View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Sometimes some of the co-founders provide personal startup capital (hard cash) at a company’s inception, and often they will receive a larger portion of founders’ common equity as a result, rather than structuring their capital as a separate investment via preferred equity or convertible note. Ideation/IP.

Equity 315

Equity Founder Sweat Equity Cofounder 315

Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

2) Capital Investment & Sweat Equity - Sometimes some of the co-founders provide personal startup capital (hard cash) at a company’s inception, and often they will receive a larger portion of founders’ common equity as a result, rather than structuring their capital as a separate investment via preferred equity or convertible note.

Cofounder 255

Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 255

Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

2) Capital Investment & Sweat Equity – Sometimes some of the co-founders provide personal startup capital (hard cash) at a company’s inception, and often they will receive a larger portion of founders’ common equity as a result, rather than structuring their capital as a separate investment via preferred equity or convertible note.

Cofounder 173

Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 173

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

When starting a new venture, esp one in concept phase should you be drawing a salary? If you’ve raised seed funding then you should pay yourself enough to live but not enough save anything. I personally only take salary once there’s profits. We are raising seed capital, but would like to have a US tech investor.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44