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For the past year, i’ve been working with my co-founder on a start-up. We split the company 51%-me and 49%-him. Both of us were employed until now, doing the startup along with our job. My co-founder brought in an investor now and wants to go full-time on the startup while I will still be working…
Someday I’ll tell you the story of everything I did to keep my company up and running, to give it a chance at being the company I believed in my heart it could be, to give it a chance to do the good it was intended to do. Someday I’ll tell you about how I,…
A few years back, I worked for a startup with a micromanaging CEO. 1-2 women in the office would typically be the focus of his ire. He’d nitpick their work to death, especially regarding design (logo sizing, different layout styles, backgrounds, etc). While he sometimes had a point, it was almost never an salient point….
A couple of months ago I noticed my cofounder was too protective of a new employee – who was in all fairness doing a good job but not flawless. In fact, the flawed part is hard to swallow for me: I have caught her lying, blaming coworkers for her shortcomings, being careless with money (so…
1 year ago, I entered into a handshake partnership with 4 guys who I had previously done commission based work for. We meet, I talk about what I am currently working on (This related to the commsion work I did for them prior) they offer “partnership” 2 months later, we begin this startup. I was…
I and another friend started a tech startup 3 months ago – we worked on the idea, refined it, started the implementation and hired the full-time people needed. However, I am working on it all part-time. Now we have around 10 more people working in a full-time capacity. I’m still doing it part time because…
50-50 co-founder situation. I’ve done 99% of work for 8 years and brought on a co-founder in a new venture with him where he promised to bring in $200k financing and sweat equity. He’s done pretty much nothing and puts his head in the sand when issues come up and shirks responsibility. I can’t take…
My cofounder is partying with our employees, I see it on social media, what do I do?
I’ve been working for a long time on a tech project that is very important to me. For the past 12 years, I used any free time I had to work on it. I managed to get a part-time job so that I could use the rest of the weekdays to work on my project….
I am wondering if anyone has tips on how to build some recognition for my work, not just in a “touch up my resume on Linkedin” kind of way but in day-to-day situations so that I can get some leverage and respect from my coworkers, my peers and the industry. I have worked for a…
2 days ago, I had a lot of doubts about my (not performing) startup and was really unhappy since I am lonely all the time (startup with just me working) and cash running lower and lower. So I took an advice from a friend of mine. I went to a nearby lake and stayed there…
I recently founded an open source startup and have convinced ~25 people that it’s a good enough idea for them to spend a significant amount of time over the past 6 months working on it. This was my idea all the way back from 2010 and I’ve spent the past year doing R&D and putting the right…
So I’m a developer and my friend came up with an idea that could be a great mobile app. After lots of dicussion, we decided to go for it, but the problem is the percentage of the revenue if we get money from it. We are still beginners and don’t know how we could split…
My small but well-known company was founded by my business partner. One year later, his best friend got in the contract as a “silent investor” after lending the business a small amount of money to complete a project. This guy has never worked for the company and his “loan” was actually paid off, but he…
