Founders Questions

I have what I think is a really good idea for a product/business. I don't have time to develop it so I'm thinking of sharing the idea with some entrepreneurship students at a local university. I...

Equity Founders

asked Apr 4 '13 at 13:09

Clay Nichols
737 points

I founded a company on my own a couple of years back. Got a couple of small clients on board and started making money (not a lot!). Worked for 1 year on it alone and decided to get an excellent...

Equity Founders

asked Mar 19 '13 at 10:46

Robert Smith
11 points

Hope you can help me out with little advice here. I recently founded a website and I have no technical programming. Perhaps I was lucky that I found a rich partner who can't work full time. But he...

Funding Startup Costs Founders Operations

asked Feb 23 '13 at 22:35

Trana
24 points

So I asked a broader question on this situation before, but am now trying to narrow it down to the core issue after negotiations failed yet again with my co-founders. I am a tech guy who joined a...

Equity Founders Compensation

asked Feb 27 '13 at 04:37

User25060
6 points

X was working part-time on an idea and after about a year and a basic demo in hand, he talked to two potential people (A and B) who would become co-founders but would work part-time just like X....

Getting Started Co-Founder Ideas Equity Founders

asked Jan 29 '13 at 19:53

Vibgy
6 points

The two of us are going to found a company and will work on all necessary tasks without taking pay at least for the first year. In this case, are we going to be Executive Directors? If so, will we...

Co-Founder Legal Company Founders Legal Documents

asked Jan 30 '13 at 03:16

Kate
99 points

I've spent quite a lot of time, met quite a lot of people, but still am failing at trying to find a cofounder for my startup. I've gone to numerous tech-meetups, met 1:1 with quite a few people,...

Co-Founder Recruiting Founders Problem

asked Feb 8 '13 at 00:41

Code Talk
253 points

I wish that my equity situation for my new company were easy; unfortunately it's not - so I'd love feedback and thoughts. I met with a well connected business person (we'll call him Karl), and he...

Equity Part Time Founders Fulltime

asked Jan 14 '13 at 11:32

User22529
6 points

Background I am a developer by day, working on some of my own side projects at night. I have been approached recently by an acquintance who makes his living as a business analyst. He has a decent...

Founders

asked Jan 5 '13 at 01:36

Mr Fox
158 points

I'm trying to be as specific as possible here: We are a Startup 5 months on the go with three co-founders. Since none of us can truly code we need to employ our first Web-developer and we have...

Equity Founders Compensation Shares

asked Dec 20 '12 at 03:08

Clemens Kemper
16 points

There are currently 3 cofounders and 1 of them is an engineer other 2 are sales representatives. Many of the times technical cofounder doesn't agree with our views and is backed by his team...

Co-Founder Founders

asked Dec 4 '12 at 21:51

Santu
156 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

Imagine the following scenario: 1 founder and self proclaimed CEO , created an idea for a new website internet services, and started developing it. The core of the system is done, he decides that...

Co-Founder Hiring Angel Founders

asked Oct 15 '12 at 02:26

South
176 points

I co-founded a startup and have been with them for almost a year now. I own around 40 percent of the company, which is to be vested over 3 years. So far, about 1/3 of it has been vested. On top of...

Legal Founders Agreement Founders Business Selling Business

asked Aug 20 '12 at 15:40

Anonymous
11 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

If a friend casually wanted to hack with me and we wrote something that took off, are they entitled to equity in my company?

Founders Agreement Founders Intellectual Property

asked Jun 24 '12 at 06:04

User18524
31 points

hope to get a few outside opinions here. The cast of the saga: "M" - the "idea person", has experience, has (or will have) money from property in near future, unemployed at present "B" - A...

Equity Founders Shares

asked Apr 19 '12 at 07:14

C Uk
4 points

I and a friend of mine are working on our own web startup. Right now we are coding the whole thing and would be looking for investors 3-4 months down the line. My question is, can we include our...

Funding Founders Personal Expenses

asked Mar 10 '12 at 09:32

Sandip Dev
33 points

Can I apply for a DARPA grant, being a foreign citizen who has founded a company in the US? The company would be located in the US and there would be other founders with US citizenship.

Foreign Founders Grants

asked Feb 27 '12 at 09:48

Reachus
101 points

Pretty much, you see ["Harvard", "Stanford", "MIT", "Yale", "Princeton",...] ubiquitously in the bios of startup founders. Sure, in some cases they may have dropped out, but none the less they got...

Founders

asked Dec 9 '11 at 03:28

Len
376 points