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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

This article highlights their advice on issues ranging from financing to patent trolls: While startups may believe lawyers are too costly, working with one early on avoids potentially serious problems later. They also need to decide whether to structure terms as an equity deal or a convertible security deal.

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A primer on convertible notes, convertible securities, and equity

Hippoland

So, in the aggregate, it is possible that you may be required to pay as much as $30k-$50k to get an equity round done. For example, if a startup is raising $1m in a priced round, this means that the startup must find enough investors to in aggregate invest $1m into your company at specified terms within a certain time period.