Equity Questions

I'm leaving a startup I co-founded, with some of my shares already vested. The other shareholders want me to give back more shares than specified by our vesting agreement. It does seem to make...

Co-Founder Equity Founders Investment Vesting

asked Jun 17 '13 at 22:37

Dan
26 points

Recently I found myself in situation, where I can't decide what the most appropriate act would be. 15 Months ago me and 2 other friends started to work on new cloud software solution. We each...

Equity Partnership

asked Jun 18 '13 at 09:21

Tic Tac
13 points

I was approached by a freelancer i have worked before with to work together as a company. I would be interested in partnering with him. But need some advice on how to get into this partnership. My...

Partner Equity Partnerships

asked Jun 19 '13 at 16:04

Anshul
1 point

I am developing a SaaS platform by bootstrapping with sweat equity while covering the bills with a full time job. I am probably 2-3 months away from launching a viable public beta, and to this...

Bootstrapped Equity Corporate Structure Intellectual Property Domain

asked Jun 28 '13 at 09:39

Shaun
8 points

I have a hobby/side project which I am quite serious about. I have been working on it for about ½ year, but have figured out I needed more people on board for it to become a success. I have found a...

Equity

asked Jun 28 '13 at 19:37

Dofs
73 points

my business partner and i recently decided to terminate our partnership. primarily my decision, but he reluctantly has agreed. we have one concept (a web consumer service/app) that we spent 6...

Equity Founders Agreement Dilution

asked Jul 3 '13 at 23:53

User732013
1 point

I have two other cofounders for my startup and I'm trying to figure out the equity split situation. My question revolves more around if I give out too much equity, how can I remain in control as...

Equity CEO

asked Jul 5 '13 at 11:03

User26898
6 points

We are currently three partners in a tech start-up. I'm the founder and hold 85% of the stake. One of my partners is building the analytical engine which is kind of the backbone of our business and...

Equity Web Entrepreneurship

asked May 15 '13 at 12:01

Tech Entrepreneur
6 points

Alright, I have a pretty clear understanding of how to split equity for real startups, but how to do it for a smaller project (an app), with little acquisition potential (just profits), and a team...

Equity Apps

asked May 23 '13 at 09:58

Sean Clark Hess
113 points

So here is a situation, we are facing. We are three co founders - Saun, Sam and Joel. Saun has been discussing about starting up with Sam and Joel who both happen to be his college mates. All the...

Founder Equity

asked Jun 1 '13 at 17:25

Saun
21 points

(also posted on The Workplace ) A friend of mine (no tech bg, but lots of business xp) is planning to found a startup and has invited me to be the CTO. I have some background working in IT and in...

Getting Started Co-Founder Equity Partnerships Shares

asked Jun 2 '13 at 06:14

User26496
1 point

We are a tech consulting company and our current group consists of four equity partners. We are interested in adding a new "business" partner, as our current partners are all technical, but we know...

Co-Founder Equity Distribution Vesting

asked Apr 27 '13 at 06:31

Bd2x
6 points

6 months ago I quit my job to start a startup with two other people. I'm the business guy. I worked full-time on the project from day No. 1, and made substantial contributions to branding, customer...

Co-Founder Equity Legal Founders Vesting

asked Apr 30 '13 at 08:23

Ileftearly
21 points

I have an entity I've been working on for roughly 4 years, the last being a real push to get it out the door. A student recently joined me and got us into a student business plan competition and we...

Equity Angel Founders Investment Stock Options

asked May 2 '13 at 22:47

User26081
6 points

I've seen plenty of websites that utilize philanthropic crowd-funding, but I'm unable to find any websites that allow people to purchase equity online. Are there any? If not, for what...

Funding Equity Capital

asked May 4 '13 at 11:07

Steve
3 points

In this question, the original poster has a hidden question in: Giving up an equity stake puts me at a disadvantage from a voting perspective (or does it?) Can you structure it as a non-voting...

Equity Partnerships

asked May 7 '13 at 17:05

Nick O
108 points

We have a great idea for a product in a niche market ripe for a paradigm shift on the way business is done. All we have is a kick-ass business plan with detailed projections, costs, marketing, etc...

Equity Seed Funding

asked May 11 '13 at 05:10

Tim
21 points

We have been coding now for about 6 months on our startup. Up until now, we have bootstrapped the entire project on pennies, being cash poor. Fortunately we were able to raise a small friends and...

Equity Independent Contractor Compensation

asked Apr 10 '13 at 05:44

Derek
164 points

We founded a C-Corp in fall 2012. None of us are taking a salary and there are no salaried employees. Do we need to send out W2's?

Equity Tax Corporation

asked Apr 13 '13 at 23:30

Evan Hammer
16 points

Over the last two years or so I've been developing a software product in my spare time(I'm still currently consulting at an investment bank). It's fairly niche in that it's targeted only at banks...

Equity Financial

asked Apr 17 '13 at 09:08

John
21 points