throwaway-acct

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   by throwaway-acct 11y ago

   A perfectly valid, if somewhat ominous, point...
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   by throwaway-acct 11y ago

   > You call it your product? Did you meet with the customers? Did you build it in a complete vacuum? Is it completely unrelated to anything anyone else in the company was building? Did you pay your own salary? I don't wish to be argu
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   by throwaway-acct 11y ago

   I'm not sure of the exact number but it's somewhere between five and ten percent of the company, in incentive options (I'm not the first employee but a large stake was a condition of my agreeing to join the company in the fir
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   by throwaway-acct 11y ago

   > I have to point out though your assumption is that the product is the key asset a buyer will be interested in. Is this the intention of the founders as well? Because counter-intuitive as it may seem, the new company might be more inter
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   by throwaway-acct 11y ago

   I am a key employee; as I said I invented and built the product, and I'll be the one demoing it to potential acquirers.
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   Ask HN: Talk me through the acquihire process

   110 points by throwaway-acct 11y ago|41 comments