About Founders Pie Calculator

You have a great business idea, you get your two best friends excited, and all three of you decide to start a company together. In your haste to get started, the three of you decided to divide the equity in thirds--it seemed the obvious and fair choice then. Six months later, one of the friends drop out entirely and the other is only peripherally involved. You're doing all the work now. Would it still be worth all your effort? Course: With this free Founder's Pie Calculator course and model, you'll learn the how to avoid this unfortunate, yet preventable situation. Through the course, you'll learn what you should and should not factor into your equity pie considerations and how to use a systematic method for calculating the founder's pie. In addition, you will also get a FREE Founder's Pie Calculator model (look in the Extras in Lecture 3-5) that we will walk you through with detailed examples. This course is intended as a tool, not as a "correct solution", for anyone who is thinking about or is in the process of forming a start-up with others. Deciding and agreeing on how to divide the initial equity pie is no trivial task, but this tool will help get the conversation going in the right path. Take this course, use the model and happy slicing! If you have any questions or suggestions for the course or model, please don't hesitate to let us know: [email protected] The content and the model behind this course is inspired by Frank Demmler's article "The Founder's Pie Calculator". With Frank's permission, we're making his original article, his article on founders share vesting, and his version of the founders pie calculator available for download in the "Extras" section of the first lecture: Frank's Founders Pie Calculator Article Frank's Founders Share Vesting Article Frank's Founders Pie Calculator