Co-Founder Questions

When giving a percentage in equity to an investor, is the % taken equally from the existing members of a corporation (partners/shareholders)? I'm asking this question, as I currently have the...

Co-Founder Investors Partnerships

asked Aug 28 '13 at 07:35

Daniel Johnson
11 points

In the last 6 months I was working on stop motion app for Android. Now the app gets around 100 download per day in Google Play (first month) and around 50,000 picture was taken so far, and I'm...

Co-Founder Design Shares

asked Aug 29 '13 at 04:20

Jimmy
111 points

A & B have started a company a few months back. Both of them have built the product together and are equally enthusiastic about its success. However, Mr. A has been involved full time (in the...

Co-Founder Equity Founders Agreement Fulltime

asked Sep 1 '13 at 03:58

Andysax
6 points

Background: I am the CTO, co-founder and sole inventor of a very promising technology company (<25 people) and are sitting on a multi-billion $ opportunity, seriously!) . I now have a minority...

Co-Founder Intellectual Property Exit

asked Aug 16 '13 at 04:32

Gupshup
52 points

I am a cofounder with shares that have voting rights. We have 3 founders - One with majority shares (a little more than the other two combined). I come from tech background while other 2 founders...

Board Co-Founder Equity Compensation

asked Aug 19 '13 at 05:48

Santu
156 points

I have been trying to start my own tech startup for a year and half. During this time i built significant IP and invested my time and effort. I have a database of users and mailing list. I have...

Co-Founder Equity Vesting

asked Aug 19 '13 at 13:48

Kris
1 point

We are in a bit of a rough situation here. We have a team of 8 that seems to be committed to what we are doing. Most of them have full time jobs. Our start-up is more like a part-time or side thing...

Co-Founder Motivation Management Side Projects

asked Aug 6 '13 at 16:47

Noah
138 points

A partner and I are working on a web-based service and have reached the prototype phase - I've completed a working prototype of the website and we are now in the process of refining what we have....

Getting Started Co-Founder

asked Aug 7 '13 at 02:02

Shereth
11 points

I am looking for a technical co-founder to join myself and the other founder in the development of some software for a start-up with with a great market. The problem is I'm 16. We both have some...

Software Co-Founder Development

asked Jul 6 '13 at 00:09

Jason
41 points

I have been working on my internet startup and need a tech co-founder to help me get the project actually going. I am finding it extremely hard to find a co-founder with programming...

Co-Founder Technical Internet College

asked Jul 7 '13 at 05:49

Dillon Carter
14 points

I am currently involved in a Canadian tech startup, and as I am about to enter equity negotiations, I would like to clarify the ownership and copyright of the code base, to better understand the...

Co-Founder Technology Equity Canada Copyright

asked Jul 8 '13 at 08:55

Chris
6 points

My dad has a business idea. Being much older than me, and having previously worked in software companies for decades, my dad is more experienced in business than I am - although he has never ran or...

Getting Started Co-Founder

asked Jul 8 '13 at 16:56

Kevin
31 points

A potential partner and I discussed one of my ideas. The idea is mine and at the time of discussion, it was not clear that we would be partners. I was essentially discussing ideas with an industry...

Co-Founder Ideas Equity Partnerships

asked Jul 15 '13 at 11:54

Moonstar2001
186 points

I had a part-time co-founder but he is leaving. How can he hand back equity? I'm based in the UK and I've heard of a form called J10, but once this is done how do we change the information...

Co-Founder Equity UK

asked Jul 16 '13 at 09:58

Olive
106 points

I am a professional developer, and I work on the side on my own projects. I incorporated a company about a year ago, and my last side-project generates about $400 a month. I have now started...

Co-Founder Equity Part Time

asked Jul 16 '13 at 22:38

Antipasti
3 points

I am founding a startup and trying to determine the correct equity split to expect. The situation is that at my former company (Company A), I developed some software, which is currently owned by...

Co-Founder Equity Intellectual Property

asked Jul 17 '13 at 00:16

Randigoo
61 points

founder on a team of 4. 3 of us agree that one co-founder who has been with the company since the beginning (~9 months) needs to leave. We’re all on a stock vesting agreement, and none of our...

Co-Founder Legal

asked Jul 17 '13 at 03:56

User27015
1 point

My co-founder and I have been working on my idea for the past 18 months. Throughout, despite statements of their commitment, I have always done the vast majority of the work. We have had serious...

Co-Founder Founder Equity

asked Jun 4 '13 at 07:34

User26519
6 points

My biz partner and I split up (not amicably) a couple of months ago, and he left my bootstrapped startup business. When he left, his total equity in the company was vested up to 20%. I own the...

Co-Founder Equity Legal Investment Loan

asked Jun 5 '13 at 07:58

John B.
6 points

I took part alone in a 4 months acceleration program for startups, during which I worked on the idea, I did market and customer research and all the usual things needed before start a new company....

Getting Started Co-Founder Equity Founders Agreement

asked Jun 10 '13 at 06:51

Andrea
26 points