Co-Founder Questions

This is my first startup. I was working with a friend on his startup. He was going to offer me 20% of the company and we worked on it for 4 months. The idea was good but we ran out of money before...

Co-Founder Founder Founders

asked Nov 29 '12 at 15:58

Devin Shavenoff
8 points

I recently quit working with my co-founder. We had started a software business together and had agreed on a certain profit share. But shortly after the launch of the apps, we had to split because...

Co-Founder Legal Copyright Intellectual Property NDA

asked Nov 13 '12 at 23:57

Brown And Friendly
43 points

Possible Duplicate: Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly? Apologies for the lack of brevity, but I wanted to give you a full picture of the situation. Appreciate...

Co-Founder Equity Compensation

asked Nov 18 '12 at 21:45

Aj Yusuf
1 point

I have the problem that i always meet the wrong people. Most of the people i know on the one hand don't want to be self employed or on the other hand want to found a business but are to optimistic...

Networking Co-Founder

asked Oct 19 '12 at 20:14

Zoidbergi
111 points

Possible Duplicate: Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly? We have a team made up of four co-founders. Our equity split is: Co-founder #1 40% Co-founder #2...

Co-Founder Equity Compensation Partnerships

asked Oct 20 '12 at 07:41

Derek
164 points

Possible Duplicate: Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly? The history of the project: The project started four years ago based on the works and idea of one of the...

Co-Founder Equity Developers Shares

asked Oct 25 '12 at 21:34

Robin
6 points

Possible Duplicate: Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly? So, the situation is this: Last year I was working freelance, and I was commissioned to build a web app....

Co-Founder Equity Business

asked Nov 5 '12 at 04:16

Bluepnume
121 points

I'm currently involved in a software start up with two other people. Abe started the company a couple years ago. He outsourced development for $100k. He's worked a lot of hours, but on a part time...

Co-Founder Equity Conflicts

asked Nov 5 '12 at 17:49

Robbie
62 points

Not sure if this the right place to ask but here it goes: We (myself and 2 founders) found our startup about a year ago. Then we brought on an employee to work part-time and had him sign a...

Co-Founder Equity Employees

asked Oct 3 '12 at 06:45

User19965
6 points

So we are 2 co-founders having a full time job and from the last 14 months are working on a social network. I wanted to share the name of our start up here, but somehow I think that would be cheap...

Getting Started Marketing Co-Founder SEO

asked Oct 5 '12 at 01:30

Rajiv Singh
14 points

Our question is very similar to this one: While H1B can I work on my interested Idea as Startup with no intention of earning? We have one co-founder on a H1B visa who we want to make a legal...

Co-Founder LLC Visa

asked Oct 7 '12 at 03:08

Sam
20 points

Imagine the following scenario: 1 founder and self proclaimed CEO , created an idea for a new website internet services, and started developing it. The core of the system is done, he decides that...

Co-Founder Hiring Angel Founders

asked Oct 15 '12 at 02:26

South
176 points

Co-founder performance in the startup has dropped. He clearly has other priorities in his professional life, like other startups, and he doesn't want to give up his 30% shares. The only written...

Co-Founder Equity

asked Oct 16 '12 at 05:35

South
176 points

I am involved in 2 bootstrapped startups at the moment: startup 1 : I am a co-founder, have executive position and I work full time on it startup 2: I am a co-founder and provided a quite...

Co-Founder Conflict Of Interest

asked Sep 27 '12 at 05:10

Wewill See
53 points

My business partner and I have formed a partnership, we are in the process of drafting our partnership agreement. One of the points that he wants on there is: If one of the partners leaves they...

Co-Founder Partner Shares Profit Sharing

asked Sep 1 '12 at 03:02

Ryan Murphy
108 points

If you were approached by an idea guy (one with not much money), and lets say that the idea itself was an 8 to 10...what would you consider acceptable terms to join the start up? If you could give...

Getting Started Co-Founder Development Partnerships

asked Aug 24 '12 at 09:57

Derek
164 points

My co-founder and I are reaching a point where we need to make some decisions about where and how to incorporate. One of us is in the US (California) where most of our customers will be for the...

Co-Founder International

asked Aug 15 '12 at 05:53

Jwf
6 points

My husband was brought on as a 4th partner of a startup last year. Unfortunately, he did not take the LLC legal docs to a lawyer to make sure the % he was being offered was fair before signing. He...

Co-Founder Technology Development

asked Jul 27 '12 at 16:38

Tracy
11 points

I am in the very early stages of my first startup. I am not technical so I was wondering if getting a technical cofounder should be my first step or if I can go it alone with just my idea at first?...

Co-Founder CTO Founder Technology CEO

asked Jul 29 '12 at 06:23

Peter
21 points

So we have our idea, the site map pretty much laid out and designed, and now we are ready to start looking for a development team. Right now we have three founders and we are looking for one...

Co-Founder Incorporation Business

asked Jun 19 '12 at 08:42

Derek
164 points