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 [...]
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Adding a Co-Founder In 140 Characters Or Less
By Alain Raynaud on April 22nd, 2010
Ask Fair: How Much Should I Offer A Writer to Work on my iPhone App?
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. [...]
Reward Performance with Vesting
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 [...]
