How to rebalance founder equity by Ymir Vigfusson You and a number of your coder friends have come up with a genius idea. It’s so brilliant that you decide to turn it into a startup, Flugeldufel Inc. You can taste the excitement. You grow your team, heavy on the technical side of course because those are the people in your network. You dream of all the good you will do with your inevitable riches.  Life is grand. Cara putting in more work than Alice and Bob on Flugeldufel Inc. One of the many things to do when forming a company is to define the relative ownership. Through misplaced conflict avoidance, you have decided to divide the startup up into equal pieces. Everybody is contributing equally to the success of the company, right? You had been lucky enough to receive a grant or angel investment that let you and your team spend several months on just creating a prototype for the course-altering technology that will propel Flugeldufel . There were other more urgent