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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

Step 2 (as opposed to version 1.1) » 02/25/2010. Posted by: toby | 03/01/2010 at 09:52 PM. Posted by: Ted Wang | 03/01/2010 at 10:45 PM. Posted by: Yokum | 03/01/2010 at 11:30 PM. Posted by: Walt | 03/02/2010 at 02:43 AM. Posted by: Dan Greenberg | 03/02/2010 at 05:43 AM. Blog Archives.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

Bottom Up Market Sizing » January 12, 2010. Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues. These include: ยท       Vesting of Founder Stock.

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How To Launch a Startup and Avoid Ending-up in Jail

Scott Edward Walker

Not only are there key contractual issues that must be buttoned-down (like vesting and IP assignment ), but also there is a minefield of laws and regulations that must be complied with. In short, employees must be paid at least the applicable minimum wage (and typically, at least semi-monthly).

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

We launched in January 2010 after burning through just $4k of cash. Doubtful we’d have access to such a rich employee pool any other way. Make sure you own all the IP created during this trial period, and make no promises for later. Vest, young man. Need to learn about IP, patents, etc.? No one funded us.

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CEO Friday: Why we donโ€™t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors. More comments at the end.

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