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You don’t really need to worry about how much common stock will be set aside for an employee option pool or how much preferred stock might be issued from raising future VC rounds in order to determine an equitable founder stock division. Ideation/IP. Prior & Ongoing Involvement.

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

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You don’t really need to worry about how much common stock will be set aside for an employee option pool or how much preferred stock might be issued from raising future VC rounds in order to determine an equitable founder stock division. Next, those that were forgoing some or all salary prior to Series A got an additional chunk for that.

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Three years into the growth of a successful company and my partner is slacking off… he is not completing tasks, appears distracted and is losing credibility with our employees. We are raising seed capital, but would like to have a US tech investor. What do I do? What would be the best way to find one ¿?

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