Co-Founder Questions

This is a general question for company shares: My partner and I have an equal stake in our company. We want to bring in a designer since both of us suck at UI. We have one in mind. Since we own...

Co-Founder Equity Intellectual Property Partnerships Design

asked Jan 30 '13 at 08:53

Joe
1 point

We are two cofounders with unequal shares in our startup (70/30). If something happened to one of us (death), how are the shares handled in a will? Does the surviving cofounder have to pay...

Co-Founder Shares

asked Jan 30 '13 at 10:42

Jez
6 points

I've spent quite a lot of time, met quite a lot of people, but still am failing at trying to find a cofounder for my startup. I've gone to numerous tech-meetups, met 1:1 with quite a few people,...

Co-Founder Recruiting Founders Problem

asked Feb 8 '13 at 00:41

Code Talk
253 points

Our company ran low on funds about 4 months ago. We decided it would be best If I took on an advisory role and went to work elsewhere to cover my personal expenses. I have vested shares in a large...

Co-Founder Equity Legal Shares

asked Jan 17 '13 at 15:30

User23581
16 points

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 developer...

Co-Founder Equity Legal Salary Vesting

asked Jan 21 '13 at 09:55

B B
11 points

I am technical founder right now of my own software startup. Right now, I'm developing the software and am seeking a business cofounder. I lack domain expertise in the various parts of the...

Getting Started Sales Co-Founder Business Partnerships

asked Jan 22 '13 at 06:30

Code Talk
253 points

We have a physical product, with proprietary IP. My partner and I own 98.25% combined. We issued 1.75% ownership to a designer who wanted equity versus working "freelance". The designer owns his...

Co-Founder Equity Pay

asked Jan 4 '13 at 10:47

User22379
6 points

I've been working at a pre-launch startup for the past year (going to launch in the next several weeks). I'm supposed to sign my Stock Purchase Agreement soon, but wanted to run this by to see if I...

Software Co-Founder Equity Legal

asked Jan 10 '13 at 07:03

Rabid Zombie
113 points

I contacted a lot of investors and accelerators. I found most of them don`t care about the product itself too much, but strongly requiring start-up should have a co-founder. Why? Perhaps some of...

Getting Started Co-Founder Investors

asked Dec 15 '12 at 09:26

Anlai
375 points

My boyfriend and i started an export company 2 years ago. I own 50% of the company. He holds a position as a President/CEO. We do not have a lot of assets but we have quite a few of liabilities...

Co-Founder

asked Dec 21 '12 at 01:26

Cynthia M Karp
26 points

tldr; In a company with 3 co-founders, 2(say Adam and Charlie) are pulling in opposite directions, and everything is being decided by committee or things don't move fast enough. Need help exploring...

Co-Founder Entrepreneurs

asked Dec 25 '12 at 20:12

Founder X
21 points

Guy is late coming founder, the company not yet incorporated. I designed the product (several biomed multisensor devices) and taken it from concept to a mature prototype ready for manufacturing (1...

Co-Founder Equity

asked Dec 26 '12 at 00:03

User22242
46 points

Background: My friend and I talked about building an application, saying this is the idea, let's see if we can develop something around it. After thinking about it for a few weeks it seemed not...

Co-Founder Legal Partnerships

asked Dec 3 '12 at 18:40

Patrick Long
11 points

There are a couple startups I'm thinking about joining. They are in very early stages (seed round or incubation). I am interested in the position of technical co-founder. They've all asked that we...

Co-Founder Contract Equity Technical Lean

asked Dec 4 '12 at 09:57

Scott Coates
111 points

There are currently 3 cofounders and 1 of them is an engineer other 2 are sales representatives. Many of the times technical cofounder doesn't agree with our views and is backed by his team...

Co-Founder Founders

asked Dec 4 '12 at 21:51

Santu
156 points

I have read the multiple threads about equity splits but I am getting mixed answers. Mainly between this thread which pointed me to this The Founders' Pie Calculator which states it is a rookie,...

Co-Founder Equity

asked Dec 5 '12 at 09:00

Console
8 points

Maybe i'm mixing CTO with VP of Engineering here. But as a CTO early on in a 5 person startup that haven't built a prototype yet...What are the key topics or areas that you must have a vision for...

Getting Started Co-Founder CTO Micro Startup

asked Dec 8 '12 at 12:59

Rbend
18 points

Here's the problem for software development startup. We're two. One can do a decent hard-skill programming. The other one don't know anything, except he has some capital ( approx. less than 10k,...

Software Co-Founder Management Business Development

asked Dec 12 '12 at 19:13

Peter
6 points

Possible Duplicate: Is performance based equity vesting possible? Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly? The venture was started by "A" and "B". "A" worked full...

Co-Founder Equity

asked Nov 21 '12 at 06:27

User13405
101 points

What shall be the role of the person I am involving in launching my start-up(about to register and launch), As initially I see me and him performing project management part of it(as implementation...

Getting Started Co-Founder Partnership

asked Nov 21 '12 at 19:25

Goku
58 points