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How to Divide Founder Equity: 4 Criteria to Discuss

View from Seed

For example, when we started LinkedIn at the end of 2002, each member of the founding team essentially had a couple chunks of founders’ common stock. Co-founder equity should have vesting periods (or lapsing repurchase rights) so if a co-founder departs substantially earlier than others, their stake in the business is accordingly smaller.

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Punch & Pie: How Should Co-Founders Divide Equity?

Agile VC

For example, when we started LinkedIn at the end of 2002, each member of the founding team essentially had a couple chunks of founders’ common stock. Co-founder equity should have vesting periods (or lapsing repurchase rights) so if a co-founder departs substantially earlier than others, their stake in the business is accordingly smaller.

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Punch & Pie: How Should Co-Founders Divide Equity?

Agile VC

For example, when we started LinkedIn at the end of 2002, each member of the founding team essentially had a couple chunks of founders’ common stock. Co-founder equity should have vesting periods (or lapsing repurchase rights) so if a co-founder departs substantially earlier than others, their stake in the business is accordingly smaller.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Set any vesting schedules and expiration dates on roughly similar terms, if for no other reason just so you can track all of them correctly. If you’ve got patent or other IP needs, you may want to engage specialists in those areas. You can print shares all day long even if you have no cash, so I get the need for that from time to time.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors. But I admit, I started programming assembly at 11 and then did a lot of C++ before moving on to.NET in 2002. of course, you’re allowed to have your opinions. What did we do?

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