www.drowningamerican.com
JUNE 22, 2012
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View from Seed
DECEMBER 4, 2014
Editor’s note: Understanding how to divide founder equity at a startup can be tricky, even to the point of reaching emotional riffs between founders. Below, Lee Hower offers advice for approaching these equity discussions objectively and properly.
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Agile VC
DECEMBER 4, 2014
I like to say that “there are only co-founders” — it’s extraordinarily rare for a successful business to have just a sole founder. But not all co-founders are equal in terms of title, ownership, responsibilities, and so forth. Sometimes co-founders put off the equity split question for some time.
Agile VC
DECEMBER 4, 2014
I like to say that “there are only co-founders” — it’s extraordinarily rare for a successful business to have just a sole founder. But not all co-founders are equal in terms of title, ownership, responsibilities, and so forth. Sometimes co-founders put off the equity split question for some time.
Austin Startup
JULY 23, 2010
No, not related to the famous Wendy’s founder.) Not surprisingly, given his background, Dave built the technology on an open source stack for the infrastructure and incorporated from the very beginning the framework for a robust administrative component that would allow the service to scale as large as needed.
www.virtuosimedia.com
MARCH 8, 2012
This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. It’s simply an untenable situation to expect the technical co-founder to assume the full burden of risk through sweat equity. Best of luck to you in your startup venture.
sivers.org
JUNE 25, 2010
Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Co-founders and outsourcing work the same.
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