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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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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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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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The case of a co-founder (seeking answers on compensation/equity stake)
I am writing to describe my entrepreneurial venture and seek your comments on what I should expect for myself as the new company gets started.
My colleague of many years at my previous company (a ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Idea for a product outside my competency - how to proceed?
I have an idea for a very niche/boutique slightly naughty chocolate product to be sold online, but I am not sure how to approach it. The product will require moulding/shaping chocolate into a ...
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Where do you the draw the line making compromises with your business partner?
I started working on a SaaS application with a friend of 30 years 9 months ago. The original idea came from me and my friend/partner/CTO helped with the development of the application. Throughout the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How do I fire a co-founder of my startup?
I have been working with a business cofounder for about a year and it is time for me to let him go. We were supposed to get funded and we never did. So, I am thinking of terminating the company and ...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Are Investors needed in internet startup?
The business founder on my team thinks we need 45-60% of investors since he doesn't have a full time job (and thus no income coming in) since he is a fresh graduate.
Is this a realistic reasoning for ...
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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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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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Equity split amongst founders
I have gone through all the related questions regarding my case on the website. I still feel that I could post my question because it is different from the others. Please share your thoughts. Thanks.
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How to share the profit in a LLP company?
After successfully building an online business as sole proprietor, I decided register my company as Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) company. Now we are two partners. How will we share the profit ...
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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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Co-founder quarterly equity issuance
Is it a good idea to issue shares on a regular basis (say quarterly) to all co-founders based on performance/value/etc.?
I've read a bunch of blog posts and questions here about equity split but none ...
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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 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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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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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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How to split up revenue between partners who contribute different amounts of work
My co-founder and I will soon launch a micro ISV. Our current agreement states that we split ownership 50-50. However, since we reached the ownership agreement the amount of work we have put into ...
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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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Is this a fair partnership proposal?
I am the technical founder of a software product, the product is finished with good inputs from at least 6 to be customers. My to be Sales partner who is already helping me from the past 4 weeks ...
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Co-founder equity for a Beta software product
I am adding a Sales and Marketing co-founder for my start up. The product is already developed and we have 3 unpaid customers so far (Private Beta). My co-founder will work full time on this venture ...
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How do I choose a leader for my startup?
OK I was reading this post here Equity distribution amongst startup co-founders
And I was thinking ok once the equity has been discussed and agreed upon, who is the leader,Is it the guy with the most ...
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What about finding a technical co-founder overseas and invite him over to my country?
Here's the case. I have great ideas about starting a social networking company, but I am not a programmer. So I need to find a technical co-founder first, I mean a really awesome ass-kicking ...
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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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Sales and Marketing Co-founder-Ivy League MBA or Industry Expert?
I am working on a software product, which is going to revolutionize a specific industry. I checked with couple of top guys in this industry and they are all impressed. It is a billion dollar problem. ...
