Ask HN: How much ownership is reasonable for a technical co-founder?

Posted by Jeremy007 on Monday April 30, 2012 @07:55PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Typical scenario: I am potentially about to partner with 2 other gents who will be the "business" half of our proposed startup while I will be tasked with building and launching the actual app. How much ownership is reasonable here?

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Re:Ask HN: How much ownership is reasonable for a technical... by sebg on Monday April 30, 2012 @08:04PM (#3912248)

If it's 3 people contributing 100% of their time to the project then it should be 33% for each. If you don't think they will contribute enough to the project for their 33% then perhaps you should be looking for other founders/partners.

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Re:Ask HN: How much ownership is reasonable for a technical... by Jeremy007 on Monday April 30, 2012 @08:10PM (#3912266)

Thanks, this is along the lines of what I was thinking.

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Re:Ask HN: How much ownership is reasonable for a technical... by NonEUCitizen on Monday April 30, 2012 @07:57PM (#3912222)

Why do you need the business types to be co-founders? Why do they get shares at all? Why not hire them as employees (or temporary contractors)? Is your prototype done? If not, why do you need business-types now? What value do they add?

You should retain majority if not 100% of the shares. That way you have more shares left in the pool with which to recruit engineers.

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Re:Ask HN: How much ownership is reasonable for a technical... by Jeremy007 on Monday April 30, 2012 @07:56PM (#3912218)

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!

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