Founder Naming Technical Cofounder Vesting 
David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. The question is: how should they be compensated when cofounding a company? What are the terms of their relationship with the founder?
www.chubbybrain.com
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. Work life balance is not something that startup founders often get and so the risk of burning out is high. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.
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Ben's Blog
APRIL 28, 2010
In this post, I describe why we prefer to fund companies whose founder will run the company as its CEO. As we looked at the history of great technology companies, we discovered that founders ran an overwhelming majority of them for a very long time, including: Acer—Stan Shih. Siebel—Tom Siebel. Sony—Akio Morita. Sun—Scott McNeely.
www.inc.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Advisor. ); STARTUP. Naming a Business. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., He suggests granting the options on day one but making sure they vest only upon satisfactory completion of the project. That way, he says, "Vesting is an encouragement for the project to be completed.".
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