Co-Founder Questions

I am creating a medical device startup and I have some issues determining how to split up the various roles and responsibilities of founders, among other problems. My brother, a friend/partner, and...

Co-Founder Equity Business Corporate Structure

asked Apr 20 '11 at 06:32

Jry223
11 points

I am in conversations with a startup interested in my project. I have not set up the company yet, thus we both wish to collaborate, and apply for public funds to develop my prototype/MVP. The idea...

Co-Founder Equity Intellectual Property Ownership Transfer

asked Jul 2 '19 at 19:08

MMA
1 point

Related to this question, and applying both ways - finding a person is one thing, but for a technical founder trying to assess a non-technical founder and vice versa to see if they're a good fit is...

Co-Founder Founder

asked Oct 10 '09 at 12:07

Cade Roux
196 points

I started my company from scratch and found a technical co-founder to build my product. So I managed to hustle in order to find this guy, who was working in a company. He started working for me...

Co-Founder Equity Founders

asked Aug 30 '14 at 10:43

User34129
1 point

If there was no paperwork done between the co-founders and one of them decides to leave all of a sudden, can the remaining co-founder still continue building that business?Could the founder who...

Co-Founder Contract Equity Legal

asked Jun 13 '14 at 16:56

Omar Gonzalez
16 points

Could you start a company with a co-founder, and have generic agreements in place, all without registering a corporation?We're bootstrapping our first startup and don't want to spend both money and...

Co-Founder Legal Agreements Corporation Startups

asked Jun 18 '14 at 20:12

Marion Woodward
9 points

Apart from a heart to heart talk, what else could one do to keep motivating their co-founders to be most productive and not lose interest in the vision?

Co-Founder Motivation Ideas Vision

asked Jul 2 '14 at 00:12

Daniel Lynch
12 points

I am an experienced computer developer, I was enjoying making computer programs since I was just 10, back to 1994. And since 2001, I started to create computer software as my part time and later...

Funding Co-Founder Venture Capital Investors Fundraising

asked Aug 18 '14 at 10:45

Shahab
6 points

I have been working with three co-founders for about a year. Two are technical, including me, and the other is business. We have the equity split up on paper and have determined the exact price of...

Co-Founder Startups

asked Oct 22 '14 at 06:42

User34175
16 points

So me and 2 other cofounders spent a year building a product together, however it got no traction. We have a ery expensive buyout price however, but I don't think it makes sense to buy them out. So...

Co-Founder Equity Failure Startups

asked Oct 22 '14 at 21:10

User34175
16 points

Long story short, approached a friend who is already a co founder of another technology start up that has investment with an idea. He liked the idea. It was my idea, and we started working on...

Co-Founder Contract Equity Dispute

asked Dec 4 '14 at 03:46

User34199
46 points

I just do not know that much about the other person other then he has good tech skills and can take care of a lot of the paper work stuff, that lets me design and build the business. Which is what...

Co-Founder Equity Ownership

asked Jun 30 '15 at 04:59

Paul Gilchrist
1 point

I'm willing to give 20% of my startup to my partner who has an MBA and good experience. His main responsibility will be sales, marketing and deal making. I'm the developer. I'm working full-time...

Co-Founder Equity

asked Nov 5 '09 at 08:13

Boolean
388 points

We are a team of 2 and we hit an idea about a social media startup some time back. Everything said and done we know that we don't have a tech cofounder. while we look for one we don't want to...

Co-Founder Strategy NDA Terms And Conditions

asked Jun 30 '11 at 05:26

Vishal
73 points

The manager of a newly established hedge fund has offered me to join the company for 20% of the company + minimal salary. The fund is not profitable yet, and it would take a year, or two, before it...

Co-Founder Equity Finance

asked Jun 3 '14 at 03:40

User33947
11 points

I'm going through a tough position in my startup where we have to let go of one of our co-founders. It's due to several reasons and the other two co-founders (myself included) have decided that...

Co-Founder Founders Startups

asked Apr 30 '14 at 17:41

Elizabeth Hinton
2 points

What are the top reasons to have co-founders that puts solo founders at a serious disadvantage?Should someone who already has an idea and close to finishing a basic prototype spend time looking for...

Co-Founder Solo Entrepreneur Founders

asked Apr 7 '14 at 15:40

Wayne Waring
14 points

A little background. I built an app for a friend's small business, it was his idea. I went to him when it was finished and told him it's a good idea and I'd like to turn it into a product I could...

Getting Started Co-Founder Equity Partnerships

asked Apr 3 '14 at 15:19

Ryan Arneson
16 points

What type of team composition (# of people, skill sets) would be most ideal? Both in terms of skills needed to execute and to raise money.

Co-Founder Team

asked Mar 16 '14 at 01:00

Nathanial Norman
10 points

Lets say you're working on a startup with someone for a couple of months and they start to lose interest and aren't pulling their weight. And it has come to a point where just talking it out isn't...

Co-Founder Legal Founders Startups

asked Mar 13 '14 at 19:03

Anne Vickers
15 points