Slicing Pie Reviews and Details

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• Ask HN: How would you fund a tech cooperative owned by workers and users?

  Lot of work happened in the last 5-10 years in the web3 space around tech-enabled participatory governance, with some funding backdrop because it's on top of a crypto platform. ENS is kind of the poster child https://docs.ens.domains/learn/protocol/ In terms of participation incentive models I like pointing people to slicing pie. The concept is simple enough and can learned from their free materials. Helpful... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Ask HN: Easy way to issue equity if you don't have a (Delaware) C-corp

  You could try https://slicingpie.com/, but in practice I found it burdensome. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Has anyone actually started a successful tech company as a side hustle?

  Since we were new to one another, we used the Slicing Pie methodology and monitored one another for progress and reasonableness in their reporting of time spent. Once we realized that we were both consistently committed to the project, we did a static split of equity and were on our way. Source: over 2 years ago

• Seeking Advice: Starting a Company and Equity Distribution

  Take a look at slicingpie.com as others have suggested. Source: over 2 years ago

• Startup taking on partner/co-founder with Sales/CEO function - advice on sharing it

  - ABSOLUTELY do vesting with one year cliff as others mentioned. Do NOT commit to 49% of the get-go just in case he has a change of heart in a few months... An alternative option is the Slicing Pie approach: https://slicingpie.com/ . Slicing pie is more complicated however it is fairer and will allow you to add more people. Source: over 2 years ago

• How does royalties/revenue share work exactly?

  The slicing pie model might work (https://slicingpie.com/) for you depending on how far you are along. I am using this for a rev share project and we all feel it covered things pretty well. Source: over 2 years ago

• My business partner owns 22% but wants 50% control.

  There's a good book that helps called Slicing Pie. They have a website now on how to disburse equity based on how much each of you contributes. Slicing Pie. Source: over 2 years ago

• New team working on a startup idea - How to approach the equity question?

  I do not have a clear answer for you, but I agree that if there was a way to pay your contributors rather than give them equity then that's probably ideal. If you end up going down the equity route, I wonder if this could help: https://slicingpie.com/. Also there is a book called The Founder's Dilemma by Noam Wasserman. Source: over 2 years ago

• How would you progress our app if you were us

  You could also look into using something like https://slicingpie.com/ to pay someone in equity on a per task/feature/bug basis. Source: over 2 years ago

• How to calculate the amount of equity to offer employees at a startup

  You could check out https://slicingpie.com/ - they have a method which turned into a tool, and nice content explaining. Source: almost 3 years ago

• How to deal with uneven workload with cofounders

  I was in a startup with this exact same scenario. On my next startup, we used Slicing the Pie. Read the methodology, it really works. We tracked our equity this way for a year, then sold the business. Everyone was happy. You don’t need to buy any products to understand the methodology (I’ve never bought their products). https://slicingpie.com/. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Early stages of startup, how do I share equity with co-founders?

  Guessing future value almost never works out as people plan. There's a way called Slicing Pie that has a lot of advantages and may be woth exploring. Source: almost 3 years ago

• My cofounder had the idea. I’m building pretty much everything. What should I give him?

  Https://slicingpie.com/ —— this site might be helpful for you. Source: almost 3 years ago

• How to “test” out a potential co-founder?

  There are some really good dynamic equity models available now that you can use in this scenario. Check out slicingpie.com. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Girlfriend and I started a business together. She now wants 50% ownership though I finance the company and do a lot of the heavy lifting. How should I counter?

  Try https://slicingpie.com/ its an operating agreement that has a standardized way to value time, effort and money put in (or taken out) so everyone gets the share they deserve. Source: about 3 years ago

• Me and my friend are working on an app/business how do we go about splitting it? Properly and fairly..

  I had similar needs we are looking at Slicing Pie to track equity based on activity. Source: about 3 years ago

• Advice on Giving Equity to Co-Founders

  Slicing Pie (the book) has some good ideas for this. They have a calculator too, though I've not used it. Source: about 3 years ago

• I think our startup will fail because of my partner

  Here is a reference to the method https://slicingpie.com/. Source: about 3 years ago

• [Hobby][Rev-share] Unity dev looking for team / colloborators

  Let’s use something like Slicing Pie, (https://slicingpie.com/) basically which means ownership is based on contribution, Those who contribute more will has more ownership + copyrights. This is the first time i’m posting on something like this. So feel free to let me know if you have better methods for rev-share. Also I believe signing a small agreement in the beginning might be handy. Source: about 3 years ago

• How can I hire people to work with me when money is super low and we're not even launched yet?

  Give people credit for the value they're putting in: whether it's their time, $$, intellectual property, anything. I really like the Slicing Pie way of figuring it out: https://slicingpie.com. Source: about 3 years ago

• Negotiating cofounder equity and cap tables?

  Slicing Pie is a great way to start thinking about it: https://slicingpie.com/. Source: about 3 years ago