Co-Founder Disputes

Why does your co-founder want you to leave?

Sounds like your cofounder invested $10k and realized you didn't make a comparative contribution. You can promise the world, but people have lives/better investments to move on to.Just move on and chalk it up to experience.

Does your cofounder know that you don't want to be a part of the company in the future?

Talk with him,and say "That's not working for me in a long term" and pay him some cash to go.That's what i did.No way to be with him anymore.If he is not a good fit ,if he stays,that will make you very sick and will make every day a hell.Better to fail alone or succed alone as he is not the rigth person to be a co-founder.

I am going to say something that you my have trouble reading or hearing..You waited too long to handle the cofounder developer problem. Cut your losses now and get your second wind and attack the other startup ideas in your mind

Have you talked to your cofounders about it? If not, maybe you should. If you can't, then quit.

get rid of co-founder, create a new project and try again.You should iron this kind of issue out long before you start approaching people for capital, it is a recipe for disaster.Also, most VC's are pretty savvy in picking up a significant difference in motivation between co-founders and it is a very big red flag for them to invest in you.Get out while you can.

I think Max Levchin once said something like "If there's doubt about your co-founder, there's no doubt." Meaning that the moment you have doubts about your co-founder, you should break it off and cut your losses. Hope this provides some perspective.

What are you talking about!!! You call yourself a startup, you call your partner a co-fouder and at the same time you are bashing him. This means things are not well at your end. If you are soo disturbed with his attitude then the best way would be to seperate yourself from him otherwise not very sure how good your startup is going to be at the end. I think co-founder is one of "the" most important factors in a startup and you should start only when you actually find one and finding one means be

With my startup just last week we concluded a deal where one ot he co-founders lost his substantial stake in the company and retained a very small percentage of the company. We've been working on the company full time for a year now.The mistake we made was that we didn't make a shareholder agreement in the beginning when we started out that would clearly outline the responsibilities of each person and what they would have to do in order to keep their equity stake. As the company has