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How much equity + salary should a Technical CoFounder get?
I am unable to decide how much should I get by reading the meta thread about equity hence I am asking it here.
I got offer as a technical partner in one web based start-up from two business guys with ...
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Buy out scenario and bringing on an equity investor
A company has $180,000 invested into it. In order to buy out a partner I need $88,000. My current manager wants to invest in the company and I am encouraging it in order to keep a long-term employee ...
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how to proceed with negotiations with contractor/early employee [duplicate]
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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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SaaS founders incentives: Business and Technology
We are two 50/50 founders of an enterprise SaaS company. both cofounders are tech people with a good grasp of business knowledge.
Mainly, one of our cofounders brought most of our clients and handled ...
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equity explained for a developer
I've seen job listings for developers that offer salary + equity. Can someone please explain equity with an example or two? What is the typically amount of equity for a developer? Is there any ...
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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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Joining a startup within its first year - salary/equity expectations?
I've recently been headhunted by a startup a year old which I am very interested in leaving my current position in a large established business in the same industry for.
There are a number of people ...
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Compensation in a well-funded pre-series A startup in Silicon Valley
I have had a favorable (and rigorous) interview process at a pre-series A startup (12 months old) that has a solid product, a very good team and excellent market traction. They have raised around ...
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Minimum wage laws and startups?
As a technical person, you see this a lot:
"I've got this great idea to be the next $BIG_SITE. I need you to build a site for me - it should only take 3 months or so. Meanwhile, you can crash on my ...
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salary and stock options in a startup for lead developer - advice needed
I got an offer from my friend in a startup company with $30K/year (take into account it's not in a "hot" spot like Silicon Valley or NY, but yeah, it's not high in any standards, and the job's in a ...
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Deciding equity and profit sharing when co founder takes salary and works full time
Having read so much on how equity has to be split, i am still confused and am unable to come to any conclusion. I Would highly appreciate if you could fill in the gap as its making life difficult.
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Compensation for early startup employee - what is the right balance?
If my company is profitable and able to pay early startup employee at the market salary (compare to MSFT, Google, Apple etc) , should I still need to pay for significant amount of option to them?
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Best deferred salary equation?
I'm the co-founder of a bootstrapping startup, and I have incentive to prefer short-term compensation, like deferred salary, instead of equity. Would it be reasonable to apply a multiplier to the ...
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Employee Payment - From an Investor's Prospective
In the development stage of launching a start up. I am initially outsourcing the development as I am not located in a place where there is an abundance of programmers. The dev timeline is 6 weeks. ...
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Equity for strategic hires?
We're a small (but growing) consulting firm with software to be developed as a side stream (yes, I know this is an original story :)). 3 partners, equal equity.
We've worked with a few people in the ...
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STARTUP: partnership or hire?
Ok I invested in my business and built the software, now got to run it!
If I hire my friend, to do all this business, and I do all things technical.
How should I pay him?
1) salary
2) with ...
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Joining a start up - Need advise
I am planning to join a start up (LLC) in a management role. They are in the midst of raising series A, the have agreed to pay me an hourly salary with a cap on the hours, if I go over the hours, they ...
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Equity for unfunded, pre-launch startup as Business Development lead?
I left my job to join an early stage startup at its absolute infancy. I came on board immediately in a biz dev role and am one of only two full-time employees. The other is the actual CEO, the 3rd ...
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Is it typical to trade salary for equity when joining a startup?
Suppose I got an offer from a startup that currently has funding to start hiring employees. Suppose they are offering a $100K total compensation package, such that I can choose to take a reduced ...
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Looking to get involved with a startup, but no idea on what kind of salary/equity I should expect
I'm considering joining a startup that has raised a few million in Series A funding and I'd be the second developer joining the team. I've been out of college for 4 years and am looking for a senior ...
