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Where are the best places to meet other programmers? (Minnesota)
This question is probably crap but I find myself scratching my head.
I'd love to meet other programmers to bounce ideas off of and maybe somewhere down to line work on a startup. (currently, my best ...
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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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Non-diluting equity for founders on an early startup LLC
The CEO of a LLC early startup plans to assign non-dilutable equity to the founders. Each founder will take a small amount of equity, leaving a pool for future employees and investors.
IMHO, what ...
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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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How can I quit from my own company
I co-founded a consulting company in Vancouver 4 years ago with 2 partners. One of us is working full-time with the company and getting a modest salary. Me and my other partner are doing couple of ...
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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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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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I want to start a social network company but I know nothing about programing
I have some ideas for a social network and really want to start a company. But I don't know how to program.
Should I learn or just find a technical partner? I know founders of tech giants like ...
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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]
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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Bringing in partner who is on an H4 Visa
My brother and I started a game company about 5 months ago. We are a general partnership. We recently went to a hackathon and I brought a friend from school as our dedicated game designer. We worked ...
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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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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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What do you think about FairSoftware?
What do you think about FairSoftware?
I'm considering adding an unknown third to a spare-time startup that is not making any money, so I'm looking for the cheapest way to officially divide the ...
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What would be better for my startup (cofounder or hire dev team)?
I am 17 and I have no one investing in me but my father. My dad might invest around $2000-$5000.
What would be a better approach to start the development of my startup?
Find a tech cofounder (I ...
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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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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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Is it considered stealing to create a startup around someone else's idea?
A business partner and I have been "working" through email together on this idea HE had. I've put in 25 hours a week for the past 3-4 months developing it, and he hasn't done much of anything on his ...
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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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Startup on F-1 Visa
I'm on an F-1 visa. Would it be possible to be a co-founder (other founders being US citizens) in a startup incorporated as a C-corp.
Thanks
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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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Thoughts on equity split [duplicate]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Vesting Schedule for an initial “100% CTO”
Classic case startup, 1 biz-dev + 1 techie. The 1 techie gets to be the lone warrior to build the entire contraption. The gut rule seems 50-50, but there are complications with that. What's a better ...
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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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How do I find a technical co-founder?
One of my friends is starting a company and he's looking for a technical co-founder to work with him to build a web app. Where should he look for technical co-founder?
Some more details: He is a ...
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How to divide assets of a defunct business?
I'm going through a breakup right now with my partner, where he and I started the company as 50/50 owners and then later brought on a third party which was then split 38/38/24 between us. This was a ...
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Programmers Who Will Work For Equity
It has been very challenging to find a programmer to work with. I currently do not have the funds to hire a developer as the funds have been used for legal expenses and to create a working site. Are ...
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How to find potential co-founders for a startup?
I've been working on a bootstrapped startup for about 2 years now. I've been working on it solo to this point, but I feel I'm starting to run out of gas. I need fresh ideas, money and assistance in ...
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How to find co-founders?
I have approached friends and family about my idea, but none of my friends are really into business like I am. Also, I come from a family of zero business owners. I'm starting college at a university, ...
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How to “date” a potential co-founder?
It's often mentioned in startup circles that partnering with a co-founder is a bit like getting married. You form a bound of sorts, and are in it together thick or thin. The importance of "dating" a ...
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Dealing with uncooperative co-founders
Just Started a business with some co-founders.
How do I set up a system so that:
When a co-founder is unwilling to work/cooperate with the rest of the team
He/she is removed
Thanks
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How to find a co-founder in the US? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I find a technical co-founder?
Finding potential co-founders for a startup
I am willing to move from france to the US but it seems hard without a co-founder to ...
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Having trouble dividing the pie w/ my partner, care to help cut the slices?
On January 15 a buddy of mine (who is not technical with a full time job in the social gaming/payment space) came to me (an independent Web Strategist SEO/Social Media looking for my next big thing) ...
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Am I a co-founder?
I'm trying to figure out what my role is...
Backstory:
Late last year (October/November) I was asked by an acquaintance If I'd be keen to help develop a SaaS product that he & his brother had ...
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How to evaluate startup co-founders based on testing their leanness and agility skills?
My guess is as in most cases existing relationships and/or validated relevant past experiences are a great start, but wondering on a ad-hoc basis what the best way to evaluate startup co-founders ...
