Founder Questions

I have started a company with 2 other co-founders in the US and own 40% of the company. I am the only employee on record as the CEO of the company. My lawyer insists that I should draw a minimum...

Founder Salary

asked Dec 6 '12 at 03:47

Edupreneur
6 points

Although the question has the word "marriage" in the title, it is really about any most important relationship in a founder's life, be it husband/wife, fiancee, boyfriend/girlfriend, partner or...

Founder Personal

asked Jan 14 '10 at 09:25

Steve Wilkinson
2,744 points

Related to this question, and applying both ways - finding a person is one thing, but for a technical founder trying to assess a non-technical founder and vice versa to see if they're a good fit is...

Co-Founder Founder

asked Oct 10 '09 at 12:07

Cade Roux
196 points

I've seen and heard in many websites, magazines and talking to people the same thing over and over again... A lot of people seem to agree that "solo" entrepreneurs don't have a chance to succeed....

Solo Entrepreneur Founder

asked Oct 10 '09 at 11:28

Ricardo
4,815 points

What kind of roles does a founder fit into after they are replaced by a more experienced CEO?While a lot of companies we read about still have the original founder as the CEO, in most cases the...

Founder CEO

asked Apr 1 '14 at 22:44

James Middleton
14 points

As a follow-on to my last question What is the ideal mix of founders for a SaaS startup? it seems that a Marketeer is important to a SaaS startup. I think it's fairly easy to find and evaluate...

Marketing Co-Founder Founder Saas

asked Jan 5 '10 at 23:46

Denis Hennessy
1,363 points

Let's say I have a company where I am the founder and also have 2 employees - E1 and E2. Let's say there are 1000 authorized shares, but only 800 of them are issued. 600 of those shares are...

Co-Founder Founder Incorporation Stock Options Shares

asked Oct 8 '13 at 04:45

Salmon
970 points

Id like to know what investment options, equity or debt financing options exists amongst VC Firms for Entrepreneurs wanting to buy out their Investors stake in the business. In other words, exit...

Founder Finance Venture Capital Investors Exit

asked Sep 20 '13 at 06:30

T.G. Van Zyl
11 points

My co-founder and I have been working on my idea for the past 18 months. Throughout, despite statements of their commitment, I have always done the vast majority of the work. We have had serious...

Co-Founder Founder Equity

asked Jun 4 '13 at 07:34

User26519
6 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

yes, I have a couple of them that I do not want to give up any. Supposing they all got very positive feedback from very initial surveys, I would like to request your views on the possibility of...

Funding Founder Hiring Growth Product Launch

asked Apr 27 '13 at 01:07

Menesa
6 points

I've gone to countless networking events, underground entrepreneur groups, cofounder sites like CoFoundersLab, etc. I'm looking more on the business-dev. end. I've talked to quite a few 1:1 and...

Getting Started Co-Founder Founder

asked Feb 19 '13 at 07:14

Code Talk
253 points

We'd like to startup a company that is seen as a UK company and be governed by UK laws, including Privacy laws. However, all of our operations, management and control will reside in Canada at least...

Founder Foreign Company Tax Subsidiary

asked Jan 29 '13 at 06:34

Kate
99 points

We have founding partners who work for our start-up company full-time. We are now having a first external equity investor coming in. We have enough financing to last about one year at which time we...

Founder Investors

asked Jan 17 '13 at 05:21

User23570
6 points

I am a web entrepreneur and programmer. I am good at generating new ideas and refining them but now, my strength is being my weakness as when ever I am close to completing a a product, I get new...

Getting Started Founder Ideas

asked Dec 17 '12 at 08:35

Sourabh
288 points

This is my first startup. I was working with a friend on his startup. He was going to offer me 20% of the company and we worked on it for 4 months. The idea was good but we ran out of money before...

Co-Founder Founder Founders

asked Nov 29 '12 at 15:58

Devin Shavenoff
8 points

Possible Duplicate: Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly? I'm in a position where a colleague has offered me a percentage of a startup that is just getting off the...

Founder Negotiation

asked Sep 3 '12 at 02:49

User19467
16 points

I am in the very early stages of my first startup. I am not technical so I was wondering if getting a technical cofounder should be my first step or if I can go it alone with just my idea at first?...

Co-Founder CTO Founder Technology CEO

asked Jul 29 '12 at 06:23

Peter
21 points

My question/story is this: two years ago I broke ground on a startup. We planned and planned, raised some funds and broke ground writing code. Two years later we put $250k into the business, have...

Founder Founders Compensation Stock Options CEO

asked Aug 2 '12 at 15:39

Webwrks
131 points

I have just finished designing the concept of my service, that is, what I am going to offer to people has crystallized. there are various components to this, and I will look for cofounders now, and...

Founder Blogging Word Of Mouth

asked Jun 8 '12 at 15:58

Bjess
11 points