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run4, Thanks for the feedback. While I agree with you in principle, I find this hard to quantify. If we succeed, I will owe my success to the utility company fo
by ericb 19y ago
run4, Thanks for the feedback. While I agree with you in principle, I find this hard to quantify. If we succeed, I will owe my success to the utility company for providing potable water and my webhost for hosting my site. I'm not sure, if I use the success yardstick that way, whether it really leads to realistic compensation. It's as much about what the market will bear and going rate for a developer in some ways. That's why I'm fishing on here for more thoughts or norms.
- run4yourlives 19y agoYou're sharing value in something that can't possibly be defined yet. There is no market rate for that, that's my point. Web Designers don't get "x" value, because some designers might be as valuable as the founders, might actually be the founders or might just be a contract job. You've got a scale from 0% to 100% right there. The only thing you can really do is equate the risk/value proposition in a way that seems fair for the amount of risk they are putting in. Are they working without pay? Are they doing this part time? Are they making suggestions that are helping you to decide the direction of the company? All of these are variables that you need to weigh. Offering a piece of your company is a not normally a form of primary employee compensation. If you are looking at the designer as simply an employee, you'd be better off paying them, otherwise, you should IMO, not consider your designer as simply an employee. Does that make more sense?