>> and you both need to be contributing equally all the time
You lost me there. My wife and I have a 50/50 split on life, but we don't both contribute equally "all the time".
Sometimes one of us will go out to dinner with friends and have an awesome meal while the other one struggles to puts three snotty, sick kids to bed. Certainly not equal contribution that night.
The beautiful thing about a 50/50 split in any partnership -- be it a marriage or a startup -- is that you don't have to keep track of every nickel and dime of contribution.
That is a 50/50 partnership, it will eventually even out or it will probably fail. Sometimes in startups for whatever reason founders won't be putting in the same amount of work and it won't even up for the foreseeable long term.
You lost me there. My wife and I have a 50/50 split on life, but we don't both contribute equally "all the time".
Sometimes one of us will go out to dinner with friends and have an awesome meal while the other one struggles to puts three snotty, sick kids to bed. Certainly not equal contribution that night.
The beautiful thing about a 50/50 split in any partnership -- be it a marriage or a startup -- is that you don't have to keep track of every nickel and dime of contribution.