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I've seen it, and have it running on my server in alpha.

it didn't.

thanks for the support benn.

She wasn't initially hired as an employee - it was more of a contract agreement to develop the beta, with the option to come on as a full partner if we were working well together. …

the non intuitive nature of some of the UI features. Instructional copy is written, but not implemented. Lack of help - again written, but not implemented. Lack of privacy settings…

29% can be reclaimed in a straightforward manner.

nostrademons, please re-read the original post. I never had 94% I was eventually ok with giving up founder level share, but expected founder level commitment. This is where the gap…

nostrademons I paid the 35% equity 8 months ago, only to have her quit when the going got tough.

She left because we ran out of money. Scope creep was limited. The company owns the IP - we did sign paperwork on that. In case it isn't clear, at the time I did agree to giving he…

I don't have any programming experience beyond BASIC as a 5th grader. Market research, ethnographic study, trying to raise more funding,(too early for VCs here, and there are not m…

I raised the funding, performed the market research, liased with many different health organisations, classifed the information in the database, wrote all the copy for the app, and…

pg, The idea was that always that she would be a full co-founder. We agreed on a low equity split initially because of the asymmetric risk we were taking. The idea was always to in…

The investment round was 20%, and I have a 45% stake.

Well, my monthly outgoing are $2000 a month, so it kinda feels garagelike to me.

"this is a set of circumstances where the developer had most of the leverage, you failed to recognize it and got burned" This is true to a degree. We agreed to the initial arrangem…

I had to take a salary, because I am 32 yr old experienced nurse and have monthly fixed costs that I can't get away from.

I can recover the extra 29%, as it was structured as an option.

no project contract was signed - I was naive and had met her through a mutual friend, so I thought I could trust her and we could save some money. There is a contract for the compa…

i am near Tulsa, Oklahoma. We have a prototype, but not one I would be able to release, as it needs a lot of user interface refining. It is an online web app service for patients w…

Looking for YC advice: I am the non technical co founder of a startup, which has been in development mode for 12 months. I took a $30,000 loan and raised some $160,000 in funding f…

I guess it depends on who your friends are, but mine have no clue. Part of the trouble is that awful name.

Thanks Erf The reason that I think it is actually useful is that although joe six pack may think that facebook, myspace, friendster and second life are all social networks and ther…

Why? I thought it was a useful, and amusing insight into the ridiculous nature of social networking, and ties in with a lot of stuff that has been talked about on HN (eg Matt Maroo…