Co-Founder Questions

We are a team of two engineers creating our first SaaS startup. Should we spend time finding someone to better guide the ship from the business end? We haven't raised any money yet but looking...

Funding Co-Founder Business

asked Feb 26 '14 at 00:46

Leeann Rodriquez
35 points

I along with 3 other people created a concept for an innovative Ecommerce platform as part of a 5 week startup pre-incubator. We had a great run and on demo day we won the audience and panel of...

Co-Founder Equity Legal Intellectual Property

asked Aug 20 '11 at 04:10

Adjoa Opoku
106 points

My co-founder and I have been working on a bunch of different apps for Android that just aren't going anywhere.While we both hold full time jobs and do this on the side, how do I break it to him...

Co-Founder Apps Failure

asked Mar 3 '14 at 22:36

Susan Wagner
60 points

I'm a developer, who has been working solo on a startup for close to 12 months. The tech side is coming along well, but I'm acutely lacking in my business accumen, and sales skills. Here's some...

Co-Founder Hiring

asked Mar 20 '13 at 11:53

Marty Pitt
171 points

I need advice and experienced views on establishing a proper original founder equity picture in a project. Here are the details: Founder A - Coder / Co-Product Designer / Co-Original Idea...

Co-Founder Equity Startup

asked Feb 25 '14 at 18:49

Dan Newman
21 points

A year into a startup, your product is built and you have some traction. You see signs of growing discontent in your co-founder so you confront him to see what's up. And then he drops an issue I...

Co-Founder Equity Distribution

asked Feb 21 '14 at 05:02

Jared B.
16 points

I'm a single founder working on a mobile app and looking to either get a co-founder or just out right hire someone as the first employee (I have some savings that I can use to pay a few months...

Co-Founder Employees

asked Feb 14 '14 at 14:01

Mario Freytag
1 point

What is a reasonable equity split where two people have been working separately on a similar tech idea and are now looking to join forces. These individuals are friends. Despite both working...

Co-Founder Equity

asked Jul 27 '13 at 06:41

Hopeful
16 points

Working on my first startup, I'm fortunate enough to have a wide set of "do-it-myself" skills, ranging from technical to industry specific. I haven't been looking for a partner, quite simply,...

Co-Founder

asked Oct 16 '09 at 00:36

Ez Yz
473 points

As a follow-on to my last question What is the ideal mix of founders for a SaaS startup? it seems that a Marketeer is important to a SaaS startup. I think it's fairly easy to find and evaluate...

Marketing Co-Founder Founder Saas

asked Jan 5 '10 at 23:46

Denis Hennessy
1,363 points

If I, by myself have programmed a website with a lot of contents, I want to start a c-corp to run this website. I will own majority of the shares but there will also be a marketing person and a...

Co-Founder Incorporation Intellectual Property

asked Dec 4 '13 at 07:09

User26315
6 points

I am working on a hardware-software combo B2B startup in Seattle. We've only been around for 2 weeks on a part-time basis. We are two somewhat experienced software/web devs. Together we secured a...

Sales Co-Founder Business Team

asked Dec 4 '13 at 14:45

User2990504
21 points

I recently had the thought that instead of trying to find a cofounder or two, and promising them inexact amounts of equity (we never hear of 23.61% cofounder equity), I could instead just leverage...

Co-Founder Non Technical

asked Dec 6 '13 at 11:09

User258613
13 points

I'm looking for a startup opportunity in London. I was given an offer to be a startup cofounder. B2B app for finance market. The team will be me an a business guy. He is giving all the money for...

Co-Founder Equity Salary

asked Nov 16 '13 at 03:00

Lukas
110 points

I would like to know if a CEO can work from home. The question is weird, but I would just like to know the answer. When there were company board meetings, he needs to attend and that is OK. He...

Co-Founder Incorporation CEO

asked Nov 21 '13 at 01:22

Java Technical
152 points

I’m a co-founder of a start up in US. An Israeli company is invested in our business. Among other 2 co-founders one is a US citizen and the other is from Israel who is having a US visa. So which...

Co-Founder Visa

asked Nov 2 '13 at 02:31

Jibin George
6 points

Let's say I have a company where I am the founder and also have 2 employees - E1 and E2. Let's say there are 1000 authorized shares, but only 800 of them are issued. 600 of those shares are...

Co-Founder Founder Incorporation Stock Options Shares

asked Oct 8 '13 at 04:45

Salmon
970 points

I am a tech person and have been longing to create a startup but don't have enough skills in making business plans. Do you think is it a good idea to find a co-founder? Someone with orientation to...

Getting Started Co-Founder

asked Sep 10 '13 at 09:17

Abel Melquiades Callejo
47 points

I joined an acquaintance-friend about a year ago as a co-founder on an idea he was working on. The guy I joined is someone I wasn’t super close to, but have been friendly with for quite some time....

Co-Founder Founders

asked Sep 24 '13 at 00:09

Cofounder2
6 points

A friend of mine in India is a cofounder of a company in the US that has just raised 100k$ in seed money from an accelerator similar to YCombinator(very well respected), but does not have an H1-B....

Co-Founder Startupvisa

asked Aug 26 '13 at 23:59

Slartibartfast
106 points