By Alain Raynaud on June 23rd, 2010
My startup needed to raise $500K to expand our marketing efforts and get the word out. Raising the money was quite easy: I issued some new shares and listed them on StartupIPOs.com. It’s a marketplace for accredited investors. Startups that need funding list their offerings, and people buy their shares. The price is set by [...]
By Alain Raynaud on April 22nd, 2010
I love advising early-stage startups. A question I get frequently is “how to formalize bringing a co-founder on board.” I could write a book on the topic, but it’s really much simpler than that. Here’s how you do it in one tweet: @joe I expect this co-founder position to be worth ~30% equity. My goal [...]
By Alain Raynaud on August 5th, 2009
At an iPhone developer Meetup a few nights ago, an iPhone developer asked me a key question: “how much equity in my project should I offer to the technical writer that I need to finish my app?” His gut feeling was that as the main developer, he of course should keep most of the revenue. [...]
By Alain Raynaud on July 28th, 2009
Today we are excited to announce an enhancement to the way you create projects with FairSoftware. Many of you asked us for a more flexible way to add co-founders early on and offer more flexibility on the allocation of shares, since you haven’t always found all your co-founders by the time you have your initial [...]
By ricardo on February 11th, 2009
A few years ago, a friend of mine founded a startup with a long-time colleague who was a great salesman. It turned out that the Web 2.0 business my friend was running didn’t actually require those sales skills and so after a few months he had to let this person go. That could have been [...]
By Alain Raynaud on February 3rd, 2009
TechCrunch’s coverage of our new Fair Blogs has generated quite a bit of discussion on the best way to compensate a bloggers network. My Page, My Ads A popular view is that each blogger should be paid for the pages they write. Essentially, if you wrote the entry, the ads on that page are yours. [...]
