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How much equity for co-founder reducing role for academic program?

I'm a technical co-founder in a pre-funding company in a niche tech segment, working with two non-technical co-founders who have largely overlapping skill sets. I met them at a networking event and ...
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Technical Co-Founder Contract

There are a couple startups I'm thinking about joining. They are in very early stages (seed round or incubation). I am interested in the position of technical co-founder. They've all asked that we ...
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Looking for technical cofounder [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I find a technical co-founder? I have a business idea that I am currently developing the technology for. I have hired (half cash, half equity) a friend who does ...
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I want to be a Tech Co Founder- how do I get noticed? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to find potential co-founders for a startup? I'm a developer with about 25 years of experience under my belt. Currently working on P2P programming and Ruby on Rails. ...
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Can I create a startup without a business co-founder at first?

Long story short: I've had my fair share of bad business partners (the ones who were supposed to fill the holes on the business end from legal to marketing to sales). Being a technical person with ...
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Where to look for Japanese speaking tech. co-founder?

I have a sort of "specific" dilemma. I am a founder of start-up (business networking platform) which target market is East Asia and Japan being one of the most important markets. Our beta is ready to ...
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Is a 50+ year old technical Cofounder a “fit” for a social mobile app?

I have a very specific situation regarding a potential cofounder, and would be really grateful for your feedback. I'm working on a LBS mobile app for meeting new people in real-life. I'm in my 20's ...
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Is my role as non technical guy valuable enough in this case?

How do I approach this situation? I m a non-technical guy, but I want to set up a very basic search engine which would search for data from a MYSQL database of data collected by us.The data is limited ...
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Code Copyrighted

What's the deal if you are: The only technical person on your start up / and or the one doing programming. Haven't made a penny 'on-the-books' in terms of your startup Is the code you write on your ...
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How much equity should I get as tech-cofounder? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly? I would be the sole on-site tech person, along with being 'tech-co-founder' There are two ...
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How do I fire a technical co-founder?

I came up with an idea for a business web application and teamed up with a coder to build it. He has a lot of strong points and built a good product (it's 90% done) but to cut a long story short, of ...
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Fair stake for a technical strategist?

First time posting to this Q&A so please be kind! I and a partner are looking to build a web community. However, my partner and I are both business folks. We understand to build a successful ...
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Go from contractor for a company to a CIO/co-founder?

A person I have been working for as a contractor has at one point entitled me his "CIO". He has been wanting to be his full-time developer for sometime, and I believe would be willing to make me a ...
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Should a non-techie professional start a website without a techie partner?

I am a non-IT/techie professional and have created a website through a web designing firm. Although, I have learned about various aspects of designing and running a website through reading, I am no IT ...
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How does a technical person evaluate an MBA-type business partner?

I've read a lot of questions asking about how an MBA can find a technical person to implement their idea, but I haven't seen the other direction. As a technical person, I know that I can get my idea ...