Co-Founder Questions

I shared my startup idea with two of my best friends and it seemed like a great thing to do at the time. The entire thing basically revolves around a particular kind of content and let's just say...

Co-Founder Equity Website Shares

asked Feb 12 '12 at 20:44

Aviraldg
111 points

Possible Duplicate: How to Divide Up Your Company's Equity I am teaming up with two co-founders to build a web platform. The two partners are business guys while I am the sole techie. I am in...

Co-Founder CTO Equity Web App

asked Feb 14 '12 at 05:18

Keith
6 points

Myself and my partner are both sales guys. I had a terrible business idea but after meeting with my future partner over lunch one day he made it better by with a few suggestions that I knew were...

Co-Founder Equity

asked Feb 17 '12 at 14:34

Dev Newb
118 points

The CEO of a LLC early startup plans to distribute equity among the founders. Each founder will not know how much equity the other founder has. What are the advantages and the disadvantages of...

Co-Founder LLC Equity

asked Feb 6 '12 at 23:14

Anon User
62 points

Approached by 2 founders that are very early days of executing an idea. They have some good .com properties that will be central to brand/idea and had recent offers around $100K, with one outlier...

Funding Co-Founder Equity Investors Seed Funding

asked Feb 8 '12 at 12:24

Jjj
21 points

Our startup has a person who holds a very high percentage of the company's common stock. We don't have any money yet, and we've been working for a year. This guy has done an extremely minimal...

Co-Founder Company Shares

asked Jan 27 '12 at 10:16

Pasham
26 points

We are planning a start up website to sell few products which are available locally but have quite demand on other places. Here to outline I have the following experience: 1. Strong Technical...

Co-Founder Legal Partnerships

asked Jan 18 '12 at 04:54

Simsons
101 points

I know there are tons of partnership questions, so I hope it's ok to add another one to the mix. I have been bootstrapped my own software product for the last year while still having a day job....

Co-Founder Partnership

asked Jan 18 '12 at 23:26

Scott J.
111 points

Long story short: I've had my fair share of bad business partners (the ones who were supposed to fill the holes on the business end from legal to marketing to sales). Being a technical person...

Co-Founder Entrepreneurs Technical

asked Jan 24 '12 at 08:06

Bojo
8 points

I was presented with the following offer and while I'm waiting legal advice, I'm interested to know your opinions. I'm been offered a "co-founder" seat with a bit over 10% in stock options vested...

Co-Founder Job Offer Stock Options

asked Jan 24 '12 at 15:59

Latecomer
11 points

2 other guys and myself decided to put together a young mens online magazine. We collectively came up with the name, but I came up with the concept of the magazine. 1 guy does the writing and the...

Co-Founder Incorporation Equity Income

asked Jan 9 '12 at 12:47

Fashionisto
1 point

Ok, so I'm a developer. I was approached the other week by a friend who had an idea for a website that he wanted to make, and he came to me because a) we know each other, and b) I've given him...

Co-Founder Equity Website

asked Jan 9 '12 at 18:03

Semisight
103 points

A while back I outsourced the development of a .NET application via a freelancing site. I then marketed the software on a small scale to test its commercial viability. Sales were promising, and the...

Co-Founder Entrepreneurs

asked Jan 13 '12 at 04:22

Dan
11 points

This is an update to a question I posted a few weeks ago. Help would be GREATLY appreciated. I'm a co-founder of a new startup with two other partners. We are just hammering out terms (equity...

Co-Founder Equity Part Time Founders Agreement Partnerships

asked Jan 6 '12 at 11:22

Local79
21 points

I have a two member software start-up with a co-founder who is also a very good friend. We make decent money through our products and services, but could do much much better if my co-founder did...

Co-Founder Time Management

asked Jan 7 '12 at 06:04

Fox
38 points

This is the flip side of this question about what to look for in a technical co-founder. If I have technical skills and can build a prototype myself, what sort of skills or experience should I...

Marketing Sales Co-Founder Business

asked Dec 19 '11 at 08:59

Hartley Brody
1,317 points

I'm a co-founder of a new startup with two other partners. I'm a designer and they are a developer and biz dev guy respectively. We are in the initial prototyping phase for the project and will be...

Co-Founder Equity Part Time Partnership

asked Dec 22 '11 at 04:32

Local79
21 points

I am looking to create a company with 6 founders. Reason being...I need them all and they are all genius. Because they are all already highly compensated at great companies, equity will be my only...

Co-Founder Equity Founders Agreement Joint Venture Fundraising

asked Dec 22 '11 at 10:02

Dustin
11 points

I have a sort of "specific" dilemma. I am a founder of start-up (business networking platform) which target market is East Asia and Japan being one of the most important markets. Our beta is ready...

Co-Founder Technical Web Dev

asked Dec 8 '11 at 17:31

Peter K.
194 points

I am working on my project full-time w/o income for a while, now it's getting to the end and I need someone with marketing experience to on board and help out, and a technical guy for final...

Co-Founder Equity

asked Dec 9 '11 at 06:47

Tom
197 points