throwfrustrated

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by throwfrustrated 15y ago
I'm starting to realize this may be the only way to go for me to feel good about the whole thing. Thanks.
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by throwfrustrated 15y ago
Even this way, it doesn't repair the last two years, where I've felt like I put it a lot more work, it would only make things fair from now on, which is only a small part of the problem.
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by throwfrustrated 15y ago
As far as I (and our accountant) understand, the structure we have is not a problem at all from a legal point of view (We're not from the U.S.), so no worries there.
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by throwfrustrated 15y ago
As a bootstrapped Internet company, we didn't invest any more money than to pay servers. And actually, a close person to me invested a certain amount of money (because I asked), and he spent most of it on things I didn't agree on (neither d
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by throwfrustrated 15y ago
Well he never demanded me to work more. I spent those 1-2 months barely working because we had serious issues. When we resolved them, and I decided to just think of him, as I said, as lucky early investor, I started working again. The thing
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by throwfrustrated 15y ago
Well that "equity split" was when I decided to go part time, at that point, we effectively had done the same work (almost nothing). And no, I don't get any salary as a full time employee, all profits are divided, so we effectively get the s
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by throwfrustrated 15y ago
The first option I tried (not by choice), when I was for 1-2 months doing only the essentials to keep in running. This was like 8 months ago when we had another big dispute (told around the end of the main story), and he didn't say a word.
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by throwfrustrated 15y ago
Well his idea in the way of "let's do this!", but he's had it for years. Don't we agree that ideas are a dime a dozen if not executed? As of contacts, well they got in play after 6 months of part time work, and while they got the thing roll
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by throwfrustrated 15y ago
While I would prefer commitment and involvement, if he'd done as you say on his own (hey, I feel I should at least give you half of my salary), at least I would've thought he's not committed, but fair. At this point, I don't want or need ha
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by throwfrustrated 15y ago
This is a really good piece of advice, thank you. We actually have some common friends who are either web devs or entrepreneurs themselves, and I've always had this whole thing hidden from them. Might be a good time to bring it up and ask t
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by throwfrustrated 15y ago
I guess my fear is that, confronted with the choice of: I get money, and you don't; or we rethink our equity; he'll say "You know what? I think I'm ready to be working full time on this!", which doesn't repare the past two years, and to be
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by throwfrustrated 15y ago
Well our current equity is, but there's no vesting or anything about "what you have to do in order to earn that equity".
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Ask HN: Frustrated with my co-founder. Any advice?
10 points by throwfrustrated 15y ago|29 comments