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I've got a good dilemma going. Background: I was first employee turned CTO at a startup that exited. We did ok. Not great, but not bad either. I left the acquirer after a year or so, making sure my team and our tech was…

tldr: I realize the answer to this is "talk to a lawyer" but I'm curious of what the process looks like. The long story is that I formed a corp using Stripe Atlas earlier in 2018. We were making plans and had done some…

Specifically a software offering in the B2C space, but something more general works too. What books/articles do you recommend for a product and technology background person to get their heads around to-to-market?

How are non-solicitation agreements typically viewed for colleague leaving to start a business together? For instance an engineer and product manager decide to leave a company that they’re both working for to create a…

This weekend I spent some time going through Tren Griffin's new collection of essays "A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs." There is some good advice and great content. I can't help but notice a big gap in the talking…

I'm hearing more and more that VCs are asking for the removal of single trigger clauses for founders and key employees. Have you every been asked to give it up? What did you get in return and how do you feel about your…

I don't have enough insight into the larger startup world, but had this discussion with some coworkers and was curious of the HN opinion. Are there any startups using Java, not the JVM, today? Say any in the last year…

Good evening all, I'm currently doing the first engineer deal at a startup privy to a lot of things but very clearly not a founder and not in the financial conversations. Everything is going well we've got term sheet(s)…

I've never been a huge fan of the 1 year cliff for early employees, myself being one. I've been looking over some terms of a new agreement, and it seemed to be that it would make sense for there to be a vesting trigger…