Equity is the value of an ownership interest in a business.
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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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Share ownership in software spinoff
I have been employed at a research consulting company for several years. During the course of running research projects, I have developed software that I use internally to run some of my projects. ...
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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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How much equity should these founders have? [duplicate]
Me and my 3 partners are in the early stages of a gaming start up company. We are now looking to split the initial equity in the company because we are not all on equal terms.
Person#1 is an ...
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How much Equity should I get? [duplicate]
Well some think its a duplicate to another question but i think its different cuz all four of us in the team are not the coders, developers or programmers & also my question is different cuz the ...
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Asked to be CEO — what should I ask for?
I have been appoached by a private equity firm that has an idea -- a good one -- and $5M. They've asked me to be CEO and make it happen. They requested I make the opening bid for compensation and ...
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Thoughts on offering Software development in return for Equity for a tech startup
I have been developing some software for an online venture in return for significant equity. I am working with another founder who is developing the business. The current thinking is to value our ...
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Ownership without investment. Help
I started work at a company a few months back. I was brought in to head up a new division in the company. That division is separating as it's own LLC. I won't be investing any money into the new ...
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How much equity should I give our first investor/legal advisor?
I'm currently starting up a mobile social networking application with zero funding. The app is currently in the mvp stage with a very thorough business plan, and my business partner and I are ...
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Review offer for being employee #1
I've just been offered a developer job at a startup in the current situation.
- Pre-Series A.
- Current seed funding gives them a valuation of $5 mil.
- 4 founders, no employees, 1 founder is a ...
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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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Splitting equity between founders
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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Do I need to pay tax on shares earned?
I am working on a project in my spare time with a friend. The project has the potential to make money in the future.
We want to run the project democratically and non-hierarchically. We have decided ...
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Advice on startup offer I have received
I have received a offer from 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 team is three ...
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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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How to protect myself from uncommitted co-founders
Two of us came together to work on an idea for a web startup. We end up killing the initial product and a third person joined. A new product is built and launched.
It happens that I'm the technical ...
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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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developer (almost co-founder?) getting 5% share
I'm in a same situtation, maybe worse as this guy:
Developer, offered share in small startup company in return for large rate reduction - advice needed
Two friends had an idea, they were kinda ...
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I am the only paid developer in a startup, am I getting enough equity?
I am currently apart of a very small startup. I love the idea and believe that it could be very big one day. I was hired by a guy with the idea, but the idea was still very basic, and 1 dimensional. ...
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Equity split for non day-to-day founder
I wish that my equity situation for my new company were easy; unfortunately it's not - so I'd love feedback and thoughts.
I met with a well connected business person (we'll call him Karl), and he had ...
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Are employee options now a joke?
Having been involved in startups that failed, startups that turned into profitable but un-traded companies and startups that straight-out conned employees out of their share - I tend to regard them as ...
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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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Initial board meeting for single person c-corp
Is it unnecessary to have a board meeting (meeting minutes) when it's just a single person in the newly formed company (Delaware c-corp)?
Should you issue yourself shares immediately upon ...
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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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Non compete agreement for a founder in a startup
Our startup currently has 5 founders, we're still in the process of seeking seed funding but we have all been working for sweat equity for the past 12 months, some founders have worked longer for ...
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Profitable existing business with Single owner - offering me Partnership & Equity to help it grow - My negotiation should be?
The owner has an online business which brings in a high $xx,xxx in profits (nearing 6 figures) with minimal costs (hosting, etc). Owner is looking to start fresh with an LLC setup and a partnership ...
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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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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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Equity for First paid Tech-employee in a not-profitable financed Startup
I'm trying to be as specific as possible here:
We are a Startup 5 months on the go with three co-founders. Since none of us can truly code we need to employ our first Web-developer and we have found ...
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Seek advices for equity distribution about our situation [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
We are still in the early stage of a company doing seo syndication tool and I would like your ...
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Inactive co-founder holds 33% but refuses to dilute
We are 3 founders in the business. The two are working as close to full-time as we can given we dont receive a salary, we each hold 44% and 23% which leaves the last partner with 33%. He has been very ...
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Restricted Stock Units (RSU) in a job offer
I've seen a few job offers where in addition to the salary the company offers X,000 Restricted Stock Units (RSU). I'm still trying to understand owning equity as one of the early employees for a ...
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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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Technical Co-Founder Contract
There are a couple startups I'm thinking about joining. They are in very early stages (seed round or incubation). I am interested in the position of technical co-founder.
They've all asked that we ...
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How do we allocate equity to two founding partners and an investor? [duplicate]
I have been working on a very comprehensive business plan for a year. We are all ready to go, but due to the large scale of capital required (R500k) we looked for an investor for shares as well as ...
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What will be the equity for a coder who is a cofounder in a startup vs noncoder cofounder? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
i am a coder (Web Developer) and was contacted by someone who is not a coder. He had an idea which is ...
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How much equity should I get for developing a site where the idea isnt mine
A few months ago, I was asked to join a startup for $85k/year. All the company really had was a pretty big angel investor and one guy with the idea (wealthy father and son with the idea). Before ...
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Toughest Exercise: Equity Split [duplicate]
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Is performance based equity vesting possible?
Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
The venture was started by "A" and "B".
"A" worked ...
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What happens to the unused portion in an option pool at the point of an exit/acquisition?
Some details regarding my company:
I started off as a single-founder bootstrapped company (100%-owned).
Later I brought in two co-founders at 20% equity each.
So equity split was:
Myself - 60%
...
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Investor perspective on non-dilutive equity? [duplicate]
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Is it unattractive to investors if I have a 51% Anti-Dilution Provision?
What is the investor perspective on non-dilutive equity? I am in a situation where the Founder ...
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Joining a startup [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
Apologies for the lack of brevity, but I wanted to give you a full picture of the situation. ...
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Should I give an investor equity for a short term investment?
We are not so much a start up company; been doing business for over 7 years and started off with an investor which was considered a loan with interest. Now we are up to receive anywhere from ...
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Can one who lives in a 3rdWC target an investing round from a VC (US)? [closed]
Can one who lives in a third world country target an investing round from a VC in US? With the likes of
Ycombinator etc?
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Equal partner is making demands that go back on our initial agreement in writing
I'll try to outline this quickly.
Two equal, 50/50, partners - one is building/creating the product, running all operations, etc…the other is footing the bills and will be doing the sales.
At the ...
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How to validate equity offer in a pre-IPO company
I have a job offer from a pre-IPO company. They announced that they will go public in a year or two and their current valuation based on last round of funding is about $300M. They offered me to own ...
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File Income Tax on Founder's Stock
Do I need to file an income tax return (as I just co-founded a company and filed the 83(b) election on the stocks I was issued). I do not have any other monetary income. I do not plan of managing this ...
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How many percentage of shares ownership/equity for a CTO + co founder in startup software company if I'm not a software guy but do have the idea? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
If I don't have skill to anything related to make a software (UML design,code,program,etc), but I do ...
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Change in equity split when founder is dying?
I'm currently involved in a software start up with two other people.
Abe started the company a couple years ago. He outsourced development for $100k. He's worked a lot of hours, but on a part time ...
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Technical Cofounder - How much equity do I ask for? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
So, the situation is this:
Last year I was working freelance, and I was commissioned to build a web ...
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How to handle partners asking to renegotiate old partnership agreements
In The beginning
Around one year ago we build a software company, we needed to quit our jobs, get financing, a product, legal work, accounting work, clients and partnerships with providers.
we ...
