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1. Split it between you guys, and handle investors later. When a new shareholder (investor or employee) comes in, all existing shareholders dilute equally.

2. Yes. 4-year vesting with a 1-year cliff is typical. Sometimes single- or double-trigger acceleration.

3. 60/25/15 seems really unbalanced. Is the product built and launched yet? Do you have users? If you haven't launched yet, I'd do 33/33/33 or close to it, since most of the work is ahead of you. If the other guys have raised money beyond techstars, launched, or gotten traction, then you can do a less even split. In general, just having the idea isn't worth anything on its own. The hard work is to build the product and get people to use it.



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