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How to Divide Founder Equity: 4 Criteria to Discuss

View from Seed

Additionally, you should put whatever agreement you reach to paper , even if you have not yet incorporated or had your legal counsel draw up the founder stock paperwork. You can then work with your law firm to formally draw up founder common stock paperwork either then or subsequently. Ideation/IP.

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Should I license my IP, sell a royalty stream, or just produce products?

Berkonomics

[Email readers, continue here…] Arthur: This is a matter between the owner of your IP (you) and the would-be user of your IP. The license to use your IP can be in the form of a one-time payment or structured as a continuing fee. If so, be aware of the issue of how you can and do verify the licensee’s report of usage.

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Should I license my IP, sell a royalty stream, or just produce products?

Berkonomics

[Email readers, continue here…] Arthur: This is a matter between the owner of your IP (you) and the would-be user of your IP. The license to use your IP can be in the form of a one-time payment or structured as a continuing fee. If so, be aware of the issue of how you can and do verify the licensee’s report of usage.

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Punch & Pie: How Should Co-Founders Divide Equity?

Agile VC

Additionally, you should put whatever agreement you reach to paper, even if you have not yet incorporated or had your legal counsel draw up the founder stock paperwork. You can then work with your law firm to formally draw up founder common stock paperwork either then or subsequently.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

Typically they get cofounder common equity, in addition to the preferred stock that a conventional VC gets. Venture studios work as co-founders with a founding team, with the larger ones assigning dedicated internal teams for each startup idea (e.g., engineers, designers, business developers). Previously posted on PEHub.

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Punch & Pie: How Should Co-Founders Divide Equity?

Agile VC

Additionally, you should put whatever agreement you reach to paper, even if you have not yet incorporated or had your legal counsel draw up the founder stock paperwork. You can then work with your law firm to formally draw up founder common stock paperwork either then or subsequently.

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When do I need to incorporate a company?

Startup Company Lawyer

Incorporating a company and issuing stock to the founders will help prevent misunderstandings among the founders about equity splits. If there is any IP created and there is more than one founder, then incorporating an entity and assigning IP to the entity is important. Issuing stock options.

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