Slicing Pie Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• 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 / 5 months 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: 11 months ago

• Seeking Advice: Starting a Company and Equity Distribution

  Take a look at slicingpie.com as others have suggested. Source: 11 months 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: 11 months 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: 11 months 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: about 1 year 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: about 1 year 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: about 1 year 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: over 1 year 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: over 1 year 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: over 1 year 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: over 1 year 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: over 1 year 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: over 1 year 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: over 1 year 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: over 1 year ago

• I think our startup will fail because of my partner

  Here is a reference to the method https://slicingpie.com/. Source: over 1 year 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: over 1 year 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: over 1 year ago

• Negotiating cofounder equity and cap tables?

  Slicing Pie is a great way to start thinking about it: https://slicingpie.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Startup Question? How do you split up equity?

  I took a class with him in college! He has an interactive site that comes with a nice UI for easy equity https://slicingpie.com Would definitely say that this isn't a one size fits all solution, but does the truck if you need something plug and play to get started. Source: almost 2 years ago