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Equity Structure for technical lead?
2 points by tossit052122 on June 22, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
I am looking for some help here and am just wondering what the opinions of others are who have been in my situation before.

In this scenario I was approached to be a technical lead on a project. I am in a unique position in that I do not need the cash and I think the concept could be very good though obviously I will not work for strictly equity.

I have owned and been part of the sale of my own company previously but have never been brought into a project where I was not the person structuring the deal before, so my question is what should I definitely ask for in the deal and what should I avoid?

Restricted stock is obviously high on my list and I was thinking of an upfront payment for server equipment costs that I may incur in the upcoming weeks as well.

I am just wondering what sort of structure I should be expecting and what I should be looking for both good and bad

Thanks!



Why would you incur any costs? Surely the company will pay for servers etc.?

Weird.




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