Equity Questions

I along with 3 other people created a concept for an innovative Ecommerce platform as part of a 5 week startup pre-incubator. We had a great run and on demo day we won the audience and panel of...

Co-Founder Equity Legal Intellectual Property

asked Aug 20 '11 at 04:10

Adjoa Opoku
106 points

I was offered a job at a very small startup. They have just started a year ago. 4 founders started the company together. I'm going to be their first hire. They offered a "pay the rent" salary and...

Equity Job Offer

asked Mar 5 '14 at 05:51

Mo
6 points

I have the option to take either 5% equity (vested over 4 years) or a $100K cash bonus (paid over 2 years) in a startup that I joined a year ago. The company is less than two years old and we have...

Equity Performance Startups

asked Feb 28 '14 at 15:58

Henrietta Fernandez
35 points

I need advice and experienced views on establishing a proper original founder equity picture in a project. Here are the details: Founder A - Coder / Co-Product Designer / Co-Original Idea...

Co-Founder Equity Startup

asked Feb 25 '14 at 18:49

Dan Newman
21 points

If I join a startup that is offering me 10% equity and they become profitable, does that mean I will get 10% of the profits they make each year? At what point in a startup's life does it start...

Equity Profit Sharing Startups

asked Feb 21 '14 at 15:57

Duane Clark
50 points

A year into a startup, your product is built and you have some traction. You see signs of growing discontent in your co-founder so you confront him to see what's up. And then he drops an issue I...

Co-Founder Equity Distribution

asked Feb 21 '14 at 05:02

Jared B.
16 points

Is there any hope for a founder to sell shares between series seed and series A? After two years of getting a business off the ground with co-founders, I could use cash for family reasons. I have...

Equity Founders Stock Options Liquidity

asked Feb 21 '14 at 06:28

User30169
1 point

I am wondering if there is such a thing as a neutral, 3rd party service that provides an outside assessment to help a founding team that is ready to incorporate come to a decision on equity...

Incorporation Equity Founders Service

asked Feb 20 '14 at 21:32

Dan Newman
21 points

Here's the situation at hand. I'm a designer, entrepreneur. I work with a lot of talented developers etc. One of my non-technical buddies had an idea for an iOS app. He explained it to be through...

Equity

asked Mar 12 '13 at 11:37

Tyler
16 points

What is a reasonable equity split where two people have been working separately on a similar tech idea and are now looking to join forces. These individuals are friends. Despite both working...

Co-Founder Equity

asked Jul 27 '13 at 06:41

Hopeful
16 points

Here's my situation. I founded a company very recently (currently an LLC) and have no external funding. I also don't have deep pockets. This is for a startup in the US in Washington state. I...

LLC Equity Employees Independent Contractor Legal Documents

asked Dec 5 '13 at 18:53

Newbie
6 points

My company received a $15K investment from a friend of the family (we'll call him Doug) two years ago. I issued him a convertible note (no cap) that would convert to equity in either 2 years or if...

Funding Equity

asked Nov 11 '13 at 18:54

Alan
16 points

Let's say you join a small (< 50) hot startup. A month or two after you start, they end up getting acquired for $1 billion. As an employee that just started would you receive any of that money?...

Equity Employees Acquisition

asked Nov 15 '13 at 06:13

Wwwuser
125 points

I'm looking for a startup opportunity in London. I was given an offer to be a startup cofounder. B2B app for finance market. The team will be me an a business guy. He is giving all the money for...

Co-Founder Equity Salary

asked Nov 16 '13 at 03:00

Lukas
110 points

Suppose there is a situation like this: There are 3 people in a startup, the CEO, a partner, and an investor (very small angel). The investor does no work but has 7.5% equity and 7.5% net profit...

Equity Salary Compensation

asked Nov 24 '13 at 09:06

Goose
16 points

I have an opportunity to build a software with a subscription model with my partner who is the domain expert. We found a consulting company who is willing to due the whole development and...

Software Partner Development Equity Consulting

asked Oct 22 '13 at 16:14

Adam
1 point

Our company had an early partner that came in on the 'ground floor' and promised to one of the first hired employees. He invested money into the company for an partner's equity share (25%). A few...

Equity Conflicts Investors

asked Oct 26 '13 at 04:58

The Brock Ellis
28 points

First about my background: I have been programming and consulting for 15 years, with expertise in C#, Asp.net, t-sql, Pl/sql, JavaScript, and to a lesser degree Java, Python, NodeJs etc... I would...

Getting Started Incorporation Risk Equity

asked Oct 31 '13 at 22:25

Beer Drinker
13 points

as a means to enable investment of non fiscal resources across a wide range of disciplines into early stage enterprises we have devised a protected equity model that sees 'sweat equity investors'...

Funding Equity Angel Investment

asked Nov 1 '13 at 00:33

Emile Emiabata
1 point

Can I give someone stake/equity/shares or similar for a project in the company without giving that person any equity in the company? If not, has anyone found ways to accomplish something...

Equity USA Project Shares Florida

asked Nov 2 '13 at 08:32

Javier Figueroa
106 points