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Left my startup pre-launch. What percent equity is fair?

6 months ago I quit my job to start a startup with two other people. I'm the business guy. I worked full-time on the project from day No. 1, and made substantial contributions to branding, customer ...
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0answers
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Setting a stock vesting schedule retroactively

So here's the the quick summary: Three co-founders with shares equally divided. Started working on it about a year ago, got incorporated about 4 months ago. Now one of the co-founders wants to leave. ...
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3answers
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How do I add a new business partner?

We are a tech consulting company and our current group consists of four equity partners. We are interested in adding a new "business" partner, as our current partners are all technical, but we know ...
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0answers
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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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139 views

Vesting for large group of part-time cofounders

I am involved with a startup that has a very unique structure. We started as friends, all working in our spare time, never intending for it to become a business. Eventually, it started catching on and ...
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4answers
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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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Vesting Schedule for an initial “100% CTO”

Classic case startup, 1 biz-dev + 1 techie. The 1 techie gets to be the lone warrior to build the entire contraption. The gut rule seems 50-50, but there are complications with that. What's a better ...