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When startup partners face different financial pressures

My co-founder and I are both working for equity only while we build our app, but she just inherited some money and I'm running out of my savings and might need to take a part-time job. We haven't talked about what happens if one of us can't commit full-time anymore, and I'm worried that bringing it up will make me seem less committed when really it's just about survival.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Equity partnerships require sustained financial sacrifice that may become unsustainable at different rates for different people.

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