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How to reward early employees?

In many startups there are some #1 or #2 employees who helped the whole business all the way. I've got couple guys like that, I'd love to give them more than the salary (even thou …
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How to best resolve current problems in my multiple-founder startup

I've been voraciously reading about startups for the last week, this site included. Unfortunately, I've come to the conclusion that the equity structure of our startup needs to ch …
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What’s a reasonable amount of equity to retain when you’re the key founder?

I'm working with two other partners to get a SaaS startup off the ground. I worked on this thing slowly, mostly on my own, for about two years before approaching my partners. As …
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How should founders treat their paid-in cash in a self-funded startup?

In a founder-funded company, how should the founders treat the cash that they contribute to the company? Should it be convertible debt? Equity (but the founders already have all th …
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I’m declining investment offers. Am I doing it wrong?

I'm about to launch my web based business, and several friends/relatives offered to invest small amounts of money(5-10k) for a few percentages (1-5%) of my company. It's a side bus …
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How to resolve conflicts on a 50/50 startup ?

Hi, We are going to found an startup with equally shares. One as the product/tech partner being the other the marketing/sales partner. We are going to found on a 50% equal shares …
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What would be a fair equity distribution between me and my co-founder ?

Me (software developer) and my co-founder (UI designer) are looking forward to build a SaaS startup. I would usually lean towards a 50/50 distribution, but in this particular scen …
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Should money prevent me from starting a company

I am a 40 year old software developer in the finance industry. Since my 20's my I have a pattern of working for a few years to build up the bank account, and the pursuing some entr …
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Sample milestones for co-founder value-contributed equity distribution

Hi all, Question: What are some sample milestones/goals to set for co-founders to allow them to gain equity for contributing value to the company, like a vesting-based equity p …
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Startup - 1 or 2% equity is good deal? Please advise.

Two experienced guy with good business experience and good valley connections are looking for technical guy who can help them to start their startup. So I am the only technical gu …
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Giving Equity to a Sr. Employee

I'm running a company from the last 10 years. Now I have hired a senior person to head the finance of the company as my knowledge in the finance is nil.He has asked for 6 % equity …
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Can non-dilutable stock (or equivalent) be issued?

Hi all, I think I understand stock dilution (and I know in quite some cases it's not bad to get diluted) but I was wondering (it's mostly curiosity but I still think it's an inter …
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Minority Partner

I've decided to take on a minority partner for my startup. This individual will have a 25% stake in the business and I will retain 75% as the founder. My partner will not be putt …
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Equity distribution amongst startup co-founders

Hi, I read some articles about Startup Equity Distribution: Here is one of them: http://blog.weatherby.net/2008/10/startup-equity-distribution.html They give good insight, but sti …
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How is ownership of equity re-distributed at each stage of growth?

First time poster here, and kudos to Dharmesh for setting up this great QA site. Now Ive been researching for over a year now as an aspiring entrepreneur, but I am still fuzzy on …

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