{"id":182,"date":"2018-07-21T23:32:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T23:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/equity-for-part-time-co-founder-quora\/"},"modified":"2018-07-21T23:32:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T23:32:25","slug":"equity-for-part-time-co-founder-quora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/equity-for-part-time-co-founder-quora\/","title":{"rendered":"Equity for part-time co-founder? &#8211; Quora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Equity-for-part-time-co-founder'>Equity for part-time co-founder? &#8211; Quora<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"672\" data-orig-width=\"996\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/97335f3a1114e3927776881aedf5d392\/tumblr_inline_pc8pdx2MnL1qz5x9s_540.png\" data-orig-height=\"672\" data-orig-width=\"996\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>\/start rant<br \/><b>THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PART-TIME CO-FOUNDER.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Sorry for shouting. But a co-founder is by definition someone who is fully committed to the company. So he\/she cannot be part-time.<\/p>\n<p>If you really want to give that person a title, you may want to try the term TOURIST-co-founder or WANNABE-co-founder<\/p>\n<p>Now about the equity: <\/p>\n<p>If you give equity to a tourist-co-founder you will have to explain to investors why you did that, instead of talking about what really matters. And this will be quite hard (read=impossible).<\/p>\n<p><b>NEVER give any equity to tourists. They will make your startup un-fundable.<br \/><\/b>\/end rant \u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equity for part-time co-founder? &#8211; Quora \/start rantTHERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PART-TIME CO-FOUNDER. Sorry for shouting. But a co-founder is by definition someone who is fully committed to the company. So he\/she cannot be part-time. If you really want to give that person a title, you may want to try the term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,7],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-founder","tag-startup","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}