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				<title><![CDATA[A difficult task indeed.&nbsp; T]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[A difficult task indeed.&nbsp; That youtube price is incredible.&nbsp; It will be interesting to see what Google does with that.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[I am familiar with valuation bas]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I am familiar with valuation based on future net income, however, if I were to apply that model towards youtube or myspace, I would get a paltry valuation. As I am sure you are already aware, youtube was acquired for $1.6B+ and myspace for $600M+. I unders[...]]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Your story scares me, as well as]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Your story scares me, as well as others I`d imagine.&nbsp; To have 2nd round financing come in and dilute your shares to worthlessness is concerning, but perhaps it was necessary.&nbsp; Anti-dilution measures can help protect initial investors but that ]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[

RobertJ, RaiseCapital, thank]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[

RobertJ, RaiseCapital, thanks for your feedback.RobertJ, can you give me a specific example of why using equity initially would be expensive in the long term? I ask this because I was the "consultant" a number of years back for a startup. I agr]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Would it depend on the value of ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Would it depend on the value of the shares? For example, it your selling shares at $1 per share, the number of hours should coincide with the hours worked. If the person is charging $20 a hour, you will give him or her 20 shares. Is this right?]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[done with that subject]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[done with that subject]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[While I understand the reasons f]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[While I understand the reasons for using equity in place of cash to compensate employees and contracted help, be aware that it is usually very expensive -long term.
The first step in the process is to agree upon values.

The value ]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Hi everyone,I am in the process ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone,I am in the process of getting my high-tech startup going and have to figure out how to apportion stock ownership for various "consultants" I plan to recruit. From everything I read, there is no formula for this, so any real-world exper]]></description>
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