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How to Divide Up Your Company's Equity
We get a lot of questions about dividing equity and for good reason. Dividing up your startup's equity creates a lot of heart burn for all of us. It's a tremendously stressful affair if you have never ...
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Are co-founders employees? Do they need to be paid minimum wage?
If there is a co-founder with 20% equity in the company but no salary, what is his status in the company? Should he be considered an employee? What is the difference between a cofounder and an ...
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Should we award equity based on specific performance metrics?
My team and I are nearing the launch of our initial product this August. We are wanting to develop a metrics-based system that will be implemented upon product launch that will determine founder's ...
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Do single-founder companies ever get funded?
Most companies I see funded usually have two or more founders. Do investors, angels or VCs, look down on one-man-companies? Are there many that get funded?
Or is it just that it's rare to have one ...
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Investor wants 51% shares of our company
We are five engineering students, going to start up a company.
As there are many competitor companies in the market, we were looking for an investor to start very big.
Fortunately, we found an ...
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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 a background, I knew ...
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How is ownership of equity re-distributed at each stage of growth?
I've been researching for over a year now as an aspiring entrepreneur, but I am still fuzzy on how equity gets distributed at every stage of company growth.
Is a set amount of "shares" created upon ...
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Stock Splits for founders
I know this has been addressed. However, each set-up is different and I want to proved the particulars on this one to get some thoughts.
I need some help establishing an equitable Cap. Table. My ...
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20% equity and CTO. (Story and details). Is this fair?
This is a long exposition.
Please bear with me, I think that I need to provide as much specifics as possible, while keeping it as short as possible. Thanks for reading, any feedback is much ...
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How to estimate value of non monetary and non working hours contributions?
Suppose a startup has 5 founders with the next contributions...
1: X hours of work in the startup.
2: A patent (the design of a product never produced).
3: $50K of funding.
4: Marketing skills.
5: ...
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If I launch a new division within my employer's company, should it be treated as a separate startup?
I've been working for my current employer for the past several years as CTO. I recently pitched them on starting a separate division that is more entrepreneurial and experimental to spin out ...
