Cofounder IP Startup Vesting 
Agile VC
DECEMBER 4, 2014
I like to say that “there are only co-founders” — it’s extraordinarily rare for a successful business to have just a sole founder. But not all co-founders are equal in terms of title, ownership, responsibilities, and so forth. Sometimes co-founders put off the equity split question for some time.
Scott Edward Walker
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
Question My co-founders and I are working on a cool new site, and we’ll be ready to launch in a few weeks. Vesting Restrictions. The first deadly mistake relates to vesting restrictions. Otherwise, if one of the founders quits after a few months, he would take all of his shares with him.
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Agile VC
DECEMBER 4, 2014
I like to say that “there are only co-founders” — it’s extraordinarily rare for a successful business to have just a sole founder. But not all co-founders are equal in terms of title, ownership, responsibilities, and so forth. Sometimes co-founders put off the equity split question for some time.
View from Seed
DECEMBER 4, 2014
Editor’s note: Understanding how to divide founder equity at a startup can be tricky, even to the point of reaching emotional riffs between founders. I like to say that “there are only co-founders” — it’s extraordinarily rare for a successful business to have just a sole founder.
Hippoland
APRIL 10, 2016
Dear elizy : I started a company in school with two co-founders. Ada is my professor, and we are using her lab, and the company is based on her research, though the IP is assigned to the company. First off, whatever you decide, you should implement vesting. Let’s call them Ada and Bob.
The Startup Lawyer
JANUARY 28, 2010
Often a startup founder will desire to license his or her intellectual property to a new startup venture, rather than transfer ownership to the startup at incorporation via a technology assignment agreement. Founder IP License Problem. Quite simply, the startup will be without its only asset of value.
Scott Edward Walker
OCTOBER 27, 2015
I get calls and questions all the time about our Startup Package and, accordingly, I put together a brief clip from the podcast “ This Week in Startups ” which should be helpful. We charge a flat fee of $2,000, plus filing fees, for up to three co-founders and it includes unlimited phone calls and emails. v=N1A44ShZfWo.
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