[joshuajomiller]

What are you suggesting? Is the idea to allow potential users to put some money down, or to show interest before a startup idea is fully executed? If so, you can do that pretty well with a landing page and a sign up form.

[tchock23]

Yeah, OP wasn’t clear on whether this is for equity or just pre-launch indications of interest from prospective customers. Would be helpful to clarify since most of the comments here so far have focused on equity implications.