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First Meeting Questions
Hypothetical situation: A group of future co-founders are getting together for the first time. There's one guy with an idea and 1-5 co-founders interested in jumping in. People may have met, talked ...
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We are bootstrapping our startup, Is this a fair compensation offer? [duplicate]
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Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
We have a team made up of four co-founders. Our equity split is:
Co-founder #1 40%
Co-founder #2 5%
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Rating potential business partners or co-founders for building the right network
I have the problem that i always meet the wrong people.
Most of the people i know on the one hand don't want to be self employed or on the other hand want to found a business but are to optimistic ...
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How to fire a co-founder that owns 30% of shares?
Co-founder performance in the startup has dropped. He clearly has other priorities in his professional life, like other startups, and he doesn't want to give up his 30% shares.
The only written ...
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Dealing with Co-founder without the same commitment
Imagine the following scenario:
1 founder and self proclaimed CEO , created an idea for a new website internet services, and started developing it. The core of the system is done, he decides that one ...
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H1B co-founder for company that may not make profit for 3-4 years
Our question is very similar to this one: While H1B can I work on my interested Idea as Startup with no intention of earning?
We have one co-founder on a H1B visa who we want to make a legal ...
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What are main functions of a start up that need continous attention
So we are 2 co-founders having a full time job and from the last 14 months are working on a social network. I wanted to share the name of our start up here, but somehow I think that would be cheap ...
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Question about terminating contract with employee
Not sure if this the right place to ask but here it goes:
We (myself and 2 founders) found our startup about a year ago. Then we brought on an employee to work part-time and had him sign a contract. ...
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Moral Question regarding Co-Founders
When I joined a friend at our start-up I said I'd do two years then leave (I want to do other things), so we raised seed and my two years were up a few months ago. Now we're trying to raised a series ...
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Do investors run away from entrepreneurs that have interests in 2 start-ups at the same time?
I am involved in 2 bootstrapped startups at the moment:
startup 1: I am a co-founder, have executive position and I work full
time on it
startup 2: I am a co-founder and provided a quite unique ...
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Received a technical co-founder offer contract. Advice
Myself and two partners are the business end of a new start up. We have been looking for a fourth and final co-founder, which would be our programmer. We found one that wants to be a part of what we ...
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Partnership disagreement
My business partner and I have formed a partnership, we are in the process of drafting our partnership agreement.
One of the points that he wants on there is:
If one of the partners leaves they ...
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To the Coders…what would you consider acceptable terms to join a new start up?
If you were approached by an idea guy (one with not much money), and lets say that the idea itself was an 8 to 10...what would you consider acceptable terms to join the start up? If you could give 2 ...
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Advice on starting a company where founders are in different countries?
My co-founder and I are reaching a point where we need to make some decisions about where and how to incorporate. One of us is in the US (California) where most of our customers will be for the first ...
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Co-founding a Canadian startup while not being a Canadian resident
I've been invited to join a startup in Quebec as a co-founder. I'm not a Canadian resident, so I'm wondering if there are any limitations I might encounter (and if it's really possible at all).
If ...
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Do I need a technical cofounder?
I am in the very early stages of my first startup. I am not technical so I was wondering if getting a technical cofounder should be my first step or if I can go it alone with just my idea at first? I ...
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what is a fair percentage ownership for sole developer of tech startup (4th co-founder)?
My husband was brought on as a 4th partner of a startup last year. Unfortunately, he did not take the LLC legal docs to a lawyer to make sure the % he was being offered was fair before signing.
He ...
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Looking for technical cofounder [duplicate]
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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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Equity share in product not company
thanks for taking the time to read this, any advise is welcomed.
A friend of mine is trying to get launch a new piece of software. As we work well together and he wants to keep initial development ...
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Seeking advice on the order in which to do things
So we have our idea, the site map pretty much laid out and designed, and now we are ready to start looking for a development team. Right now we have three founders and we are looking for one ...
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Unorthodox Startup Formation
Two other founders and I are planning to start an S-class tech firm. All of us have a government background and are new to the process: one founder is the notional CFO and has thus far handled the ...
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Am I a cofounder and how many equity shares should I take?
An engineer creates a product with most fundamental functions and is almost ready to establish a new company. He wants me to be in charge of the marketing for the new company/product. For now, only he ...
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My co-founder turned out to be a lazy person, how should I talk to him?
My co-founder simply comes to the office whenever he wants, some days he "prefer working from home" and such. I just can't stand the fact I am there 12+ hours and him less then 8. There is a lot to be ...
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Evaluating initial contribution in a business startup
Here’s a business scenario involving two persons:
Person A:
- has business strategy and technology road map for a line of business in software
- has 4-5 customer prospects who are interested in ...
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Do 2 Part time Developers = 1 full time developer?
If I could partner with 2 or more part time developers, would this be enough and as good as having a full time developer? Eg 4 part time developers = 2 full time developers?
I am basing this on the ...
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Vesting for large group of part-time cofounders
I am involved with a startup that has a very unique structure. We started as friends, all working in our spare time, never intending for it to become a business. Eventually, it started catching on and ...
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Importance of Business Networking in a Tech Company
Everybody seems to think the opposite, but does it really matters how well you are connected with others entrepreneurs, developers or VCs when you own a tech company?
It seems obvious that it helps ...
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Existing startup new co-founder equity
I have been building a SAAS product for a vertical industry for the last two years. The product is now pretty mature. As a geek my sales and marketing skills are pretty rubbish so am are looking at ...
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I want to be a Tech Co Founder- how do I get noticed? [duplicate]
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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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How do i find a business development co-founder? [duplicate]
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What's the best way to find/evaluate a Marketing co-founder?
I've been working on my mobile security startup since last 6+ months and the product is getting close to ...
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Equity sharing with new cofounder
I contracted the development of a prototype for my web app. The developing company liked the idea, so rather than paying them cash in full, they agreed to a reduced price in exchange for 20% of the ...
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Co-founder with non-voting shares
I have an offer on a table to join this really exciting venture at 50/50 split as a tech co-founder but the original founder insists on issuing me non-voting shares. He worries that he will loose ...
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Resolving a cofounder conflict in product direction and equity
My team has 3 founders: 2 technical & 1 non-technical. We just started a few months ago. The non-technical 1 is like the VP Marketing: has a few key contacts for our launch strategy, built our ...
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How old does one legally have to be to start/own a share in a company in the US?
I am 18 but my co-founder is 17. (In other words, I am able to sign a binding contract, he is not.) We are getting ready to incorporate our startup — but is my co-founder old enough to start, and own ...
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Contract for start-up employees and how to secure myself as the leader of the company
I'm a computer science student and have had an idea for a website for a while. Up until now, I haven't told anyone about it(even my family and girlfriend). Anyways, I decided to tell a friend of ...
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Starting out, what should co-founders focus on more, structure or results?
Roughly only 30% of the potential co-founders I chat with for 5-mins or more believe that getting meaningful results in the real world is less important than first reaching agreements about who owns ...
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cofounder - she's not leaving
So I've got a startup with a three friends of mine cofounding and on board. We used to have a fourth. When we originally started and got all of our documents in order, the fourth girl received a high ...
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Is it necessary to have a Co-founder and team and then go to VC
I have single-handedly written all code needed for an alpha/beta till date.
Now i want to go beta and hire marketing professionals and a developer.
For that i need money and VC funds.
Shall i look ...
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Issues with Start-Up and Co-Founders
Currently I am stuck in a messy situation where I am the only designer/developer for the web driven start up, along with being co-founder, the other two co-founders (business guy and editor), are ...
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Thoughts on equity split [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
I'd appreciate your thoughts on this situation:
I am a developer that has worked on a on 2 products ...
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Bringing in co-founder after launch
I have been bootstrapping for 1.5 years, coding part-time while keeping my full time job. I have also invested some 10k into my project.
Now, the workload seems to pile up over time, and I know I ...
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Co-founder wants to leave, do I pay him back the money he invested into the business?
My co-founder and I have been working on a business idea. We both invested money into getting it to a MVP stage, but it hasn't been launched and does not make any money. (It is basically a modified ...
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Licensed software and due diligence: sufficient?
In the process of due diligence for an investment or for M&A, I ask:
Considering that all other software is property of the company, is it sufficient to have a non-core part of the software, ...
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Side projects while being a co-founder and officer of a company
There is already an awesome question and answers on IP and spare time related to employees:
If I'm working at a company, do they have intellectual property rights to the stuff I do in my spare ...
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IP: Maintain property over source code
I have code of mine, developed before joining the company as a co-founder, that I used for the company product (website) but want to retain the copyright and all IP rights to it and to be able to use ...
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Co-Founder or First Employee ? How much equity?
Joined together to create a new venture with my ex-boss, we shared a great work dynamics and gelled well together, had complimentary skills & liked the idea and hence I decided to start together.
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Founder Shares for new venture - when one founder is only an advisor?
I am starting a new company with a long friend. He had the original idea but we both developed the idea and spent approx equal amount of funds to get it to the state of developing and launching with ...
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Startup equity share among co-founders: What is the fair thing to do
In a startup company, there are 4 people involved, and all of them work on a sweat equity basis. Here are the people and their role:
Person #1: Helped shape the idea with person #2. One of the two ...
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Do two co-founders pair program during early stage of startup?
I have a startup with 2 co-founders (me and my partner). My partner is a programmer, whereas I am a half-programmer, half-designer, half-business guy.
I have had exceptional experience with pair ...
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as one of the co-founders, can i have an equity and profit share both in mother holding corporation and subsidiary holding corporation?
the funders for my projects plan to put up a holding corporation. this holding corporation is intended to fund feasible projects by various project proponents not only those projects by me but ...
