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Have a look at our portfolio (at tandemlaunch.com). It includes two of companies listed in the article - wrnch and fluent.ai - as well as 20+ others all working on pretty interesti…

As the previous reply kindly indicates, I am talking about more fundamental technology development. Basically the R of R&D and not just development. For example, our portfolio incl…

Montreal is a great choice indeed. I am originally from Europe (Germany, short time in Holland) and have built tech companies on the West Coast (Vancouver, SF). After a decade on t…

Thanks for the response Kristy. You are absolutely correct that there are ways to fix these problems if you have good lawyers (and leverage). But in my experience this rarely happe…

As somebody who has been on both sides of the investment table, I can confirm that very few founders understand the complexities of convertible notes (SAFE or otherwise). But I thi…

Give us (TandemLaunch) a ring if you want to do "real tech". We admittedly don't spend much time in the coffee shops, but we most certainly do about as deeply technical work as you…

TandemLaunch (www.tandemlaunch.com) is a close proxy, though still oriented to ultimately build technology companies (but still very deep tech focused). We are obviously not in the…

Ahmed, I am assuming that you are following this discussion. Based on the article, your life probably doesn't feel so good right now. Sorry to see a bright person in such a situati…

I am surprised by the distribution. Does the upper end (>$11M) represent founders or really just non-founding employees (I guess the Google-generation?)? I see 66 votes but not a s…

Depends on the IP policy of your university but generally the IP is owned by them (some universities outside of the US have an "inventor owned" policy). The good news is that you c…

There is value in a Masters because it introduces a new mode of research beyond the bachelor (self-directed investigation vs. learning by rote). The downside of the Masters is that…

It's actually fairly straightforward to achieve. What you want is a structure that rewards people linearly for the time that they contributed to the company relative to the "durati…