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This is a post by Joel Spolsky. The original post is linked at the bottom.

This is such a common question here and elsewhere that I will attempt to write the world's most canonical answer to this question. Hopefully in the future when someone on answers.onstartups asks how to split up the ownership of their new company, you can simply point to this answer.

The most important principle: Fairness, and the perception of fairness, is much more valuable than owning a large stake. Almost everything that can go wrong in a startup will go wrong, and one of the biggest things that can go wrong is huge, angry, shouting matches between the founders as to who worked harder, who owns more, whose idea was it anyway, etc. That is why I would always rather split a new company 50-50 with a friend than insist on owning 60% because "it was my idea," or because "I was more experienced" or anything else. Why? Because if I split the company 60-40, the company is going to fail when we argue ourselves to death. And if you ju

	/**
	* Retrieves all the rows in the active spreadsheet that contain data and logs the
	* values for each row.
	* For more information on using the Spreadsheet API, see
	* https://developers.google.com/apps-script/service_spreadsheet
	*/
	function readRows() {
	var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
	var rows = sheet.getDataRange();
	var numRows = rows.getNumRows();

	// Includes functions for exporting active sheet or all sheets as JSON object (also Python object syntax compatible).
	// Tweak the makePrettyJSON_ function to customize what kind of JSON to export.

	var FORMAT_ONELINE = 'One-line';
	var FORMAT_MULTILINE = 'Multi-line';
	var FORMAT_PRETTY = 'Pretty';

	var LANGUAGE_JS = 'JavaScript';
	var LANGUAGE_PYTHON = 'Python';

	# Author: Pieter Noordhuis
	# Description: Simple demo to showcase Redis PubSub with EventMachine
	#
	# Update 7 Oct 2010:
	# - This example does not appear to work with Chrome >=6.0. Apparently,
	# the WebSocket protocol implementation in the cramp gem does not work
	# well with Chrome's (newer) WebSocket implementation.
	#
	# Requirements:
	# - rubygems: eventmachine, thin, cramp, sinatra, yajl-ruby

	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
	#
	# Description: This file holds all my BASH configurations and aliases
	#
	# Sections:
	# 1. Environment Configuration
	# 2. Make Terminal Better (remapping defaults and adding functionality)
	# 3. File and Folder Management
	# 4. Searching
	# 5. Process Management