Profit Sharing Questions

Could a limited company decide to pay dividends only to certain individuals, e.g., those who hold 50% or more of the outstanding shares? If not, do dividends have to be paid out proportionately to...

Business Profit Sharing

asked May 29 '12 at 02:18

Kate
99 points

Three of us want to create a freelancing company and work via most popular freelancing sites nowadays. We've been working like this for 2 years and we need more people to help us. I see many such...

Software Equity Business Model Profit Sharing

asked May 10 '12 at 17:07

Ben Mcss
143 points

I was running a startup company for 2.5 years. The company made money, but was forced to close down due to a change in government regulation. Without any new startup idea, I am now looking to find...

Profit Sharing Loss Sharing

asked May 2 '12 at 17:53

User17756
6 points

I'm participating in some business funding and recently we've faced a severe problem. The question is quite simple: how do we share profit, so that no one would be left behind? So, there's three...

Business Profit Sharing Money Loss Sharing

asked Mar 22 '12 at 19:12

Denys S.
166 points

Two co-founders and I have started a project that is going rather well. We sell a service that is paid on a monthly basis but that also has some up-front costs (revenues for us). Thus far we have...

Business Investment Profit Sharing

asked Feb 5 '12 at 09:54

Daniel Gill
175 points

Suppose the following: You have a very small startup (a few people) with almost no startup capital You have a client or two and are making some money, but not enough to afford real salaries Each...

Business Profit Sharing

asked Feb 7 '12 at 03:41

Daniel Gill
175 points

I've developed an idea for a mobile application. Based on research, I believe this application has a great worldwide potential and could be commonly used basically in and kind of business. I've...

Ideas Profit Sharing

asked Jan 25 '12 at 09:11

Matej Zlodej
273 points

I am a part-time programmer contractor and usually I do everything myself, including meeting clients, writing the proposal, programming, the whole 9 yards. I would like to hire someone to split the...

Employees Profit Sharing

asked Dec 12 '11 at 07:37

Yongke Bill Yu
106 points

I am having good success with freelance sites over the last three years. I want to take the next step now: create my own products and services, with the goal of generating stable cash flow, so I...

Marketing Co-Founder Selling Profit Sharing

asked Nov 22 '11 at 23:32

Arshdeep
99 points

I've been developing an online trading algorithm as a hobby project for 3 months during the summer. It seems that two more people will join to me, due to external circumstances not entirely up to...

Trust Secret Sauce Profit Sharing Income

asked Oct 23 '11 at 21:30

Siamii
195 points

I’ve funded a startup with 4 more friends (my fault, but keep reading) and I am taking care of nearly everything. To put you into perspective, we are setting up something with the same...

Co-Founder Profit Sharing

asked Sep 23 '11 at 10:54

Electric
8 points

Having read so much on how equity has to be split, i am still confused and am unable to come to any conclusion. I Would highly appreciate if you could fill in the gap as its making life difficult....

Equity Salary Profit Sharing

asked Sep 3 '11 at 20:24

User13119
1 point

I found an investor, who is ready to invest seed capital ( about $ 100,000 )into the company. But she wants to invest it, in the form of a Loan ( payable back with an interest rate slightly better...

Equity Angel Profit Sharing

asked Aug 12 '11 at 05:19

Kumar
6 points

Imagine a scenario where two people set up a business. They contribute 50-50 in terms of investment. They split profit between them. Over time, only one of the partner now works for the business....

Partnership Business Profit Sharing

asked Jul 28 '11 at 00:25

Sid
44 points

Last year we started a software firm, we have managed to build a good technical team and do a couple of projects which helped us hang around. Recently we had an offer from one of the investor to...

Investors Partnerships Agreements Profit Sharing

asked Jul 13 '11 at 13:08

Fayaz
35 points

Being in the last stages of completing the development of a video based social network, my partners and I have interviewed a few internet marketing specialists for promoting us. After receiving...

Marketing Equity Social Network Internet Marketing Profit Sharing

asked Jul 8 '11 at 17:34

User11829
1 point

We have a Profit sharing program with the branch managers of our firm and I have a question about where to include those payments with regards to our P&L. We currently provide payments...

Funding Profit Sharing

asked Jun 9 '11 at 04:21

Cactus
16 points

I am working on a business plan that I will be pitching to someone very specific. Due to the fact that they are a very large name in their industry (and many others for that matter), the business...

Business Plan Proposal Profit Sharing

asked Apr 26 '11 at 03:06

Joshua
11 points

So we are getting a team together at the moment and starting the R&D of a new project. We want to set up an agreement that lays out our share of the revenue of the product if it was to ever...

Profit Sharing

asked Mar 25 '11 at 01:00

Slandau
203 points

I am running a small business of 10++ people, and am looking to expand the head count to 20++ this year. The business is profitable now, so I am thinking about how to create a profit sharing plan...

Profit Sharing

asked Mar 5 '11 at 20:11

Graviton
871 points