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Early Stage Advisor Equity Grants

November 18, 2022 by Eric Friedman

I have been thinking about early stage equity and advisor grants for some time, including a post in 2016, that I rely on and wanted to revisit. I have had a few founder friends reach out to me asking about how much equity to give to an advisor, and had some operators reach out asking …

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Tags: Advising, Building The Machine

Alchemist Blockchain Techstars Accelerator 2019

February 9, 2019 by Eric Friedman

Tuesday night I attended the kickoff for mentors and got to hear from the companies that have joined the Alchemist Blockchain Techstars Accelerator in New York – it was a lot of fun and well executed by the managing director of the program Yossi Hasson. He has put together an incredible team it seems with …

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Tags: Advising, Alchemist, TechStars

Team Offsite Values Exercise

September 11, 2018 by Eric Friedman

Values are an important part of hiring and team building, but hard to justify the time to create them. This is a framework I have used with early stage teams to come up with values with the entire team.  It works well for <10 person companies and takes around 1.5 hours. The output is a …

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Tags: Advising, Values

The startup accelerator application process

December 5, 2014 by Eric Friedman

One piece of advice I have found helpful to new founders is going through the application process for startup programs.  Whether an accelerator, incubator, launch, or other flavor of program helpful to early stage startups – almost all of the application processes are incredibly helpful.  The goal of course is to have ready and willing …

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Tags: Advising, startups

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