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Proposition HN: I will build your MVP if you pay me $8000 + 50% equity

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Proposition HN: I will build your MVP if you pay me $8000 + 50% equity

#1

Post by z-factor »

Obviously this is a response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5037694

If anyone from the investing side thinks that offer is a good deal, try the reverse of that:

You'll pay me $5000 to build the MVP of that idea you've been kicking around in your head for the last year. Once I'm done, I'm on to the next project. At this point, you'll take over and spend an additional $3000 to acquire enough users/customers for us to evaluate the project's likelihood of success. We split the resulting company 50-50, as equal co-founders.

I would not take the offer from the original submission, but I'm pretty serious about this one. The thing is, I have 15+ years of experience and given how efficient I am by now, I can make a good living just building people's MVP's, but 50% in every resulting company could make this so much better.

You can email your ideas to hn-offer@maluke.com

Edit: I will also consider offers with bigger initial payments but different equity splits.

Re: Proposition HN: I will build your MVP if you pay me $8000 + 50% equity

#3

Post by z-factor »

dragonbonheur wrote: post #2

Bold idea. But normally it's the people with money who get to dictate the terms and decide what they should do with their money. :)

Yes, of course. Still, given all the people who make the claim that the ideas do not matter, only execution does, how many will act on that belief?

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#5

Post by z-factor »

jspaur wrote: post #4

So I pitch the idea to the original offer (5037694) and get buy in. Then give you the 5k. I give you 50% of my 50% and I get 25% of the resulting company for acting as the idea broker. Hmmm ;) (just attempting to 'hack' this trend)

Well, my offer is to get 50%, not 25%. If you want to reduce my share you can increase the upfront payment, so I guess you can spend some money out of your pocket to get a portion of the company. This can get out of hand fast =)

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#6

Post by jspaur »

z-factor wrote: post #5
jspaur wrote: post #4

So I pitch the idea to the original offer (5037694) and get buy in. Then give you the 5k. I give you 50% of my 50% and I get 25% of the resulting company for acting as the idea broker. Hmmm ;) (just attempting to 'hack' this trend)

Well, my offer is to get 50%, not 25%. If you want to reduce my share you can increase the upfront payment, so I guess you can spend some money out of your pocket to get a portion of the company. This can get out of hand fast =)

I give you 50% of my company which only owns 50% of the parent? ;) (just incase it isn't obvious....i'm not actually planning on taking this up just joking around a little)

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#8

Post by z-factor »

jspaur wrote: post #6
z-factor wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, my offer is to get 50%, not 25%. If you want to reduce my share you can increase the upfront payment, so I guess you can spend some money out of your pocket to get a portion of the company. This can get out of hand fast =)

I give you 50% of my company which only owns 50% of the parent? ;) (just incase it isn't obvious....i'm not actually planning on taking this up just joking around a little)

I got that. Imagine this chain of 50% companies growing to some length. That could lead to a subprime mortgage crisis in a teapot. =)

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#10

Post by jspaur »

z-factor wrote: post #8
jspaur wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I give you 50% of my company which only owns 50% of the parent? ;) (just incase it isn't obvious....i'm not actually planning on taking this up just joking around a little)

I got that. Imagine this chain of 50% companies growing to some length. That could lead to a subprime mortgage crisis in a teapot. =)

Can you imagine the poor accountant who has to figure out the taxes?
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