Shares Questions

Background: I am currently working in a medium-sized company (~50 employees) in a team of 7 members. Our team has grown to the size where we want to part ways from the mother company and form a...

Shares Share Percentage

asked Apr 22 '20 at 10:05

technical_guy
1 point

We have a Hong Kong company and are trying to launch. We have limited funds but are thinking of hiring someone and paying in shares. However, we don't want to just sell shares and watch our new...

Hiring Legal Agreements Shares Vesting

asked Jun 17 '14 at 09:16

User33966
11 points

I came here to ask about: How do companies divide their equity shares among the founders and investors? For example, consider two persons are building a company. Person1 came with the idea of an...

Funding Equity Investment Shares Startup

asked Jun 9 '14 at 07:28

Sky Buzz
36 points

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

All the plugins I've tried have not worked, and the sites that I've tried want my passwords. I'm not comfortable with that. No plugin seems to be able to post to Pinterest (high priority). Google+...

Social Media Wordpress Shares Automation

asked Nov 7 '14 at 05:45

Starrychloe S.
83 points

What is the difference between clawback and founder vesting? It seems that the term "clawback" was used in connection with the Zynga and Skype cases Equity Clawback - how to avoid Zynga situation

Equity Shares Vesting

asked Jul 31 '12 at 19:33

Jhexp
105 points

Let's say all of the following conditions are true: I have the connections needed to get audience with multiple multi-millionaires, although I, myself, am not one. I have, in concept, designed a...

Getting Started Ideas Investors Computers Shares

asked Oct 27 '13 at 03:01

Jonathan Todd
28 points

I intend to set up an IT company. As a one person startup, how do I determine what share capital the company should have? It can be $1, $1,000 or $100,000. Then, the shares can be ordinary or...

Shares Capital Startup

asked Mar 21 '14 at 10:53

Wayne
6 points

View: It seems to me that the only sure way for the founder of a company to ensure, with absolute certainty, that he will not lose control of his company is for him to retain 50.1% of his company's...

Investors Shares Stocks

asked Oct 28 '13 at 09:36

Jonathan Todd
28 points

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

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

In the last 6 months I was working on stop motion app for Android. Now the app gets around 100 download per day in Google Play (first month) and around 50,000 picture was taken so far, and I'm...

Co-Founder Design Shares

asked Aug 29 '13 at 04:20

Jimmy
111 points

Let's say I already own a LLC (single-member, disregarded entity). Now, I just closed a new business and have a partner in the US, a new LLC will be formed, with two members - my partner and I. I...

LLC Tax USA Shares

asked Aug 22 '13 at 02:19

Full Of Caffeine
3 points

So, A friend of mine has a brand created for a game, characters, story, the works. He also a rough idea about how the game should be which looked pretty solid. He took out about $40,000 loan and...

Getting Started Contract Equity Legal Shares

asked Aug 25 '13 at 03:43

Brybam
103 points

I am a developer with a few years of experience and someone asked me to work on his very early stage startup (2 people right now). The company is doing ok, not making a lot of money but it's...

Contract Shares Money

asked Jul 18 '13 at 01:43

Mthrowaway
13 points

I wonder how companies like Y Combinator are structured. Y Combinator is a seed accelerator, investing in and consulting businesses. On Y Combinator's web site, there is a list of partners. Y...

Consulting Corporate Structure Investors Shares Ycombinator

asked Jun 22 '13 at 21:58

Feklee
148 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

So here's the the quick summary: Three co-founders with shares equally divided. Started working on it about a year ago, got incorporated about 4 months ago. Now one of the co-founders wants to...

Co-Founder Shares Vesting

asked Apr 29 '13 at 05:36

Neon Blue Hair
66 points

How does reverse-vesting work? I understand the company has the right to "buy back" shares if the employee leaves early, but how exactly does that work? What price do they pay per share?

Shares Vesting

asked May 9 '13 at 13:24

Gili
178 points

I've been offered a job within a new SaaS startup. I'd be the first technical hire. They've offered to match my current salary and give me 2.5% stock options. Or I take a couple of £K extra with no...

Jobs Stock Options Shares

asked Apr 11 '13 at 03:05

Iamjonesy
129 points