Co-Founder Questions

I'm leaving a startup I co-founded, with some of my shares already vested. The other shareholders want me to give back more shares than specified by our vesting agreement. It does seem to make...

Co-Founder Equity Founders Investment Vesting

asked Jun 17 '13 at 22:37

Dan
26 points

Person A wants to start a C-Corp in California operating a news website. He is wondering if the following form is legal? A is the only Shareholder and the only Director owning 100% equity. A will...

Co-Founder Incorporation Legal Tax Business

asked May 21 '13 at 11:29

User26315
6 points

(also posted on The Workplace ) A friend of mine (no tech bg, but lots of business xp) is planning to found a startup and has invited me to be the CTO. I have some background working in IT and in...

Getting Started Co-Founder Equity Partnerships Shares

asked Jun 2 '13 at 06:14

User26496
1 point

We are a tech consulting company and our current group consists of four equity partners. We are interested in adding a new "business" partner, as our current partners are all technical, but we know...

Co-Founder Equity Distribution Vesting

asked Apr 27 '13 at 06:31

Bd2x
6 points

So here's the the quick summary: Three co-founders with shares equally divided. Started working on it about a year ago, got incorporated about 4 months ago. Now one of the co-founders wants to...

Co-Founder Shares Vesting

asked Apr 29 '13 at 05:36

Neon Blue Hair
66 points

6 months ago I quit my job to start a startup with two other people. I'm the business guy. I worked full-time on the project from day No. 1, and made substantial contributions to branding, customer...

Co-Founder Equity Legal Founders Vesting

asked Apr 30 '13 at 08:23

Ileftearly
21 points

I'm a software developer and I have made the first alpha version of my service. And now I need more human resources to make something significant. I need people which will work for free yet. And...

Software Co-Founder

asked Apr 16 '13 at 23:58

Sergzach
101 points

We are in a sticky situation, that is no ones fault but our own. We had approached a developer to join our startup. After showing him the project he was excited and decided to join. Our mistake was...

Co-Founder Legal Investors Intellectual Property

asked Apr 24 '13 at 15:13

Derek
164 points

I have a unique problem that I was hoping to get some clarity on. The Co-Founder of our business (in Canada) wants to end the business and get out. The company has been operating for 3 years and...

Co-Founder Incorporation Entrepreneurs Canada Partnerships

asked Mar 31 '13 at 15:21

Ben
23 points

I am on F1 visa. I'm done with my masters and am on my OPT. Can I be a partner in an LLC? What about when I go on H1B. I'm looking to startup in Texas & California both. I tried to look for...

Co-Founder LLC Visa USA

asked Mar 7 '13 at 10:10

Diablo Sharma
28 points

We are now at a stage where we'd like to apply for a green card for one of the founders. It seems that this is very difficult to do given that the requirements state that the position for the green...

Co-Founder Visa

asked Mar 8 '13 at 06:24

Conor Power
18 points

We are 3 partners, working on a mobile / web startup for a year and 4 months. The CEO didn't put this startup as his #1 priority as he's involved in some other ventures. Apart from a meeting or a...

Co-Founder Equity Partnerships

asked Mar 13 '13 at 08:44

The Lean Startupist
6 points

I'm in the process of building a new responsive web/mobile app. After I quit my job and now full time working on it, I decided it will be a good idea to get a designer. I wanted her to be...

Co-Founder

asked Mar 16 '13 at 17:43

And Py
15 points

I've checked other questions but none cover the topic of past contributions. I'm wondering how much weight does time spent before incorporating matter. Do Founder A earlier contributions have...

Co-Founder Equity Founders Agreement Shares

asked Feb 23 '13 at 00:12

Jean Pierre
48 points

I am only 14, so I don't have an immense amount of money to make my idea happen. While I am very technical, I can't write code from scratch. I am very good with selling my ideas and getting people...

Co-Founder Developers

asked Mar 3 '13 at 16:16

None
16 points

I started a company in August of 2012 signing up 25 customers as a separate part of a corporation I have had since 2010 and brought in a partner in September. The partner did not put in any money...

Co-Founder Equity Legal Partnership Corporation

asked Feb 14 '13 at 04:17

User24008
19 points

I'm a technical co-founder in a pre-funding company in a niche tech segment, working with two non-technical co-founders who have largely overlapping skill sets. I met them at a networking event and...

Co-Founder Equity Technical Compensation

asked Feb 17 '13 at 15:07

User25060
6 points

I've gone to countless networking events, underground entrepreneur groups, cofounder sites like CoFoundersLab, etc. I'm looking more on the business-dev. end. I've talked to quite a few 1:1 and...

Getting Started Co-Founder Founder

asked Feb 19 '13 at 07:14

Code Talk
253 points

X was working part-time on an idea and after about a year and a basic demo in hand, he talked to two potential people (A and B) who would become co-founders but would work part-time just like X....

Getting Started Co-Founder Ideas Equity Founders

asked Jan 29 '13 at 19:53

Vibgy
6 points

The two of us are going to found a company and will work on all necessary tasks without taking pay at least for the first year. In this case, are we going to be Executive Directors? If so, will we...

Co-Founder Legal Company Founders Legal Documents

asked Jan 30 '13 at 03:16

Kate
99 points