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Blog postI hear this all the time from founders: “I need to have 51% of the equity so I can ‘maintain control!’” Yes, if you own 51% you will probably technically have control, but I cringe when I hear this because it ignores the real issue: do you deserve control? This is a more complicated issue than whether a person can legally impose a 1% voting advantage over other participants.
The Slicing Pie model is primarily focused on the potential financial benefits of a startup—profits or capital -
Blog postWhen thinking about how to hire a team or acquire resources for your startup, it’s important—very important—to understand the difference between equity and compensation. I often hear people say that they are “paid with equity” or “earn equity” at their company. And, while it is technically possible to pay someone with equity, it is rarely the case and certainly should not be the case in a bootstrapped startup company.
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Blog postSlicing Pie is based on the unpaid portion of the fair market value of each person’s contribution. In a startup, time is one of the most common contributions from founders which means the first step in establishing a new partnership with a co-founder is to determine the person’s fair market salary. This is the amount that your business would pay if it could pay. Fair market salaries are important for two reasons. First, it gives the team the ability to track each person’s at-risk contribution
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Blog postThe entrepreneurship world is awash with startup equity calculating advice from smart, educated, successful, well-meaning people. Some of these people have distilled their wisdom into online apps that will help you and your team calculate equity for the cofounders. A number of them are even supported with research projects with input from hundreds or even thousands of real actual founders. There is only one problem: they are all wrong (except one).
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Blog postBerlin: thanks to the efforts of Stefanie Strümpfler, partner of dextrae Rechtsanwälte · Fachanwälte, who customised for German founders the Cofounder Agreement template – German founders can now use the dynamic equity split based on Mike Moyer’s Slicing Pie method for their projects until incorporation. This is great news for German early-stage founders, as it gives them the opportunity to use the ‘fairest equity split tool’ and avoid many potential issues that ar
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Blog postMike Moyer, inventor of the Slicing Pie Startup Equity Calculator and JP McAvoy, a Canada-based Slicing Pie-friendly lawyer discuss the Slicing Pie equity model and considerations for the Canadian legal system.
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Blog postNorvin, a good baby but not a good reason! In the Slicing Pie model having a baby is not considered “good reason” to quit and, therefore, the quitter loses her slices in the Pie. This may cause some controversy, so it’s important to understand what good reason means in the context of Slicing Pie and being fair.
Good reason (aka “for cause” or “good leaver”) implies that something outside of a person’s control created an untenable situation at work. The most common circumstance is whe -
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Blog postMike Moyer, the inventor of Slicing Pie, speaks with Dr. Pelè, host of the Big-Ticket Clients Podcast and Slicing Pie user. Hear more about the Slicing Pie backstory and some of Mike’s other books and ventures.
See the episode below or click here for the podcast page.
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Blog postIt happens—a lot. Companies fail and fail. The 90% number you hear all the time a myth, however. The actual failure rate hovers around 50% (which is one of the reasons Slicing Pie uses a 2x normalizer for non-cash contributions). If you’re in that 50% that fails, it 100% sucks. I know, I’ve been there.
While I can’t say if Slicing Pie companies succeed more often than those with “fix & fight” equity splits, a Slicing Pie company is likely to spend less cash before they fail and, b -
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