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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

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I was originally hired as a contractor, developing a SaaS app from scratch, including DB design and coding. I am being offered a single digit percentage of outstanding shares, which I believe is based on the founder’s application of a share distribution as though I am in a CTO or a Director Of Engineering role. PHP Veteran.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. There are only a tiny fraction of people who hit on all the right circumstances to go from prototype to hit in a straight trajectory. I’ve worked with dozens of startups and it only works that way for a small fraction of cases.