Equity Questions

My co-founder and I have been working on a business idea. We both invested money into getting it to a MVP stage, but it hasn't been launched and does not make any money. (It is basically a modified...

Co-Founder Equity

asked Apr 2 '12 at 01:25

Fernandose
41 points

How can the co-founders that hold a minority of the shares be protected against: A dilution of his equity (economic and control) triggered by the shareholders that hold a majority of the...

Equity Legal Dilution

asked Apr 2 '12 at 07:27

Jj.
29 points

The situation is this. I am a software developer that, in his free time, has developed a software library for a specific purpose. I use it to write custom applications that I sell or sell directly...

Software Equity Partnerships

asked Mar 12 '12 at 22:11

Lukeluke
8 points

As a stock holder, do I have the right to know how many stocks other investors have? The company is not publicly traded yet, but I am having difficulty trusting that I have received my fair "share"...

Equity Legal

asked Mar 13 '12 at 17:28

User16901
11 points

I have been working with a startup for 6 months. It is an advertising company for which there is a very heavy technology portion (I would say 50% of the company is based off of a mobile front-end,...

Software Technology Equity

asked Mar 14 '12 at 00:30

Phil
210 points

I recently met with a local start-up and was presented an offer. I spent the last few days reading on this board looking for insight into the start-up financing world. The start-up is technology...

Equity Job Offer

asked Mar 14 '12 at 03:08

Patrick
11 points

the funders for my projects plan to put up a holding corporation. this holding corporation is intended to fund feasible projects by various project proponents not only those projects by me but...

Co-Founder Incorporation Equity Legal

asked Mar 14 '12 at 13:48

Lovelyvixen
1 point

We are looking to start up a business and are in a different situation then I have been in before. I will be looking at financing the money that starts the business. I have one partner that will...

Equity Seed Funding

asked Mar 15 '12 at 09:46

Jim
1 point

I was looking at kickstarter to get some funding for a possible business venture. Kickstarter funding would cover entity filing fees and other costs or licenses and materials. I have seen some...

Funding Equity Crowdsourcing

asked Mar 15 '12 at 12:35

Cqm
11 points

In a startup company, there are 4 people involved, and all of them work on a sweat equity basis. Here are the people and their role: Person #1: Helped shape the idea with person #2. One of the two...

Co-Founder Equity Shares

asked Mar 20 '12 at 06:44

Dave
1 point

I am starting a new company with a long friend. He had the original idea but we both developed the idea and spent approx equal amount of funds to get it to the state of developing and launching...

Co-Founder Equity

asked Mar 21 '12 at 02:45

New Biz Guy
1 point

I'm trying to figure out what my role is... Backstory: Late last year (October/November) I was asked by an acquaintance If I'd be keen to help develop a SaaS product that he & his brother had...

Co-Founder Development Equity Shares

asked Mar 4 '12 at 16:42

Kyebosh
18 points

Thanks for taking time to read my post and sorry for the loaded questions -- please read patiently to help me. Here is the scenario: Founder has the startup idea vetted 3.5 years ago -- but never...

Equity Team Distribution

asked Mar 4 '12 at 17:55

Sandra Mistry
6 points

Last month I was offered for an equity on a startup venture. It's an online store focus on selling customized toys. Their business models looks good and promising. But I just have few doubts and...

Equity Business Partnerships

asked Mar 6 '12 at 23:38

Pennf0lio
140 points

I'm in the process of trying to establish my first startup. At the moment I'm working with a friend of mine on developing the idea, and we had already created a prototype for our product on a...

Getting Started Co-Founder Equity Legal

asked Feb 21 '12 at 04:50

Orchestrator
149 points

Possible Duplicate: Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly? I'm a developer who has been in contact with a nontechnical cofounder to become the technical cofounder in...

Software Co-Founder Partner Equity

asked Feb 22 '12 at 08:38

Fred
6 points

I helped co-found a company (with 2 others) that isn't in the black yet, I've personally put in at least 30k of my own money and have been in charge of most things. I've recently announced my...

Founder Equity

asked Feb 22 '12 at 12:08

Kevin
16 points

I'm a co-founder of a startup, and I've been working on it for almost 3 years. The vesting term is 1-year cliff and 1/48 per month. So now I have vested 15%, and 5% not yet vested. I need to quit...

Equity Vesting

asked Feb 27 '12 at 01:53

Samie
18 points

I have already read many of the posts here about this topic and I got very good insights already but I was hoping to get some tailored advice for my situation. I have been working two years in a...

Co-Founder Equity Vesting

asked Mar 1 '12 at 05:24

Throw Away 222
33 points

Possible Duplicate: Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly? A friend of mine came to me (I'm a software developer) with a software project idea that he had and we...

Ideas Equity Partnerships

asked Mar 1 '12 at 23:05

Diego
101 points