Equity Questions

Say one person comes up with the idea for a startup, and spends a significant amount of time over 2 years developing the business plan. That person then asks others to join the startup as...

Equity Business Plan Shares

asked Jun 23 '11 at 00:32

A Fake Username
86 points

I have recently launched my small online business(sole proprietorship). I have no funding and this is something I been working on for the last two years on the side at night after work. I am...

Equity Human Resources

asked Jun 5 '11 at 11:07

User11033
21 points

My firm is offering me 5% of the company. The structure they laid out for buyback of this equity seems odd to me. What are your thoughts? "The purchase price of equity shall be equal to 5X net...

Equity

asked Jun 5 '11 at 16:35

Anthony
26 points

I am the technical founder of a software product, the product is finished with good inputs from at least 6 to be customers. My to be Sales partner who is already helping me from the past 4 weeks...

Sales Co-Founder Equity Partnerships

asked Jun 8 '11 at 00:13

User11074
39 points

I've been working with a friend's startup for about six months now. We have minimal revenue thus far, but things look to be on the brink of coming through. My role with the company has yet to be...

Equity Compensation

asked Jun 8 '11 at 06:43

Bspring18
6 points

I an a technical guy, plans to goes full time for a startup to build a social network site, with a friend who is a business guy. Initially, he will work for part-time until our startup is enough to...

Equity Distribution Stock Options

asked Jun 10 '11 at 01:42

Jack
26 points

[Disclaimer: This question was also posted on Hacker News] Howdy, Just 6 weeks ago my co-founder and I began working on our startup full time. We want to accelerate development and have talked to...

Co-Founder Hiring Equity

asked Jun 11 '11 at 09:42

Caffeinated
6 points

A company (pre-funding) wants to do a 3 month trial period with me. I received an offer for X shares of stock. How do I determine if I am properly compensated for my efforts? The value I would...

Equity Trial Compensation

asked Jun 11 '11 at 17:41

Daniel
157 points

I joined a small startup company roughly 1 year ago as the 3rd member of the company. At the time of joining, the company was roughly 6 months old; the company is contract work based and the 2...

Equity

asked Jun 13 '11 at 03:58

User192585
6 points

I am part of an LLC along with two other partners. One of the partners wants to provide services to a company as a source of additional revenue. I am ok with that but since the compensation for the...

LLC Equity

asked May 26 '11 at 10:19

Kan
46 points

I started a surveillance technology company in May 2010. Since the beginning, we have been working with a person that has been in the security industry for quite a while. He was providing some...

Sales Technology Equity Angel Investors

asked May 27 '11 at 04:47

Michael
234 points

At the moment, my co-founders and I are working on our startup part-time. We're in the process of figuring out how many shares to allocate to each person. If one of us quits their full-time job to...

Equity Fulltime Shares

asked May 19 '11 at 06:19

A Fake Username
86 points

Is a one-year cliff with no accelerated vesting typical?

Equity Compensation Stock Options

asked May 20 '11 at 03:53

User7991
6 points

Thanks for taking the time to read this post. I am looking for some advice on how to setup equity for members of my company, which is a location-based social network for iOS devices. As it stands...

Equity Investment Investors Memberships

asked May 22 '11 at 02:40

Canty Jeffrey
10 points

Should a company equity entitlement be stated in your employment contract? If not, what entitlement to any equity do you have? Particularly if you're already employed there?

Contract Equity

asked May 24 '11 at 02:57

Chester
6 points

My question is pretty broad, but I am just wondering the next logical steps to take in establishing and distributing equity in an iOS App Business Startup. What form or document do I would need to...

Equity Distribution Agreements Shares

asked May 24 '11 at 13:47

Canty Jeffrey
10 points

I have been approached by a friend to help with the business side of a venture that he has developed/bootstrapped. No external funding until now. He has developed a working product with outsourced...

Bootstrapped Funding Equity Terms And Conditions

asked May 25 '11 at 16:30

Paddy
31 points

I've read similar questions but like anyone asking a question I think my situation is different. My background: I've been working full time since 06 and currently work as a Sr. Developer on a...

Equity Company

asked May 26 '11 at 05:59

Josh
36 points

I have a few Angel investors, and a meeting next week with serveral VCs (brought to the table by the primary Angel), and I am trying to put together the equity sale package to present to everyone...

Equity Angel Investors

asked May 12 '11 at 23:48

Entrepreneur
11 points

There are a lot of books out there which hit on these concepts: Discounted cash flow: NPV, IRR Return on equity WACC CAPM Capital structure: Debt vs. Equity However, most of these books broach...

Equity Finance Loan Corporate Capital

asked May 13 '11 at 03:00

Jgoldberg
6 points