What makes you think that it's going to be easier to get a dedicated, driven hacker with cash (which you don't have yet), rather than with stock (which you could issue right now) ?
> would it be hard finding ourselves a hacker in return for the same percent or even more of the company stock as us?
As each of you individually (meaning the hacker gets 33%), or as each of you together (meaning the hacker gets 50%) ?
Besides the design, what are you and your brother going to contribute, going forward?
I ask, because 2 designers for 1 hacker sounds like a lopsided ratio.