Specifically, I'm wondering how much you'd offer a technical or non-technical co-founder for an idea that you're already working on? I'm technical and have been working on a startup for a couple months and still have a couple to go before a beta launch but have been thinking about trying to find a designer/ux co-founder to help out on the front-end.<p>I was originally thinking 60/40 but then started wondering what other people have done in this situation. So what have others done in this scenario?
If you give 40% to a designer, how much are you going to give to your biz dev person (when you need one in three months when your beta is done)?<p>If you both use equity to give to the biz dev and the biz dev requires more than 20% to retain, you just lost majority of your business. :(<p>40% is way too high for a designer.<p>Also, make damn sure you vest any equity you give out.<p>Remember, you can only give it away once, so do so sparingly.