[greendestiny]

I appreciate the frank dissection of your startup part way through. Just a quick question, you had some guy do several months work for you and you didn't pay him anything?

[joe]

I should probably have been more clear about this--no one has ever received any type of salary. Our media production side of things has generated some money (unrelated to the startup) and that has allowed for us to be paid a little (i.e. $500 a month) here and there.

Thus my beef about venture capital.

[greendestiny]

But its your company, this guy you brought in got nothing. That kind of shit is very bad karma indeed.

[joe]

Agreed. In our defense, he was (is) a friend and got the same deal we all did when we agreed to work on it.

[icey]

In your article you mentioned he got no pay and no equity... Is that the deal that you guys got?