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Slicing Pie

Funding Your Business Without Funds

A dynamic, fair way to split startup equity among founders.

by Mike Moyer

Slicing Pie introduces a dynamic equity-split model for early-stage startups that have no cash to pay people. Contributions of time, money, and resources are converted into relative slices of a theoretical pie, so each participant ends up with a stake proportional to what they actually put in until the company can pay market rates.

Founder fallouts over equity are a leading cause of startup death. This book gives bootstrapped teams a concrete, defensible formula for dividing ownership fairly before any money is in the bank.

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