Re:Ask HN: How to share equity and talk to a potential partn...
by js3309 on Monday April 13, 2009 @01:39AM
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50-50 or else the project will never get done!
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Re:Ask HN: How to share equity and talk to a potential partn...
by pegobry on Monday April 13, 2009 @04:40AM
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I'm no startup founder (yet!) but as someone who's worked with a lot of them when I was in law, that is the surest recipe for disaster, because as soon as there is a disagreement between the founders there is no one who can make decisions.
As one of my law profs (who also has tons of business experience) said to me: "If you remember two things from law school, it should be these: never share equity 50-50, and always have a prenup."