Slicing Pie

Funding Your Company without Funds

De: Mike Moyer

Narrado por: Kevin Young

You and a partner go into business together and split the equity 50/50. You do all the work and your partner slacks off. He owns half your business - now what?

Slicing Pie outlines a process for calculating exactly the right number of shares each founder or employee in an early stage company deserves.

You will learn:

• How to value the time and resources an individual brings to the company relative to the contributions of others
• The right way to value intangible things like ideas and relationships
• What to do when a founder leaves your company
• How to handle equity when you have to fire someone
• Important issues to discuss with your lawyer
• Much more

Research shows that dynamic equity split models, like the one outlined in Slicing Pie, is the best way to avoid conflicts as the company grows. The new and improved Version 2.3 contains updated information about legal issues, idea valuation, retrofitting, and much more!

©2012 Michael Moyer (P)2014 Michael Moyer

Thought Provoking/Nice Alternatives

Perfect length, thought provoking ways to handle equity buildup. will need to send a few questions about sweat equity for book 2!

Great ideas, concise and to the point

Great ideas, well told with sufficient examples, concise and to the point. Y O

Must read for starters

I would say this is a must-read for starters and anyone looking to apply creative financing to new business products or ventures

Amazing Concept

This is a no brainier way to go into partnerships. Leaves everything on the table and minimizes future skirmishes.

clarity how to reward contribution

Mike brings clarity and a strategy to reward those who help build based on their contribution rather than negotiation ability and timing. won't be popular with some but for me I now have a way to reward my team where they can earn their ownership in what we are building. recommend reading this before you start inviting you team members to join.

it is a good book for startups

it is a good book for startups it is a good book for startups it is a good book for startups

Mike gets the MVP award!

This book is one of those books that you think you're going to get something good out of it so you go ahead and order it and then once you get into it you realize it has even more gems than you originally thought.

This book outlines the only fair way to distribute equity and encourages everyone in the business to work towards a common goal and takes the tension out of the negotiations over splits.

I had some questions after I read the book and was able to email Mike and he responded within an hour. Later I was able to have a quick conversation with him on the phone that was incredibly helpful. I am deeply impressed by Mike and this book.

This book should be required reading for every entrepreneur in a start up. Don't hesitate. Buy this book!

A must for any starting entrepreneur

Mike Moyer does an excellent job at conveying often complex principles into layman's terms. His honest, transparent, and equitable approach to start-up establishes a solid foundation for anyone considering a new entrepreneurial endeavor. Like he says, "Life isn't fair", but Slicing the Pie should give you an advantage .

For me as a German: groundbreaking

If you could sum up Slicing Pie in three words, what would they be?

Startups done better.

What about Kevin Young’s performance did you like?

He kept me engaged and focussed throughout the book, even in the case examples which I sometimes find hard to follow along without a pen and paper at hand (which I did not have available, sitting in the car when I listened to this book).

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes - I listened to it all in one sitting. 4 hours of my life well invested.

Any additional comments?

The challenge now will be to implement something like a grunt fund based dynamic equity split concept in Germany - whose IRS counterpart tends to err, shall we just say, more towards the conservative side of things. But then life wouldn't be such a great journey without challenges to overcome and problems to solve.

So simple and fair

I have listen to slice of pie twice. This is since the idea for a new company has ever come to my mind and before I even organize my team. I am almost as excited about the grant fund and dynamic equity split as I am about my product that we have already invented now. We have a working prototype and I have loved as my engineer and designer has accrued probably a large portion of the pie. As our second and third phases roll out myself and others will have a greater role to play and so that dynamic equity will shift. It's beautifully simple. As we begin to integrate the fourth phase of our pie we will get to bring back our engineer and designer to help mass produce. It's an exciting venture and this book has made it much more simple.