Equity Questions

I have an idea for an iphone app. I want to develop this app. I took an iphone class and tried to develop this app. However, I soon realized you have to be very good to develop a really good app....

Ideas Equity Partnership Iphone

asked Aug 3 '11 at 10:18

Rohit
3 points

I am new to the start up world and doing well as a sales executive for the company who was given a base salary to start with no invested interest in the company. The base salary goes down on an...

Equity

asked Aug 4 '11 at 10:48

Ones
6 points

I am currently the Director of Engineering for a tech/website startup in NYC. I was hired in Nov 2010 after they obtained an angel investment of around 1 million dollars. I am the second tech...

Technology Development Equity Web

asked Aug 5 '11 at 07:50

Commander
111 points

what is a reasonable equity size for very senior engineer (12-13 yrs) at a 20-40 person startup, the startup is supposedly profitable and has not gone through funding rounds yet and has been around...

Equity Mobile Apps

asked Aug 6 '11 at 02:38

User549164
8 points

What does it mean when a consultant ask for founders stock in a pre-funded startup for payment? Is it a special class of stock? Is it non-dilutible?

Equity Definitions Stock Options

asked Aug 8 '11 at 04:09

Jirad
105 points

If my company is profitable and able to pay early startup employee at the market salary (compare to MSFT, Google, Apple etc) , should I still need to pay for significant amount of option to...

Equity Startup Costs Employees Salary

asked Aug 8 '11 at 23:30

Howard
126 points

I own an IT service company providing development services to clients. Recently one of our clients offered us an equity in his startup against the development services we provide. He will give us...

Equity

asked Aug 10 '11 at 21:42

Abhi
31 points

We get a lot of questions about dividing equity and for good reason. Dividing up your startup's equity creates a lot of heart burn for all of us. It's a tremendously stressful affair if you have...

Equity Founders Canon

asked Jul 22 '11 at 22:25

Jarie Bolander
11,421 points

Is it common to issue equity to CEO as Preferred stock but other co-founders as Common stock? When setting up a 20% employee pool, it is common to have terms that the unissued equity will be...

Equity Founders Agreement Employees Angel Seed Funding

asked Jul 23 '11 at 13:52

Howard
126 points

I am part of a 3 member start-up. When we started(6 month) ago we split the equity equally between us and signed a vesting agreement with a 1 year cliff. We have been having some internal...

Co-Founder Equity Legal

asked Jul 25 '11 at 05:26

User12204
111 points

This is a related question to another post I made here: Partnership agreement advice -- I have the idea & ops, he has the marketing investment and industry exp. But here's a critical issue that...

Co-Founder Equity Partnerships

asked Jul 26 '11 at 02:19

Springster
23 points

This question is very similar to this one: Revenue Split - I am doing 100% of the programming work, he's the idea man The difference however is that I'm typically the idea guy and will also be...

Co-Founder Equity

asked Jul 27 '11 at 14:42

John
106 points

Yes I know I should have it written down. My situation is awkward, I joined a midsize company that has few partners. My agreement with the (verbal) was put in X years, wanted a N% stake in the...

Equity

asked Jul 13 '11 at 13:15

Mkr
11 points

It seems like there can be incentive for founders to give away equity to incubators, seed investors and co-founders, and then drop the startup and build a new one doing a similar thing but keeping...

Equity

asked Jul 17 '11 at 07:27

Ashton M.
83 points

I'm the co-founder of a bootstrapping startup, and I have incentive to prefer short-term compensation, like deferred salary, instead of equity. Would it be reasonable to apply a multiplier to the...

Equity Salary

asked Jul 18 '11 at 00:10

Ashton M.
83 points

I've have been asked to head-up and manage a start-up LLC as the President/GM and sit on the board. I will have a base salary package and bonus plan; however, I've asked for an ownership stake in...

Equity Compensation

asked Jul 18 '11 at 01:30

Robert
1 point

I have been working for the past few years as a consultant doing mostly design/development. A good chunk of that time was spent upgrading and/or building out a product for a company that I will...

Equity Negotiation

asked Jul 19 '11 at 01:25

Old Startup
6 points

I discussed an idea for a business with my mother and sister. They both thought it was a wonderful idea and said they would help with sales. We did not discuss compensation (probably because they...

Equity Partnerships

asked Jul 21 '11 at 11:37

Lidia
6 points

So i'm the founder and developer of a startup, when i add a guy to the company to serve as a sales man, and give him 10% of equity of the company without any salary. Does it mean he'll receive 10%...

Equity

asked Jul 4 '11 at 10:12

Ryan
139 points

Several newbie questions for restricted stocks... Is it common for seed fund to invest in restricted stock? Is it common to issue restricted stock to cofounder? Is it common to turn option to...

Equity Angel Seed Funding Stock Options

asked Jul 5 '11 at 01:47

Yoga
116 points