hajiss

Re:What is the vesting period for co-founders in a start up? on Wednesday September 01, 2010 @02:27PM (#1653693)

thanks for your answer Markstansbury, let say the co founder owns 35% of the company...in a typical start up, when do you allow them to vest the last portion? after a year, 2 years or when the company gets profitable?

What is the vesting period for co-founders in a start up?

Posted by hajiss on Wednesday September 01, 2010 @02:10PM
from the self-post dept.

I know that the vesting period is the period of time before shares are owned unconditionally by an employee in an employee stock option plan. If his/her employment terminates before this period ends, the company can buy back the shares at their original price.But if you award a co-founder x # of shares to be vested at x period of time during the critical phase of the start up life-cycle, how do...

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Re:Tech guy looking for business person co-founder on Tuesday August 31, 2010 @11:04PM (#1651673)

my question here is, why would you be thinking about vc's at this point? Start small, look around familiar territory (family, friends, and fools...lol) for raising a small Angel round and also potential biz partnership.

Re:Ask HN: Books that changed your life? on Monday August 30, 2010 @05:50PM (#1647646)

From a start up perspective, Reality Check by Guy Kawasaki is probably one of the most all around no bs start up book out there....

What % of a startup should i offer to technical co-founder?

Posted by hajiss on Monday August 30, 2010 @05:35PM
from the self-post dept.

After paying for the building of an application with a solid business model, I realized that i need a technical co-founder going forward--The application needs some polishing and fine tuning.I have approach a developer who is just finishing graduate school. I told him about my intention of having an arrangement whereas i can pay some cash but also have a potential developer also work for some...

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Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to raise money without a working prototype? on Monday August 30, 2010 @04:49PM (#1647514)

one of the important things about start up is that you have a well documented starting to crawl before you walk is a well established tried and true method; My advice is use about 160 hrs for a good prototype. Use that to test if the idea has stickiness in the first place before you invest 1000 hrs.