Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

As a reminder, this post is not legal advice, it’s not even advice. It is painful to read… Well done rotating off of the legal retrenchment reaction. tags: business startup entrepreneurship interesting people legal plagiarism investment funding strategy) [.] See part one for the first time it happened.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Management , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged balanced scorecard , executive compensation , startup , venture capital. ← 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Survey Results More “Open Source&# Legal Tools → Comments are closed. Bookmark the permalink.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Tags: startup cto job description startupcto. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09. Company registered in England and Wales #5189175. Highlights: What do you need to raise investment?

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

No, I wont "just sign it" without having a lawyer look it over, because its a legally binding document whether a lawyer reads it or not. But for individual entrepreneurs who just have a good idea and big dreams, its easy to be misled into thinking that walking in the door with a fancy legal document makes you look professional or "serious".

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. tags: hiring. This article is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended to offer specific legal advice. You should consult your legal counsel regarding any threatened or pending litigation. advertising. assessments. coldcalling. corporaterecruiting.

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

The investment won’t work if you spend $80K on legal fees preparing investment documents that include things like registration rights and all those other terms that will never get used. On the investment side, it means putting in less money, being more on-par with management in terms of rights and preferences, having less control.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

the legal acumen to stay on the right side of the law. Tags: business vs. technical , founders , meetups , realistic expectations , recruiting. Granted, the above scenario doesn’t take into account. the marketing to get potential customers to use that weekend website. the accounting to make sure the numbers all add up.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups and tagged Accounting , Banking , design , Engineering , marketing , Outsourcing. When you outsource…at least in the early days…it matters little wheter you pick a local bank or a global one. Again…another nobrainer unless you’re LegalZoom.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

link] Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » If you have an idea for a startup, talk about the idea with everyone. [.] Then again, there’s a difference between publishing a description of the idea on your website and simply announcing a name and perhaps a tag line. link] Twitted by diego_s. [.] link] Yaniv Nizan.

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Altgate

APRIL 12, 2010

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged Boston , HBS student business plan contest , startup. ← More “Open Source&# Legal Tools 104 Year Old Video of San Francisco → Comments are closed. Bookmark the permalink.

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Altgate

JANUARY 21, 2010

I think this is great for end users both personal and professional, but I think it is going to seriously erode legal industry revenue in the long term. It’s a Terms of Service and Privacy Policy generator by Legal River. It’s silly to pay by the hour to have the same documents generated over and over.

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Entrepreneurs often believe their startup company faces legal threats from only external sources. Instead of worrying solely about some 3rd-party stealing your business idea or a “slip and fall,&# your startup company’s top legal priority should be the reduction of its internal legal threats: co-founder disputes.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Find strong legal council, and properly document the company early on. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Startups and tagged agreement , founder , startup. .&# It’s a nice post on the hazards of flying loose with founder agreements in the early days (think ConnectU lawsuit against Facebook ). Have a founders agreement.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Prior to launch, the only expensive professional services which you’ll buy will be your legal advice and accountancy services. Practically this means that you’ll outsource (most likely off-shore) your design and development, you’ll rent your servers, you won’t have an office and you’ll have no salary. Why bootstrap? Best of luck!

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

SeriesSeed.com Series Seed Financing Documents Blog Home Documents Blog Archives Subscribe 09/02/2010 Version 2.0 These documents have been prepared for informational purposes and is not intended to (a) constitute legal advice (b) create an attorney-client relationship (c) be advertising or a solicitation of any type. 

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caterina.net

OCTOBER 25, 2010

But we were pretty good at getting people to tag photos with what were in them. People adding tags, descriptions, titles and comments turned out to be better sources of metadata for those photos, and that metadata could then be used in interesting ways. Tags: startupcto. Christof Pfeiffer | January 17, 2010 9:52 AM.

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Altgate

JUNE 26, 2009

When dealing with medical records there are the legal issues of patients’ right to privacy so having an ability to de-identify or anonymize data is key. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Startups and tagged business , healthcare , i2b2 , medical records , National Institutes of Health , technology. Bookmark the permalink.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

In the short term, working over 21 hours continuously is equivalent to being legally drunk. But they dont think twice about putting the fate of this years silver bullet project into the hands of people who are impaired to the point of legal drunkenness due to lack of sleep. Archived at Mischievous Ramblings. Its ironic.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. The High-touch Legal Services® Blog • For Startup/Early-stage Companies » How Many Founders should a Company Have? - Mar 2, 2010 [.]

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Tags: startup programming language startupcto. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09. Company registered in England and Wales #5189175. Highlights: What do you need to raise investment?

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venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS The Option Pool Shuffle by Nivi on April 10th, 2007 “Follow the money card!&# – The Inside Man, Three-Card Shuffle Summary: Don’t let your investors determine the size of the option pool for you. Typical disclaimers about legal advice apply to this comment.

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blog.stackoverflow.com

APRIL 20, 2010

Posted by Jeff Atwood on April 13th, 2010 Filed under background 28 Comments « New 10k Feature: Inline Tagging Changes to Stack Exchange » Steve Wortham says: April 13th, 2010 at 12:17 pm Well done Jeff. Tags: startupcto. Your decision to go with OpenID has only helped OpenID develop into something great. 21 queries.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

In an IP licensing business, legal and finance are the sharp end of the stick. Sometimes it was the legal department crafting contracts so onerous I wouldn’t even sign it, let alone expect a customer to do so. The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank (tags: marketing business) [.] It varies by company and changes over time.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Container Documents In parallel to writing your functional spec, start the following container documents: Future ideas for the development of the system; Legal points you want to make sure that are included in the terms and conditions; Any design thoughts (include here screenshots of website designs you like); Patent ideas; Marketing ideas.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

It will probably be possible to eventually do this with an IMG tag, which means any webpage that can contain a user-supplied cat photo could ALSO contain a user-supplied remote code execution.). Your local jurisdiction may have legal requirements that you notify the people whose data just got exposed. Do you take credit cards?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

No legal muck. Trust me, once you’ve launched and achieved traction, you’ll have your pick of mentors, VCs, partners and all the legal expenses you need. 1 [link] meeblog » Blog Archive » starting up: focus on what matters most [.] Tags: startupcto. No phone system. No raising money. Read the full post here [.]

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

If you want contracts that hold up in court you’re going to drop serious coin with our friends in the legal profession. Expenses You Don’t Think of When Starting a Business | Software by Rob (tags: memori.us Costs range from $300-$1000 per year. Lawyer - Lawyers I’ve worked with run $250/hour and up. 34 Hamd on 01.08.09

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

.  What this tool really wants to evolve to is having an open, wiki-style back end where practitioners can change and comment on the myriad of options and verbiage which would keep the tool evergreen based on the best crowdsourced legal opinions. altgate » Blog Archive » Law Firm Wilson Sonsini Now Preparing … [.]

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jonpolygon.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

It is not surprising that we commonly find serif fonts used on legal documentation and san-serif on blogs. Trademarks and other Legal Considerations: It is important to find out who is using the name. It is possible to use archiving sites to delve deeper into the history of the usage of the names used on a particular site.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Their names are around but I would have to raid the garage archives. But what do you suggest in terms of legally protecting my idea before I explain it to a programmer/developer who can then just do it themselves and take ownership? Tags: startupcto. Mostly youll get excellent work done just by being FAIR and assuming nothing!

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www.buzzfeed.com

AUGUST 16, 2012

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