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Pure Equity Transactions, Stock Dilution, and ABC's Shark Tank
Traditionally during seed capital and early funding rounds VC term sheets often include a number of provisions regulating control, liquidity events, dilution, employee pools etc.
Yet the common ...
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Advise on profit share for freelancing startup company
Three of us want to create a freelancing company and work via most popular freelancing sites nowadays. We've been working like this for 2 years and we need more people to help us.
I see many such ...
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Equity when joining an established business
Given an offer to join an established company, earning at least a couple of million a year in revenue (under 10 employees) and which is a subsidiary to a multi billion dollar parent company; what is a ...
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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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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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How to value a Project Manager versus actual Technical/Engineering talent?
I have relatively little experience with recruiting, determining compensation and hiring for startups since this is my first go at it. My approach is that there isn't a single right answer on valuing ...
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How much equity should I give for contracted labor?
I am the sole founder of a bootstrapped startup (idea conceived by me, revenue model and business plan developed by me, and I filed a provisional process patent for the concept). I have incoporated ...
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When to grant sweat equity to a non-employee/non-founder
My partner and I founded a start-up personal service business. We own A shares (voting) and are working full-time on the business. We have procured investors, who own B shares (non-voting). The ...
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Co-founder leaving startup, how should we set equity?
Here's the scenario my startup is in and I'd appreciate some thoughts on how to solve several issues we have.
We're 3 co-founders (2 biz, 1 dev) and we've been working on an idea for the past ~12 ...
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What questions to ask when interviewing for a startup offering equity
I'm interviewing for a Lead Developer role in a company that is asking me to take a cut in salary in exchange for a share of equity over 3 year period.
I'm not necessarily opposed to the idea, but I ...
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Should you ever give equity to a strategic partner?
I have a product targeted at young, single people who enjoys going out at night to party. Now I'm negotiating partnership with a top nightlife promotional group locally, who can provide us the cream ...
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Taking lesser salary and work in a start-up
I am in the process of negotiating with my former boss that went out and did his own software start-up. Everything has been set-up and the product is there. Currently has stable clients but the ...
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What are the benefits of equity in a start-up? [closed]
What are the benefits and equity in a start-up?
What is cliff period?
Will i own the equity even i leave the start-up?
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Project building a product for a startup — equity or % of revenue?
I am a Rails developer with a job who does projects on the side. I've been asked by a couple of friends to build a product for their startup, nothing too special/creative technology wise. They don't ...
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equity for the founding team [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
Thank you everyone for sharing this!
question: I founded the company 4.5 month ago and invested $X to ...
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Equity splits for new company are threatening to tear it apart before it gets off the ground
hope to get a few outside opinions here.
The cast of the saga:
"M" - the "idea person", has experience, has (or will have) money from property in near future, unemployed at present
"B" - A ...
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Product equity rather than company equity - any examples?
We're all familiar with the traditional shared equity arrangements in a startup; Some contribution = Some % of shares (thus equity) in the company, which may or may not payoff down the road at either ...
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Formula to evaluate the earnings potential when joining a startup
I'm trying to come up with a rough formula to help decide if I should join a startup. I'd like to weigh my current pay vs joining a startup, taking into account opportunity costs and possible final ...
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equity splits without knowing direction
the partner and myself want to essentially do something 50-50, but we plan to give some future people 1% for services, maybe get investors, maybe something else.
So I think 50-50 of all equity ...
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Alternatives to equity for a strategic partner
I want to approach a former colleague to be a strategic partner on a software project. He would be bringing key skills to the table that I frankly can't afford to pay an employee for. I was ...
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Paying App developers in equity?
I am starting a software company. We will start with one service in particular, but will expand from there. My question is, is it reasonable to pay developers in equity alone? Also, seperate question, ...
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'Startup' enterprise software application, question about ownership between investors and developers
Over the past four years, my business partner and I founded a company that is planning on selling B2B software. We have been paying the developers to create the software, thus keeping full ownership. ...
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Thoughts on equity split
I'd appreciate your thoughts on this situation:
I am a developer that has worked on a on 2 products for the past 4 years. Product 1 has been somewhat successful capturing a small niche market, and ...
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What if the startup I work for gets bought out?
I am the technical founder of the startup that I work for. My software, that I architected, runs on a device that has won a Gold award even before the trade association's show.
The startup is ...
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0.5% equity and 2k/month to be the #1 CDO in a startup
I really need your help.
It 's the first time I've been asked to work for a startup.
The company has already been made, founded by 2 partners, and has already received an initial investment, but has ...
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What is a fair equity offer when there is no salary?
A professional colleague/friend of mine is putting together a product that is in demand from Educators and students and has asked me to join in - he has funded the wireframing of the online venture ...
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How can the co-founders equity (economic and control) be protected by being diluted in excess?
How can the co-founders that hold a minority of the shares be protected against:
A dilution of his equity (economic and control) triggered by the shareholders that hold a majority of the shares?
A ...
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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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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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Looking for specific suggestion regarding company shares
I just want to say that I've read a lot of threads regarding this subject, including the most popular one (here), a lot of related threads, lots of Google searches, investopedia, and they've all been ...
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Having less equity than an investor
Suppose a company (C-Corp, Delaware) with 5 co-founders, each having 20% of the shares.
Then an investor wants 30% of the company, which will leave each co-founder diluted to 14%.
Besides control ...
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Is this a fair equity split for a startup? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What would be a fair equity distribution between me and my co-founder?
I started working on my company a year ago and developed the prototype myself, using Protoshare ...
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How much equity should an active investor get in an early stage of a startup?
I'm the only executive, I have 100% of the shares, I have 4 employees.I built the prototype on my own and I'm almost launching.
This person has intense experience in tech but not as an investor. ...
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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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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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What do kickstarters want in return?
I was looking at kickstarter to get some funding for a possible business venture. Kickstarter funding would cover entity filing fees and other costs or licenses and materials.
I have seen some ...
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New business with three partners, one has the credit, one has the time, one has the product
We are looking to start up a business and are in a different situation then I have been in before. I will be looking at financing the money that starts the business.
I have one partner that will be ...
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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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Advice on startup offer, am I reading this right?
I recently met with a local start-up and was presented an offer. I spent the last few days reading on this board looking for insight into the start-up financing world. The start-up is technology based ...
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I need advice - Lead developer slap in the face
I have been working with a startup for 6 months. It is an advertising company for which there is a very heavy technology portion (I would say 50% of the company is based off of a mobile front-end, and ...
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Share Distribution
As a stock holder, do I have the right to know how many stocks other investors have? The company is not publicly traded yet, but I am having difficulty trusting that I have received my fair "share" ...
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Business proposal: good or bad?
The situation is this. I am a software developer that, in his free time, has developed a software library for a specific purpose. I use it to write custom applications that I sell or sell directly the ...
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First equity what questions should I ask and how?
Last month I was offered for an equity on a startup venture. It's an online store focus on selling customized toys. Their business models looks good and promising. But I just have few doubts and ...
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Startup Equity Distribution / Investor Equity
Thanks for taking time to read my post and sorry for the loaded questions -- please read patiently to help me. Here is the scenario:
Founder has the startup idea vetted 3.5 years ago -- but never ...
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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 do we split the equity when one partner simply provides the idea while the other partner builds the software [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
A friend of mine came to me (I'm a software developer) with a software project idea that he had and ...
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What to do with equity when leaving a startup you co-founded?
I have already read many of the posts here about this topic and I got very good insights already but I was hoping to get some tailored advice for my situation.
I have been working two years in a ...
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Startup - C - Corp structure - How do we offer equity for seed investments?
We have a startup with some interested investors - (friends, family, etc). We have a C - Corp structure. We want to take in some of these investments - problem is that we have spoken to 2 lawyers ...
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When Co-founder quits, what happens to the vested equity?
I'm a co-founder of a startup, and I've been working on it for almost 3 years. The vesting term is 1-year cliff and 1/48 per month. So now I have vested 15%, and 5% not yet vested.
I need to quit the ...
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Divide equity among founders, investors and advisors [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
Here is how our startup is dividing equity among Founders and Investors: 2 Founders (43% and 25%), ...
