lol

Gruber?

I still use sparrow; love that app.

Tough situation, and you never mix money and family, but I would give him a piece. Not because he thinks he deserves it, but because it's a nice gesture and he's probably right that he will probably be investing into it. I don't envy the decision you have to make, but if your relationship with him before this was great, I would personally let him in.

good luck

You could always grant him a piece, say 5%, with incentives that can be granted over time while certain company KPI's are met (you both could co-write these), pushing up closer to 10% in the event of some sort of fund raising he would be a part of. This covers a lot of your risk, and sets the stage for a solid working relationship. You need to manage both in this instance, which makes the relationship more complex, but could end up with you having your cake and eating it too.

Can this all be done at some later point in time?

edit: I just feel like there's a deeper, darker, emotional issue that needs to be addressed. My dad feels like it's my duty to include him because I've been spoiled all my life. I just see this as unfair. Also, I kind of want to do something on my own for once without having my father hovering above me.

If he agrees to it. Just out of curiosity, why do you care if he's doing this for less than altruistic reasons?

I see, but at the same time the conditions can always be modified later on, can't they?

Also, our relationship is borderline enmeshed/co-dependent. If he gets on board my company, he'll be able to control my decisions to a great extent.

I actually read everything on that page.

This is retarded. They are holding up their kids development to make a point; especially the older one. So while his classmates are whizzing around the internet, this kid has to work that much harder...

If they want to do this correctly, they should be providing dial-up and a 133MHZ computer for their 5 year old (they probably have an AOL cd kicking around too; lord knows they still sell their dial-up).

...I'm so pissed off I can't even put together a proper response to this.

The fact of the matter is that if your kids aren't looking up from their iphones, that's a parenting issue, not a technology one.

A case like this would be about 4 months (570 hours) or so of billable work by a good lawyer @ $350/hr or so.

Good lawyers cost quite a bit more than $350 an hour. Many of the "top" law firms charge north of $1000 an hour these days, below that $500-600/hour for a good quality lawyer is about what I'd expect. Fairly insane but it's one of those things where if losing is more painful than that price, you have no choice.

That's a lot of startups trying to change the world...

Satire or not; I want one and would imagine enough Android fanboys would want one enough to make this a legitimate market to do some R&D in.