View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2014

The most successful approaches to splitting founders equity typically involve establishing a framework that all the co-founders buy into at the outset. 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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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

The most successful approaches to splitting founders equity typically involve establishing a framework that all the co-founders buy into at the outset. 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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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

The most successful approaches to splitting founders equity typically involve establishing a framework that all the co-founders buy into at the outset. 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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blog.simeonov.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

In one case the CEO had a different vesting schedule because he had spent a lot more time than the rest of the founding team on the idea. It outlines key points of agreement between founders around IP ownership, equity ownership, vesting, etc. There is some up-front vesting acceleration. The FastIgnite one is two pages.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I’ve developed a very simple work processing framework. I can’t offer any amazing technology or IP, but I can solve a few problems by just doing it “right”, and not the way it’s being forced on people right now. And what do I do with all these email addresses?!

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). First of all,NET is a “framework”, not a “language” as you have said in your post. They use the MVC framework, which gets almost entirely out of your way. net implementation.

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