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…

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….

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…

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…

I started a hardware project a year ago, and as I presented the idea to some people I quickly realized that this has the potential to become a proper business. I gathered a founding team of four people that appeared to have experience in the fields that I couldn’t cover. In the beginning, everything looked…

I was asked to join a startup as a co-founder that just finished raising a seed/A round of $1,000,000 with a valuation of $2,500,000. They already have a product that generates revenue for the company. What is a reasonable mix of salary vs equity that I could ask for?

The product has been in development for 3 years. I am the sole developer now and I’d say I’m burnt out, disinterested and mentally worn down. I feel that If I leave it will set the company back a bit until they find a replacement and that I’m leaving a product unfinished. Additional problems are:…

I’m running a startup in Africa. We’ve raised $30,000/= USD from an early stage investor as a convertible debt. We’ve run out of runway and are living off our monthly profit of USD 2,500/=. We are a team of two each with salaries of $400 USD. I’ve received an acqui-hire offer: the deal will involve…

I have been working on this business with one other guy for some time now to get the product ready. It’s finally ready and we have slowly started launching the business. Part of getting ready was launching the social media channels and inviting some friends to like them before I run some ads. I started…

I have always been one to not hide behind gender stereotypes as a disadvantage and create my own opportunities… but today, I am finding it really hard to tell myself that I do not have a disadvantage. Let me first give some background: I have been working on my startup for 10 months. I have…

I have great parents, I moved back home to build the startup in their garage, and they have helped me a lot financially, but they no longer believe in my startup and think it is tearing me apart and this makes me very upset and depressed, feeling like a real loser, and just wanting to…

Someone recently asked about dating as a founder so I wanted to ask: What do other founders think about mentioning being a startup founder (whether female or male) on dating profiles? I notice men and women proudly mention they are a lawyers, doctors, etc. but with startup founders people have preconcieved notions before getting to…

Keeping it short – I’m a “co-founder/friend” who wants to leave a 50/50 relationship (really a handshake). I tried to get the other co-founder to sign a simple collaboration agreement before he put in any amount of work (but he put the work in anyway without signing), and now we’ve both put in a significant…