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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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Should I give away 10% equity to a super advisor?
I'm a sole founder of a rather ambitious company which I have worked tirelessly to build. The company will require some heavy lifting from well connected political persons to help the company to ...
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Can I quit as co-founder of my company and then recreate the company without my co-founder?
As my product has evolved my co-founder's skill set has become irrelevant. Furthermore, I've come to believe his efforts at this point are hurting our potential more so than helping it.
We are ...
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What is the difference between a Business Partner and Co-Founder?
Maybe it's just semantics, but I am putting the word out that my biz will benefit from either.
We have pushed a product off the shelf and are starting to acquire customers, yet the effort has grown ...
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Co-Founders in multiple countries
I am working on an idea With friends across the continent, and we would like to go into development together and build the market in both the countries at the same time.Currently and in the immediate ...
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Leave startup but still keep ownership
I'm a co-founder of a 2 1/2 year old early-stage software company. The company was completely bootstrapped, no outside investing, and we have modest revenue for being such a small company (approx ...
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Establishing shared ownership
What is a reasonable software start-up ownership share between founders when one is more senior, putting in some of his own money and able to raise angel money from friends, while the other two are ...
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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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Sample agreements document for founders
Are there any good and short agreements document for founders? (not investors)
Focusing on:
Responsibility, e.g. hours of work (some of them may not be fulltime)
Vesting period
Any hints?
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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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Perception of fairness in a startup, what is the next move for this situation?
I’ve funded a startup with 4 more friends (my fault, but keep reading) and I am taking care of nearly everything.
To put you into perspective, we are setting up something with the same ...
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What is are fair equity stakes between early tech founder and later biz founder?
I've been developing a SaaS project for about 4 months now. About two weeks ago, I invited a friend to join the project to work on building relationships with vc's, drafting documentation, a little ...
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Is there anything we can do to spice up a “for equity” offer to potential co-founders?
New member. Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
I'm a first time Founder to a start up. We pushed the online application off the shelf as a prototype and have some traction with 150 users. 1.0 ...
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How do I deal with a co-founder who hasn't contributed?
Question: How do I deal with a co-founder who came up with the idea, asked me to partner with him, and now hasn't done anything since we agreed on going into business together.
Background: My friend ...
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As a single founder, is it worth the effort to add a new (novice) co-founder?
I have often read that single founder companies are given lower priority by incubators and angels. I was thinking about bringing in an additional founder.
They will be "new." First, I will have to ...
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As a founder/shareholder/officer in a startup, do I pay myself as an employee(W2) or contractor(1099-MISC)?
I've looked around, but can't seem to find a straightforward answer for this.
I am one of 4 founders in a start-up incorporated as a C-corp. 2 of us work full-time on the start-up, and so far have ...
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Invented a lighter to replace smoking lighters, how to start up without capital or experience?
Great site! I need help.
I am a heavy smoker. Few months ago I invented 3 vaporization devices, made prototypes and started vaporizing instead of smoking.
I use the devices vaporize tobacco in the ...
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Leave Seed Stage Startup - Partnership Issues
My partner and I started an online service. When we formed the idea for the company, we came out strong with a lot of energy, but it seems as if my partner's priorities are now elsewhere.
I'm the ...
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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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Few startups questions with Partner who has H1B status
Myself and two other partners are planning to start a C-Corporation. One of the partners is on H1B visa sponsored by his employer and he is getting a W2 from them. We have few questions:
Can a ...
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Teammates have pushed me out of our venture. What to do now?
I along with 3 other people created a concept for an innovative Ecommerce platform as part of a 5 week startup pre-incubator. We had a great run and on demo day we won the audience and panel of ...
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IP Ownership Dispute
My partner and I are having a dispute. I wanted to know who owns the code in a company with one technical cofounder (me) who has written the entire code. I was the one who came up the idea and started ...
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How to (not) move ahead with my cofounder
I need some advice on how to handle the current situation with my co-founder. I am not happy working with him, we haven't signed any contracts or agreements, and he has put in a lot of hours over the ...
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Where I can find CMO or Director of Publicity as co-founder
I`m a social community website founder. By only one person, I make the site have over 8000+ members and about 100,000 Alexa rank. A kind of some famous social community in my country. But it is still ...
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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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Co-founder required - cut your own deal [closed]
I'm taking my first few steps in attracting a co-founder. With all the questions, comments and advice I've read concerning attracting a co-founder comes down to integrity...thee most important ...
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Equity Distribution in a startup company
I have a few questions regarding equity distribution that I would like to get cleared out, since I am the core developer and CTO of this project and have very little idea on businesses etc.
My ...
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How to find business person who reall knows demands of small biz, not talkative idea guy?
I'm a solid programmer with 5+ years of experience in software development. I know how to do things from beginning to the end and want to start my own company. I spend for more them 6 months in search ...
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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 do I find a “techie” to help build a start up website?
I have a great idea for a start-up business, but need to find someone that would be willing to partner with me. I must find someone that is much more tech savvy than myself that can build a relatively ...
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Start up on student visa in the US
Has anyone, on this forum, started a business on student visa (F1) in US?
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How would I split ownership if I'm typically the idea guy and leading the product development?
This question is very similar to this one: Revenue Split - I am doing 100% of the programming work, he's the idea man
The difference however is that I'm typically the idea guy and will also be ...
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90 days and $XXK to get to the finish line?
This is a related question to another post I made here: Partnership agreement advice -- I have the idea & ops, he has the marketing investment and industry exp.
But here's a critical issue that I ...
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Restricted stocks and co-founders firing each other
I am part of a 3 member start-up. When we started(6 month) ago we split the equity equally between us and signed a vesting agreement with a 1 year cliff.
We have been having some internal ...
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Partnership agreement advice — I have the idea & ops, he has the marketing investment and industry exp
I successfully pitched a player in an industry about a business idea that offers a novel approach to creating leads in his industry. He presently runs a company that I'll call a "provider of services" ...
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How should I structure my web start up considering one of my new partners is in Sweden?
I've started a website that has gained significant popularity. While we don't make any money yet I now require the help of another person. The individual that I have brought on lives in Sweden. I want ...
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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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Advice on having my friend as a co-founder for this startup
I have a friend that lives in another country and wants to join my startup, working part time outside his day job. He said he'll work on weekends mostly. I've started it about 1 year ago working on it ...
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Reasonable share in startup company
I am working on a startup project (software) and I'm really enjoying it. I think the company has great potential.
Up until now, the work has been part time and I've been able to fit it into my spare ...
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Would you have a friend be a startup advisor?
Is there anything wrong with having a friend (who cannot commit to be a co-founder right now) be a startup advisor to help the effort along? This is a friend who you'd prefer to be a co-founder with ...
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How much should a technical cofounder be paid?
I have the following skillset: xhtml, js, jquery, css, php, C#, asp.net, mysql, oracle, etc.
I would be the tech. co-founder of a startup with 2 other co-founder (business end) and be the sole ...
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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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What can a co-founder do to have a say in the company when everything goes in favour of the main founder?
A two signatory account
will be created but the
main founder can sign
without the co-founder
signature; on the other side, the co-
founder can not sign
without the main
founder's signature.
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How to find a technical co-founder without compromising our company's plans?
We are a team of 2 and we hit an idea about a social media startup some time back.
Everything said and done we know that we don't have a tech cofounder.
while we look for one we don't want to discuss ...
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What would be a reasonable equity when you execute on some one else's basic idea for less than market salary?
I am in some what a unique situation. I work for a friend owned software services company which has only 1 share holder - Founder & CEO. I joined them to execute on a product idea that the Founder ...
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How can I avoid being screwed by my co-founder
Im involved in a start up and I fear that at some point in the future my co-founder is going to screw me out my position or shares. What protections can I setup and what should I do avoid this from ...
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How to go forward after the death of my technical co-founder?
I am asking this question on behalf of a friend, who until recently was bootstrapping a startup (a social web app) with her husband. He was the developer and she supported the business in other ways. ...
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Bringing on equal partner after starting solely bootstrapped?
I came up with an idea for a startup, and after trying to start other ventures with non-paid partners I knew the only way to get this done right was to hire a developer straight up to code the ...
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Bringing part time hacker on-board for equity only. How much equity is fair?
[Disclaimer: This question was also posted on Hacker News]
Howdy,
Just 6 weeks ago my co-founder and I began working on our startup full time. We want to accelerate development and have talked to a ...
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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 ...
