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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?
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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 ...
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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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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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Finding a co-founder
I am currently looking for a co-founder.
The current candidate and I are still students, and we are not experienced in business at all. However, I know he loves sales and marketing, and he usually ...
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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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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. ...
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How important are complementary co-founders?
Im a technical founder thats on the look out for a business minded co-founder. I am interested in the business side (I want to build a real business around my product) but I recognise that this is ...
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Is there an inbetween step between “a trial period” and “co-founder”?
Greetings,
I am planning on joining a start up with someone as a co-founder and right now we're in a hurry to get product off the ground. I've worked with this person in
a trial period and I ...
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Dividing Up the Partnership of New Company Between Founders
So I'm starting a New Company that offers internet marketing services to businesses. There are two other founders besides myself, these are people that I am bringing on to help grow the business. They ...
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What's the difference between a founder and a co-founder?
I was wondering what the difference between a founder and a co-founder was.
I am the founder of a company and I have worked on the project by myself then brought on board a partner to work on the ...
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In evaluating a co-founder offer, how do you value the benefits of failure?
I'm a tech guy looking to join a company as a co-founder. Quite often companies are in various stages.
For example for 2 different business offers, pre-seed/pre-series A: Lets say founder A, spends ...
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What's in a Title?
Newly minted business owner with a tech background, and looking to the business folks to give some insight as to what's in a title?
Our company is small, just my wife and myself for now. Our filing ...
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I was just offered a position as cofounder of a startup with someone who I have not known previously are there any legal steps to take?
I was just offered a position as cofounder of an already established startup. The revenue on it is minimal. This was the first I had met the founder. Are there any legal steps or other steps I should ...
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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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Things to Consider as a New Technical CoFounder
I have been offered a position as a technical co-founder (composed of 3 cofounders).
We're in the midst of trying to figure how much % of funding we want.
We have between 45-60% of our company could ...
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What do you do when you have an idea _and_ money but no expertise or experience creating a technical product?
I know that seems like a "how do I cope with my spoil of riches?" type question and I apologize in advance for being the type of amateur class that for all I know has a popular tumblr blog dedicated ...
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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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Biotech startup: How do I split up the roles/responsibilities of three founders?
I am creating a medical device startup and I have some issues determining how to split up the various roles and responsibilities of founders, among other problems. My brother, a friend/partner, and I ...
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Fourth co-founder but first developer
I came in as 4th co-founder with some old friends but am the only developer. I am doing all of the work right now and quit my job to work on the project. Two of the other guys are learning how to code ...
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Should I drop my co-founder?
So I started building this company back in January, completely on my own. I knew there would be a lot of work to be done, so just recently I told a PHP buddy about the site. He got really excited ...
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How do you hire your first people to your startup?
I really wonder how do you hire your first employees if you were working on an internet startup alone. I really wonder if there are experienced people which started their startup alone and expand it. ...
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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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Programmers Working For Equity
I've been having so much trouble finding a programmer to work with. I don't have the money to pitch out to hire a developer, I've tried and failed to code on my own, and I rarely get responses from ...
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When to drop a co-founder?
There are some excellent posts on how to select a co-founder and what qualities you should look for. I firmly believe in 'try it out', and have been for about 5 months. In that time I've also come ...
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How many shares of stock to create when starting a company
I am thinking of creating a startup and want to allocate stock to various co-founders. Is there any sort of system for knowing how many shares to create of a new company?
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When looking for co-founder, what can be expected
What problems did you run into form the point where you started your search for co-founder to the point where you struck a deal.
Also what are some good ideas that would make the process easier.
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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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Where to look for co-founder with marketing skills
I have worked about an year on my startup website and I found that I need co-founder that would be able to sell ice to the eskimo nation online (online: marketing, sale and PR. But more of manager ...
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Should young people get older cofounders?
When you're a young and relatively inexperienced founder, should age be a factor in choosing a co-founder (or in deciding if you need a co-founder at all)? Does having someone on board who's ...
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How do I find a technical co-founder for a Web based startup?
I have deep knowledge and experience in a specific industry.
I can identify a web based business model that has been successfully deployed in another industry that I believe would be applicable to my ...
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If there are 2 co-founders, who is “employee #1”?
Maybe this is a silly question, but credit for being "employee #1" seems to matter a lot. So if I'm the CEO, and the idea was originally mine, but I'm launching the start-up with my CTO, and we've ...
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Compensation for Co-founders, plus additional vested equity
I have a company share proposal for co-founders of a web-application startup. I would like to if the structure makes sense, or if anyone can suggest a more suitable structure, which has the desired ...
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How to ensure each co-founder is pulling his own weight?
I am starting a business with my brother and a third party. I do not trust this third party and we are soon to sign contracts that will give him possibly 25% of the company. He has other business ...
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How much equity can I reasonable expect for joining a pre-funded startup that is starting over?
I was recently asked by a founder of a pre-funded web startup (he's the only member) to redo his entire platform, and I'd like some help determining a reasonable equity distribution for my situation.
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How to build a founding team
I am working on a startup idea, and currently I am taking it solo. I would very much like to have 1-2 other people to work on it with me. I am a programmer, and I would like a 2nd programmer, and ...
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Traction & Team Building… With Program Yet Uncompleted
To-date I'm self funding a new start-up. I've hired two programmers who have helped me get the web-based program to about 85% completion. At this point due to unexpected financial obligations on the ...
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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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How to deal with a partner who doesn't want to leave his day-job?
I'm a biz dev & marketing guy with a development background and about a year ago I started coding an idea. It took shape and I mentioned it to an ex-colleague / friend. He was extremely unhappy in ...
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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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Co-founder commitment discrepancy
I am the co-founder of a start-up and my partner was committed for the first 5 months, then decided to take a job and was intermittently involved. My interest is to advance the technology and ...
