Startups: How to Fairly Slice the Equity Pie

Mike Moyer, serial entrepreneur and author of Slicing Pie Handbook: Perfectly Fair Equity Splits for Bootstrapped Startups, joins Talking Business Now host Kelly Scanlon to discuss fair equity models for startups and early-stage companies. Tune in to find out: The basics of the Slicing Pie model. Whether the person who has the most risk in the startup always has the controlling interest. The pitfalls of equity being used as compensation. What pre-revenue equity allocation is. Why allocating equity must be based on a set of rules. Why allocating equity is a "rolling" endeavor, not a static one. Moyer is a serial entrepreneur who has started several companies from scratch, including Cappex.com. He's joined start-up companies, helped others start companies, raised millions of dollars of start-up capital and helped sell start-up companies. Mike shares his entrepreneurial experience by teaching Entrepreneurship at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business CONNECT WITH MIKE MOYER Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/SlicingPie Twitter Link: https://twitter.com/GruntFunds LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/company/slicingpie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices