How to Properly Compensate Friends and Family Who Invest In Your Startup

Your first investors are usually taking the biggest risks. Are you giving them what they deserve?

Aaron Dinin, PhD
Entrepreneurship Handbook
6 min readMar 14, 2022

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I was meeting with a couple of founders who’d been working on their startup for a few months. Someone in one of their families had offered them funding, and they wanted my advice…

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I teach entrepreneurship at Duke. Software Engineer. PhD in English. I write about the mistakes entrepreneurs make since I’ve made plenty. More @ aarondinin.com