hrishimittal

This is a post by Joel Spolsky, originally posted on answers.onstartups.com in response to a question. You can find a copy here.

Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?

This is such a common question here and elsewhere that I will attempt to write the world's most canonical answer to this question. Hopefully in the future when someone on answers.onstartups asks how to split up the ownership of their new company, you can simply point to this answer.

The most important principle: Fairness, and the perception of fairness, is much more valuable than owning a large stake. Almost everything that can go wrong in a startup will go wrong, and one of the biggest things that can go wrong is huge, angry, shouting matches between the founders as to who worked harder, who owns more, whose idea

nolim1t

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