Re:Ask YC: Startup crisis. Out of money and tech co-founder ...
by drinko on Wednesday May 07, 2008 @04:12PM
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nostrademons, please re-read the original post.
I never had 94%
I was eventually ok with giving up founder level share, but expected founder level commitment. This is where the gap lies.
Chalk it up to first-time founder mistakes on both sides. Almost everybody drastically underestimates the amount of effort required to get a startup off the ground. So what seems acceptable at first ("yeah, this won't be hard for me, I can whip it off for you") starts to feel like you're getting massively ripped off later.
And I totally agree with the comments on other subthreads that she's probably not a very good Django dev. I wouldn't be surprised if this is her first Django project. I remember that I expected my first PHP project to take 3 months; it ended up taking 3 years (I didn't charge for it; it was a volunteer project in college).