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Ask HN: How much equity should I give my new co-founder?

I'm solo-founder and everything goes good for now. But I'm very stressed now and I think it would be better if I would have a co-founder. Our startup is ready and already launched 2 month ago. I found a good guy, that I think he can help me to grow our startup. Now he asks what part of my startup I'm going to give him.

I can't decide how much percent equity should I give him.

He is startup-savvy guy, knows SEO, online marketing strategies, online business growth-hacking etc. No coding skills.

Our startup is SaaS but our business model isn't on recurring revenue. Clients make one time payments.

Margin profit now: 80% revenue (team= me(founder)+3 employee+ 2 long-time freelance developers + tax)

Real revenue in first 2 months:

Oktober - 1st month – 1230 $

November - 2nd month – 9820 $

Revenue Prediction :

3rd month – 11000$

4th month – 20000 $

5th month – 25.000 $

6th month – 35.000$

7th month – 40.000$

8th month – 45.000$

9th month – 50.000$

10th month – 55.000$

11th month – 70.000$

12th month – 80.000$

13th month – 90.000$

December 2015 – 14th month – 100.000$

Total Revenue on end of 2015: 662.050 $

7 points zeynalov 12 years ago 8 comments

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