One of the first tough decisions that startup founders have to make is how to allocate or split the equity among co-founders. Funding.

Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.

Photo Provided by Shutterstock Many entrepreneurs struggle with determining how much equity to give people that join their team early on.