Are web studios and freelance teams participating in startups? (attempt to figure it out)

Recently, an increasing number of questions revolving around the same topic.

• From acquaintances working in business: “I have an idea for a new project, could you recommend me a team that would want and could take up this project?”
• From the participants of the Weekend : “We would like to do such a project, but we ourselves are not developers - could you advise whom to contact?”
• From web studios: “Here we work, we make sites for customers, but for this work we get money once, and that’s it. We could make the same efforts to create a startup. If he shoots, then it will be more interesting for us. How could we work together? ”
• From freelancers: “Yes, we already do what we like. But I want to do something promising, however, we still do not have our own ideas. And all sorts of startups that need fast and high-quality development run past you. How could we participate? ”

Accordingly, the topic can be formulated as follows. On the one hand there are non-developers with ideas, on the other hand, teams of qualified developers. And there are still incomprehensible things for me ...

1. In this case, can authors of ideas and teams agree on mutually acceptable conditions?
   • What can be the conditions of participation in the project for authors and developers? There may be a conflict related to the fact that each of the parties will consider that its contribution to the project is greater than that of the partner. This conflict can occur immediately. To make matters worse, it can manifest itself at a time when an investor with real money looms on the horizon.
   • How much will developers be able to devote sufficient time to participating in this project? How much will their current customers and the need to earn current money interfere with the planned work on a startup?
   • How big are the risks that the development team will use the results and developments in their work that is not related to a startup? As an extreme option: how great are the risks that the development team will simply launch its own similar project, created on the basis of these developments?
2. Will such a tandem be interesting for future investors who can invest in the resulting project?
   • Investors constantly claim that they are not investing in an idea, but in a team.
   • Are they ready to consider the web studio or the whole team of freelancers as project participants, given that only part of the company's employees (team members) will really (constantly) work on this startup?
   • Will they strive to divide the share of developers in the project into two parts: 1) a web studio as a “seed investor" of the project and 2) the future team of the project itself - developers who will work further on the project?
   • How acceptable is the situation for a web studio (a team of freelancers) in which some of the employees in the future can go into a separate project? And will it not cause a desire to allocate people to a startup according to the residual principle, that is, not “stars” whom it will be a pity to lose, but exactly the opposite?

First of all, I would like to understand the position of web studios and freelancer teams in relation to the problem I described. Do such teams have a desire to participate in startups? What conditions would they be prepared to consider? What other questions arise?

You can discuss issues in the comments, but I would like to ask representatives of web studios and teams of freelancers to take part in a small survey , the results of which I will share here on Habré.

We will deal with the position of investors later - if it turns out that the teams have a fundamental interest.