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Mike Moyer

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Mike is a career entrepreneur and investor who has started and run companies in a variety of industries ranging from clothing manufacturing to marketing technology. Today he runs Slicing Pie, a SaaS company that helps startup founders create perfectly fair equity splits, and MosquitOasis that makes pop-up mosquito net tents for kids.

He teaches entrepreneurship at Northwestern University and has held other faculty appointments at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and MIT. He has written eight books with a focus on business and entrepreneurship including Pitch Ninja, The Slicing Pie Handbook, and Will Work for Pie.

He has an MS in integrated marketing from Northwestern University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He ...more

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	Slicing Pie - Funding Your Business Without Funds 4.16 avg rating — 1,015 ratings — published 2012 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Slicing Pie Handbook: Perfectly Fair Equity Splits for Bootstrapped Startups by Mike Moyer (Goodreads Author), Noam Wasserman (Foreword) 4.04 avg rating — 276 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pitch Ninja: Persuasive Pitching and Presenting 4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Get Them Gators! A Primer on the Power of Dynamic Equity Splits for Potential Investors, Partners and Employees 4.18 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Make Colleges Want You: Insider Secrets for Tipping the Admissions Odds in Your Favor 3.20 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slicing Pie Handbook European Union Edition really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trade Show Samurai: The Four Core Arts for Capturing Leads 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fair and Square: Perfect Equity Splits for Startups 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bird's Eye Business: A Primer on How Companies Work 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ian Ate: The Gastronomic Exploits of a Child it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Startup Equity is a Bad Motivator

Luke, you are the motivator, stop whining.

Using equity to motivate startup founders and early employees is a bad idea. Yep, I said it: equity is a bad motivator. I’m sure there are plenty of smart, successful, experienced people who would vehemently disagree with me, but I stand by my opinion.

Too many founders think that giving equity to an employee is going to magically transform their rag-tag te

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“The world seems to be designed in a way that success is never as easy as we hope. Getting there takes not only the right vision, but also the right level of perseverance that some people just don’t have.”
― Mike Moyer, Slicing Pie: Fund Your Company Without Funds

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“Being an entrepreneur requires a great amount of trust and confidence. It requires bold moves and big ideas that change the way people think about life. When entrepreneurs become less confident and less trusting effectiveness diminishes. When they get burned by their partners they do learn, but they learn bad lessons. They learn to spend more time covering their own butts. They learn to spend more time and money writing contracts and agreements.”
― Mike Moyer, Slicing Pie: Fund Your Company Without Funds

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“When employees give up and stay, the environment becomes plagued with resentment and low morale.”
― Mike Moyer, Slicing Pie: Fund Your Company Without Funds