Startups Anonymous

I started a startup four years ago, shut it down last year, and have been freelancing since then. I loved working on the startup even though it was a disaster, but I hate freelancing and I don’t have any other brilliant ideas, so I decided to try corporate life. I recently accepted an offer I…

Brought on an “angel” investor several months ago, who put in $25k along with two colleagues of mine from another business that also put in $25k. I had already developed the business plan before meeting all of them and have everything packaged, contracts and proprietary software ready to raise the full amount to build our…

My partner and I were friends for awhile before we decided to put up a business together. We were pretty aligned throughout the first few years until he started becoming negligent, passive, and somewhat lazy. To keep responsibilities equal, tasks were still divided but he would end up forgetting his end of the job and…

My partners and I started a boutique software development firm and we’ve been going at it for 5 years now. We’ve grown the company considerably and have been seeing good numbers year after year. However, I am totally burned out. I am overwhelmed with all the projects/clients that we have, I struggle with my partners’…

I got an offer from a fintech startup to come on board as their most senior specialist, 3 founders, employee number low single digit offer. Successful series A funding, several millions in the bank, ready to build for quite a while, very attractive business idea and strong founders team. If I jump, I would have to…

I started a consulting business with a partner 7 months ago. Of that 7 months, he’s taken roughly 20% off for vacation in the early going of our startup. When we split everything 50/50 I don’t think this is fair to me or to the success of our business. We otherwise have a good relationship…

We are two startup founders working on the development of a product(app). It caters to a certain demographic and marketing plays a huge role. One person is involved in coding the app (30%) and other is responsible for the Business Operations (70%). Currently, we have been looking at ways of nailing down the details of…

My friends and I applied for a startup program and got selected. Our idea is an AI related app. We agreed that we three will be the co-founders, and I will also serve as CTO. However, since we could not reach an agreement on the company shares, they told me that we should all quit…

My co-founder has become discouraged with our Saas software that is at a pre-seed stage. He wants to pursue other opportunities but is not too willing to give up the 30% equity he owns, which will make getting our seed round infinitely more difficult. Fortunately, I’ve managed to find another co-founder who believes in the…

Since I don’t have any startup experience yet, the terms I am using may not be correct… So here goes the situation. I have a friend that has a startup. The previous co-founder who is responsible for coding has left and he invited me to replace his role. Now I am in the process of…

I defaulted on private student debt a long time ago. It’s a long story why, but mostly I’ve worked overseas since then and although my credit has recovered, the statute of limitations has not depleted and I could still be sued for it. Since then, I’ve started a company with 2 co-founders. We’re incorporated overseas,…

My startup is not doing well & I would like to go back to a full-time job after having left job more than 4 yrs ago as a lead developer. I did not raise any money, I can still code & I am above 40yrs old. I applied for a few jobs (putting last 4…