Part Time Questions

I am a part of a software startup that includes the following six founders. We are about to seek VC and we need to make sure that we split the equity in a fair/correct manner. Based on the...

Equity Part Time Founders Agreement Shares

asked Sep 23 '14 at 23:35

User34135
11 points

Would it be a red flag for investors if we (2 co-founders) have our entire team comprised of part time interns instead of full time employees? We are looking for a sizable seed round (between $1m...

Hiring Part Time Interns Employees Investors

asked May 16 '14 at 17:11

Karen Seals
4 points

I am a software developer and i wish to start a side business as a hobby wood carver. What is the best way to go about researching the profit potential of those idea? i was thinking: 1. go on...

Part Time Market Research Profitability

asked Sep 26 '13 at 05:23

Victor
137 points

I am a professional developer, and I work on the side on my own projects. I incorporated a company about a year ago, and my last side-project generates about $400 a month. I have now started...

Co-Founder Equity Part Time

asked Jul 16 '13 at 22:38

Antipasti
3 points

A few friends and I have started building small apps and WordPress plugins in our spare time, and I'm wondering what would be the best business structure (LLC, S-Corp, etc) as I think it's almost...

LLC Partner Equity Part Time S Corp

asked Feb 20 '13 at 06:14

Jeremiah Prummer
441 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

My company started hiring office assistants a couple years ago. The rationale is pretty straightforward: since good engineers are hard to find, free our engineers of non-engineering tasks so they...

Part Time Employees

asked Jan 11 '13 at 05:34

User1662
173 points

I am working in a small software company. Owner directly manages the business. I'd like to start my own project, part time. I have a family. It is difficult to find free time to work on my...

Getting Started Part Time

asked Oct 3 '12 at 06:44

Mel1
6 points

I have a side project that I work on part-time. Recently someone who is not technical had similar idea approached me and would like to work on the marketing side and help out on product design....

Equity Part Time

asked Sep 26 '12 at 16:45

Perlwle
23 points

I'm currently bootstrapping my startup but I'm finding that I don't have enough time at the end of a day of work to make enough progress. I'm not able to support myself enough to go full time yet,...

Part Time

asked Sep 4 '12 at 11:53

User19467
16 points

I am involved with a startup that has a very unique structure. We started as friends, all working in our spare time, never intending for it to become a business. Eventually, it started catching on...

Co-Founder Equity Part Time Vesting

asked May 31 '12 at 14:32

Lbc
16 points

This is an update to a question I posted a few weeks ago. Help would be GREATLY appreciated. I'm a co-founder of a new startup with two other partners. We are just hammering out terms (equity...

Co-Founder Equity Part Time Founders Agreement Partnerships

asked Jan 6 '12 at 11:22

Local79
21 points

I'm a co-founder of a new startup with two other partners. I'm a designer and they are a developer and biz dev guy respectively. We are in the initial prototyping phase for the project and will be...

Co-Founder Equity Part Time Partnership

asked Dec 22 '11 at 04:32

Local79
21 points

I work as an architect in a successful product company. I am passionate about doing something of my own like building my own IP. Right now i do not want to just quit my job and do something of my...

Hiring Part Time

asked Nov 6 '09 at 19:18

Siddharth
88 points

Many suggest to work on your prototype part-time and quit after getting some users. I found that it is hard to build a quality product on a part-time basis because of distractions. I have tried a...

Bootstrapped Success Day Job Part Time

asked Oct 12 '09 at 23:07

Web Thinker
430 points

What if you were finishing your degree and you got an offer from a big company, such as McKinsey. What would you do? Would you say no thanks and work 100% on your idea, or work part-time on your...

Getting Started Day Job Part Time Job Offer

asked Oct 13 '09 at 06:36

Tiago
333 points