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How can a departing co-founder be compensated for giving back already vested shares?
I'm leaving a startup I co-founded, with some of my shares already vested. The other shareholders want me to give back more shares than specified by our vesting agreement.
It does seem to make sense ...
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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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How can I protect my future position in a startup?
I took part alone in a 4 months acceleration program for startups, during which I worked on the idea, I did market and customer research and all the usual things needed before start a new company. At ...
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What are the pitfalls of joining a husband/wife team as a co-founder [closed]
I have been approached by a husband/wife team to work with them as a technical co-founder on SaaS venture they have been working on.
What kind of challenges would the third wheel founder encounter ...
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Can fund my own startup in return for equity if that dilutes ex-cofounders?
My biz partner and I split up (not amicably) a couple of months ago, and he left my bootstrapped startup business. When he left, his total equity in the company was vested up to 20%. I own the other ...
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co-founder share distribution [closed]
My life partner and I are co-founders of a SaaS startup that after 4 years is generating some cash flow. At initial distribution the split was 73:27 in his favour, because it was his idea and he had ...
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co-founder not pulling their weight
My co-founder and I have been working on my idea for the past 18 months. Throughout, despite statements of their commitment, I have always done the vast majority of the work. We have had serious ...
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Where are there resources for technology cofounders [closed]
I am in the process of pulling together an open source resource that will hopefully increase the success of technology co founders.
There feels to be a gap here, as most of the ...
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Splitting equity between founders [duplicate]
X was working part-time on an idea and after about a year and a basic demo in hand, he talked to two potential people (A and B) who would become co-founders but would work part-time just like X. The ...
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joining a startup, question about equity [duplicate]
(also posted on The Workplace)
A friend of mine (no tech bg, but lots of business xp) is planning to found a startup and has invited me to be the CTO.
I have some background working in IT and in ...
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Terms of agreement with a co-founder after split-up
I recently quit working with my co-founder. We had started a software business together and had agreed on a certain profit share. But shortly after the launch of the apps, we had to split because he ...
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How do I add a new business partner?
We are a tech consulting company and our current group consists of four equity partners. We are interested in adding a new "business" partner, as our current partners are all technical, but we know ...
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Late founder equity allocation
Guy is late coming founder, the company not yet incorporated.
I designed the product (several biomed multisensor devices) and taken it from concept to a mature prototype ready for manufacturing (1 ...
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Question About C-Corp, Shareholder, and Officer
Person A wants to start a C-Corp in California operating a news website. He is wondering if the following form is legal?
A is the only Shareholder and the only Director owning 100% equity.
A will ...
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What should be the role of other person I involve in Startup given my scenario
What shall be the role of the person I am involving in launching my start-up(about to register and launch), As initially I see me and him performing project management part of it(as implementation ...
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How to tell my co-founder that he is lazy and needs to step up his game?
I have a two member software start-up with a co-founder who is also a very good friend.
We make decent money through our products and services, but could do much much better if my co-founder did not ...
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Left my startup pre-launch. What percent equity is fair?
6 months ago I quit my job to start a startup with two other people. I'm the business guy. I worked full-time on the project from day No. 1, and made substantial contributions to branding, customer ...
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Setting a stock vesting schedule retroactively
So here's the the quick summary:
Three co-founders with shares equally divided. Started working on it about a year ago, got incorporated about 4 months ago. Now one of the co-founders wants to leave.
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Sticky IP situation
We are in a sticky situation, that is no ones fault but our own. We had approached a developer to join our startup. After showing him the project he was excited and decided to join. Our mistake was ...
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How to find developers for a startup with next separation of the business?
I'm a software developer and I have made the first alpha version of my service. And now I need more human resources to make something significant.
I need people which will work for free yet. And then ...
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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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Equity split 50/50 and past contributions
I've checked other questions but none cover the topic of past contributions. I'm wondering how much weight does time spent before incorporating matter.
Do Founder A earlier contributions have enough ...
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Designer Pay and Equity
We have a physical product, with proprietary IP. My partner and I own 98.25% combined. We issued 1.75% ownership to a designer who wanted equity versus working "freelance". The designer owns his own ...
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Side Projects. Any Success Stories?
Any success stories out there where someone with a full time job managed to start a business in their spare time?
If so, how did you do it? How do you stay motivated? Did you do it alone?
On a ...
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Co-Founder of Company wants to quit
I have a unique problem that I was hoping to get some clarity on.
The Co-Founder of our business (in Canada) wants to end the business and get out. The company has been operating for 3 years and has ...
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What percentage to give UI/UX designer co-founder? [duplicate]
This is a general question for company shares:
My partner and I have an equal stake in our company. We want to bring in a designer since both of us suck at UI. We have one in mind.
Since we own the ...
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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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Should I bring in a co-founder, or hire? [closed]
I'm a developer, who has been working solo on a startup for close to 12 months.
The tech side is coming along well, but I'm acutely lacking in my business accumen, and sales skills.
Here's some key ...
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Cofounder has 10% as a designer
I'm in the process of building a new responsive web/mobile app.
After I quit my job and now full time working on it, I decided it will be a good idea to get a designer.
I wanted her to be committed ...
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CEO didn't really function for a year+, steps down, but want to keep his equity minus a bit. Make sense?
We are 3 partners, working on a mobile / web startup for a year and 4 months.
The CEO didn't put this startup as his #1 priority as he's involved in some other ventures. Apart from a meeting or a ...
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What should get a friend with an idea to smartphone app? [closed]
My start-up team knows someone who has come up with an idea for a new social application.
The potential is hard to forecast, and we can't be sure the effort will pay off.
We consider to implement his ...
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Green card application for founder
I've seen a number of questions / answers on H1-B visas for startup founders. That's not an issue in our case as the H1-B process has been pretty smooth.
The problem we have is that we are now at a ...
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LLC partnership on student visa and then transfer to H1B
I am on F1 visa. I'm done with my masters and am on my OPT. Can I be a partner in an LLC?
What about when I go on H1B.
I'm looking to startup in Texas & California both.
I tried to look for some ...
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Co-Founder Help
I am only 14, so I don't have an immense amount of money to make my idea happen. While I am very technical, I can't write code from scratch. I am very good with selling my ideas and getting people on ...
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Co-Founder for a Small Pet Care Shop
I'm about to open a Pet Shop mainly Dog Food Services and I have a friend who can add wide branding experience. The question is, should I pay for it or co-founder with him?
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How to find a software developer partner for an already profitable project?
A while back I outsourced the development of a .NET application via a freelancing site. I then marketed the software on a small scale to test its commercial viability. Sales were promising, and the ...
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Is my approach to find a cofounder flawed?
I've gone to countless networking events, underground entrepreneur groups, cofounder sites like CoFoundersLab, etc. I'm looking more on the business-dev. end.
I've talked to quite a few 1:1 and met ...
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How much equity for co-founder reducing role for academic program?
I'm a technical co-founder in a pre-funding company in a niche tech segment, working with two non-technical co-founders who have largely overlapping skill sets. I met them at a networking event and ...
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How to fire my Partner
I started a company in August of 2012 signing up 25 customers as a separate part of a corporation I have had since 2010 and brought in a partner in September. The partner did not put in any money but ...
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Single Founder Rate of Success
I've spent quite a lot of time, met quite a lot of people, but still am failing at trying to find a cofounder for my startup.
I've gone to numerous tech-meetups, met 1:1 with quite a few people, ...
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Cofounders allocation of shares upon death
We are two cofounders with unequal shares in our startup (70/30). If something happened to one of us (death), how are the shares handled in a will?
Does the surviving cofounder have to pay current ...
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Director service contracts
The two of us are going to found a company and will work on all necessary tasks without taking pay at least for the first year. In this case, are we going to be Executive Directors? If so, will we ...
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Do I have to sell my shares to my cofounder?
Our company ran low on funds about 4 months ago. We decided it would be best If I took on an advisory role and went to work elsewhere to cover my personal expenses. I have vested shares in a large ...
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When is a business cofounder needed
I am technical founder right now of my own software startup.
Right now, I'm developing the software and am seeking a business cofounder.
I lack domain expertise in the various parts of the business ...
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How do I find a business partner locally?
I have a great idea for a website. I am looking for a partner here in Miami, Fl. What is the best way to find one?
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how to proceed with negotiations with contractor/early employee [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
I am one of three cofounders at an early stage startup. We have been working with an outsourced ...
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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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Deciding between equal and unequal equity splits
I have read the multiple threads about equity splits but I am getting mixed answers. Mainly between this thread which pointed me to this The Founders' Pie Calculator which states it is a rookie, ...
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Startup equity for co-founder
I've been working at a pre-launch startup for the past year (going to launch in the next several weeks). I'm supposed to sign my Stock Purchase Agreement soon, but wanted to run this by to see if I am ...
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A case of co-founder misalignment
tldr; In a company with 3 co-founders, 2(say Adam and Charlie) are pulling in opposite directions, and everything is being decided by committee or things don't move fast enough. Need help exploring ...
