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I’ve been the tech co-founder (CTO) of a startup for a year now. I wanted to develop an MVP of the non-tech cofounder’s (CEO) idea and get it into the hands of potential customers. CEO decide...

https://startupsanonymous.com/question/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go-2/

Details: I joined a side hustle and within a year helped it evolve into a bootstrapped, profitable service company with a whole team and client portfolio. The owner works full-time for another co...

https://startupsanonymous.com/question/the-could-be-co-founder-compensation/

I’m 23, “CTO” and I joined the startup almost one year ago in September 2019. I moved to an other country and left my friends and family for this project. – I’m barely getting paid sinc...

https://startupsanonymous.com/question/as-the-only-tech-cofounder-should-i-quit-my-startup/

Launching a subscription service, &hope to make over the VAT threshold eventually, so ill need to register when that is the case.Should I inflate my prices by 20% so It can cover VAT when I regis...

https://startupsanonymous.com/question/should-i-consider-vat-tax-uk-20-in-my-subscription-price/

so me and a couple of friends started this company. nothing is official yet but we have a verbal agreement for 58% me 10% for our CTO,2% advisor and 30% for my CFO. but he hasn’t put in any mon...

https://startupsanonymous.com/question/can-i-dilute-my-cofounders-equity/

HI all, Started my startup a few years ago with another co-founder. Put the money in with him ,bootstraped MVP, found the engineers tetc. Then we brought on 3rd tech co-founder. He really acceler...

https://startupsanonymous.com/question/co-founders-want-me-out/

2.5 years ago, I started a company. Progress has been difficult, so was finding the right team. Turns out I’m somewhat difficult to work with, which I’ve been working on. My previous cofounde...

https://startupsanonymous.com/question/is-it-reasonable-to-reconsider-equity-split-if-the-founder-is-underperforming/

We are a team of three co founders. What can you do if you are the only one committing 10 hours + and the rest is doing 9-5? The post We are a team of three co founders. What can you do if you ...

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I am planning to return to school soon. Our CEO is under the gun to meet some deadlines before the next board meeting, so I don’t want to stress him out further, but he may be able to use this ...

https://startupsanonymous.com/question/i-plan-on-leaving-a-small-startup-in-7-weeks-should-i-give-notice/

This may come off as very naive, but I have what I think is a very solid concept for a healthcare platform. I’ve vetted it with people I trust in this specific vertical of healthcare who think ...

https://startupsanonymous.com/question/where-do-i-find-a-trusted-advisor-and-how-do-i-protect-my-idea/

My company is doing fine, we had a nice growth compared to last year and everything is fine in my personal life. It’s just I get these “fed up” moments that last sometimes weeks. I just fee...

https://startupsanonymous.com/question/sometimes-although-i-know-i-have-a-lot-to-do-i-just-procrastinate-what-about-you/

I run a very successful law practice.  I have a ton of clients and I am successful with a solid reputation.  I got very inspired and motivated to start a career site and job-matching platform f...

https://startupsanonymous.com/question/what-direction-should-i-take-my-startup/

We’ve just launched our company and the offering is really broad. I’m finding that my co-founder is very much taking it in a direction that I don’t agree with. It’s coming up on six month...

https://startupsanonymous.com/question/scaling-back-just-after-launch/

I understand money is paid back to the investors – but how much money are early employees supposed to get in the pool that is left over – say they owned 2-4% of the company The post How muc...

https://startupsanonymous.com/question/how-much-should-early-employees-receive-in-a-acqui-hires/

I have two senior managers in my company. (Hesitant to say co-founders as I started the business and have since brought them onboard). One who is a great project manager (our business) but turns ...

https://startupsanonymous.com/question/what-to-do-about-co-founders/

I have a start-up with 2 partners.  One year in.  All 3 of us have been full-time on development.  Pre-revenue.  One more person has planned to join us since initial planning began with the p...

https://startupsanonymous.com/question/how-to-calculate-pre-revenue-partner-buy-in-and-impact-from-unequal-partner-cash-investment/

My wife and I are thinking of starting the entrepreneurship journey.  We have a great idea (SaaS in LegalTech), we’ve done market research, we’ve talked to potential clients, and we’re abo...

https://startupsanonymous.com/question/how-do-you-become-an-entrepreneur-if-youre-older-have-family-loans-etc/

The investment he has put in to the company has gone in to his directors loan to be paid back to him through the company but he also requested he was paid the same wages as me and my business par...

https://startupsanonymous.com/question/should-my-investor-be-paid-wages-from-day-one-of-his-investment/

Not sure how to phrase things (or maybe I’m asking the wrong questions), but I’ll ask it anyway to at least get the conversation started. On Feb 2, I joined as the CTO of a 2yr old startup th...

https://startupsanonymous.com/question/how-do-i-the-cto-find-alignment-with-the-ceo/

So I just noticed the insane amount of “total compensation” of programmers these days. From 200K for fresh grads to 500K at Facebook for Sr Software Engineers. At that rate you’d easily cle...

https://startupsanonymous.com/question/why-would-a-programmer-in-sv-start-a-startup-these-days/