Equity is the value of an ownership interest in a business.
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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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As a stock holder, do I have the right to know how many stocks other investors have?
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 [duplicate]
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 [duplicate]
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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%), ...
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I'm (a co-founder) leaving my startup, how to deal w/ terms?
I helped co-found a company (with 2 others) that isn't in the black yet, I've personally put in at least 30k of my own money and have been in charge of most things. I've recently announced my leave, ...
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Equity for a technical cofounder [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
I'm a developer who has been in contact with a nontechnical cofounder to become the technical ...
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Introducing the idea to friends I'd like to add to the startup - How to and at which conditions?
I'm in the process of trying to establish my first startup.
At the moment I'm working with a friend of mine on developing the idea, and we had already created a prototype for our product on a mobile ...
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How much equity to give up front
Myself and my partner are both sales guys. I had a terrible business idea but after meeting with my future partner over lunch one day he made it better by with a few suggestions that I knew were pure ...
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20% equity for introduction to a major client
I have built a product in the past 4 years for traders that is being used by a few accounts. I haven't done any marketing at all so far, the few clients using it are a few beta testers that have given ...
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Tech cofounder equity [duplicate]
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How to Divide Up Your Company's Equity
I am teaming up with two co-founders to build a web platform. The two partners are business guys while I am the sole techie. I ...
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Proper way to get share in US company for non-US citizen
I was working for quite a time with US company which is S Corporation.
Now we are planning to continue as partners and I should get 10% of the company.
As far as I understand I cant be a shareholder ...
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Dividing equity among cofounders when one person is doing most of the work
I shared my startup idea with two of my best friends and it seemed like a great thing to do at the time. The entire thing basically revolves around a particular kind of content and let's just say that ...
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What happens to equity as the company grows?
What happens when you start a company using Joel's Totally Fair Method to Divide Up The Ownership of Any Startup with two technical founders whose roles change over time?
Imagine the case where the ...
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Equity split and keeping control of an early startup LLC in the long term
The CEO of an early stage LLC plans to keep control of the company in the long term. To achieve this, he plans on keeping at least 51% of the equity. The company has 6 founders in total.
While it is ...
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Non-diluting equity for founders on an early startup LLC
The CEO of a LLC early startup plans to assign non-dilutable equity to the founders. Each founder will take a small amount of equity, leaving a pool for future employees and investors.
IMHO, what ...
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Negotiating Equity with a twist
So here is the deal, I am not the founder but last few years actually have become a very key player. Initially we had agreement to fix issues and once they are done I get out. Now, of course they want ...
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Start up valuation - how much equity
Approached by 2 founders that are very early days of executing an idea.
They have some good .com properties that will be central to brand/idea and had recent offers around $100K, with one outlier ...
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How does one pay back an investor?
I am starting a fashion retail business this year, and I need a total initial investment of $300,000. I don't know about financial issues regarding shares, equity and dividend. I'm currently looking ...
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How do you decide how much to pay yourselves, before investment, in a very small startup?
Say your startup:
is made up of two or three people where the equity has already been split evenly,
has some money coming in on a regular basis from a single project worked on by everyone,
but the ...
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C Corp Investment Documents [closed]
What the appropriate documents needed for one to buy into a (Delaware) C Corp (private)?
What are the documents that the Company needs to issue in order to confirm the investment?
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Undisclosed equity: advantages and disadvantages
The CEO of a LLC early startup plans to distribute equity among the founders. Each founder will not know how much equity the other founder has.
What are the advantages and the disadvantages of doing ...
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Should I give equity (or cash) to a partner who dropped before we got business going
...and we never signed any founders or vesting agreements? I now know not having those agreements is the worst thing ever and won't do that again.
We are parting as friends friends so I feel like I ...
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Equity to a 2hr/day co-founder
I'm a tech founder of a startup in the very early stage. I'm looking to add a business development, sales, and marketing co-founder. However this guy is looking to invest 2 hours per day while i'm ...
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What equity should I claim as a founder CEO?
Some people I know came up with a idea of a startup. They will provide also the seed investment (50k) and contacts for future investment rounds.
I will be in charge of the start up of the company from ...
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Sweat Equity problem
I am soon to launch an interesting network. I have completed product development and currently testing the product. In the course of working on the project, I met an experienced man who loved the ...
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Stock equivalent options if the company is self funded and does not intend to go public
I run a company that’s self funded and does not intend to go public (this might change due to the nature of the business).
I have started to experience scale and traction, which means that I will ...
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Possible drama in a starting startup
I know this is TL;DR material but I'm just trying to sort this out and feel I might need an outsiders view.
I was approached to become the CTO and co-founder of a startup. The founder pitched me the ...
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What does it mean when stocks in a company are “vested monthly”
I was reading the top answer here:
what do you need to pay for the board of advisors in a startup?
The author was saying:
In general, advisors get something between 0.1% - 1% of the company,
...
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Is this equity split unfair?
Ok, so I'm a developer. I was approached the other week by a friend who had an idea for a website that he wanted to make, and he came to me because a) we know each other, and b) I've given him useful ...
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How to split money on a start-up business with 3 Co-Founders!
2 other guys and myself decided to put together a young mens online magazine. We collectively came up with the name, but I came up with the concept of the magazine. 1 guy does the writing and the ...
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Start up Equity pre funding
I joined a start up which had a 2mm valuation (only based on conv. notes language) prefunding/pre-rev/prewebsite with 2 full time employees (one being the founder), 3 founders and some free interns. I ...
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Lead developer with competitive salary. How much equity?
we have been in business for few years,
we have a product (software) that is being refined every day,
we have a small team
we have paying customers.
we are profitable.
Our lead developer, which ...
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I'm a part-time founder working with two full time partners. What is an appropriate equity share?
This is an update to a question I posted a few weeks ago.
Help would be GREATLY appreciated.
I'm a co-founder of a new startup with two other partners. We are just hammering out terms (equity share, ...
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Equity redistribution after team shake up, product pivot
I joined a year old startup as employee #2. There were 3 cofounders and 2 part time employees as well, so 7 people at the peak. I got accustomed to the team, product and business during a long mutual ...
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pure equity compesation
I hired a full time person with equity-only compensation. The higher-than-usual rate reflects that. However the contract was not professionally written as it only mentions the equity part. Can that ...
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How much startup equity should be provided to an early, senior engineer?
pre-funding start-up in tech.
founder had idea and filed patent (pending); developed concept, small cash funding, etc.
engineer came in year later to help shape app; code proof of concept, help with ...
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Where can I find detailed information about a company's stock structure prior to their IPO?
I'm curious to know about the stock structures of a lot of companies. For example Marc Pincus of Zynga has preferred stock, where each of his share's voting power is 70x greater than those that are ...
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Equity, Loans and Allocations
In an LLC, distributions need not be related to ownership shares. However, our operating agreement states that positive distributions (gains) will be based upon ownership share.
Here is my question. ...
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Fair equity split be in this situation?
I have been working on my startup for the last few months, where the idea and market research has been done by me, few months before. I have a working demo I developed with freelancers based on my ...
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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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How to divide equity among 6 founders when you desire to also get VC funding
I am looking to create a company with 6 founders. Reason being...I need them all and they are all genius. Because they are all already highly compensated at great companies, equity will be my only ...
