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GUIDES How Much Equity to Give an Advisor at Your Startup, and When Not To
Most founders give away advisor equity based on flattery and guilt, not data, and end up with a cap table full of names who did one intro call two years ago.Here's the question every founder eventually gets cornered by: how much equity to give an advisor at a startup who just offered to "help out"? The honest answer is that most advisors are worth somewhere between 0.1% and 1%, vested over one to ...
Judith Murphy
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How Much Equity to Give an Advisor at Your Startup, and When Not To
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