Uber)
Look at this man.
He got bullied as a kid.
Was sued for $250 billion.
Then couldn’t get a taxi on a cold night in Paris.
So he built a billion dollar company.
But then got kicked out of it.
Here’s the crazy story of a once illegal business that
Peter Thiel on the type of company more startup founders should build
Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, believes every startup should ask, “Can this company become a monopoly?”
He identifies three common paths to monopoly:
1. Fast distributi
Duolingo’s Cool, But Here’s What I’d Love to See Next
• Staying Consistent: Been on Duolingo for 2 years, learning Spanish and Portuguese—it’s addictive. 😅🔥
• New Stuff = Exciting: They’ve added math and music courses, which is awesome. 🎶📐
• M
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Sanskar
Stealth • 3m
Ecokaari is a pune based startup which creates bags from plastic wrappers
Nandan ji the founder of Ecokaari noticed that despite the fact that plastic is recyclable Landfills are growing at a rapid pace
After researching he discovered that most of
Help me out!
I have a great idea in education sector, but the problem is it is just the idea which I have. (I get validation from experienced people of this sector from different places).
I have no entrepreneurial skills, no business background, n
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Rahul verma
Stealth • 4m
Reflections on PR Stunts by CEOs
I want to share my thoughts on some recent PR stunts that have left me feeling a bit disappointed. Take Deepinder Goyal, for instance, delivering food with his wife in #Zomato uniforms. While I understand the intenti
The greatest accident in startup history:
A gaming studio built a simple chat tool to solve their own problem.
8 years later, Salesforce bought it for $27.7 Billion.
Here's how a side project saved a failing company and changed work forever:
In 2
The Day a Founder Almost Quit
"We're done. We should just shut it down."
I still remember his defeated expression as he said those words on a tweet. It was year 10 of his startup journey, a point where most entrepreneurs would have already thrown i
How to build great teams?
1. Hire right: Hiring is more about taking bold calls, but I learned this important framework from bhavintu founder of Zeta - he said something interesting
“ Always prioritize to hire someone who has more efficiency rate
Two young entrepreneurs in Bengaluru decide to flip the script on how startups raise money, and they do it with a twist that would make any investor/founder sit up and take notice.
Meet Vikas Bardia and Kislay Verma, the brains behind Shoffr - an el