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Do It Right The First Time: Avoiding “Janitorial” Legal Work

Gust

Nevertheless, choosing to defer basic corporate housekeeping items can be disastrous in some circumstances, as when the failure to spend a few thousand dollars on legal fees to clarify IP ownership and equity arrangements comes back to bite a successful company to the tune of millions of dollars on the eve of a liquidity event. Good stuff!

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Start-up Tips: Identifying Intellectual Property, Simplified

YoungUpstarts

I’ve attended many IP seminars and conferences conducted specifically for businesses and they are generally always about Patents. read the title of an article in a prominent newspaper when they were talking of how the trademark SRK was advertised in the Trademarks Journal! by Navarre Roy , Senior Associate with Selvam and Selvam.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

It would be helpful to get a California standard employee manual, employee contract/agreements, IP ownership release to company, and confidentiality. Standard 1-way/bi-lateral NDA's, standard templates for an employee manual, employee contract/agreements, IP ownership release to company are on my wish-list too.

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Filing a Charter Is Not a Startup Incorporation

The Startup Lawyer

I’ve noticed a lot of recent articles promoting that a startup can “ skip the lawyer &# and incorporate via an online service. Sounds like a great deal, but there is more to a proper startup incorporation than simply filing the articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State. Want to vest your founders’ shares

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Do It Right The First Time, Part II: Visit the Doctor or House Call?

Gust

I’m reluctant to give legalistic disclaimers, but in this instance, I do need to emphasize that the material in this article is legal information , not legal advice. founders’ shares subject to vesting) and IRS filings for most favorable tax treatment of those shares. Pick a name for the new legal entity (e.g., Newco, Inc.”)

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

Tim Keane

I’ve attached a spreadsheet to this article to illustrate the issues in numbers. These include: ·       Vesting of Founder Stock.   However, I assume that the proposed business solves a real problem that people are willing to pay for and that it may be lest costly, more efficient, and IP-protected.

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

Allow the consultant to invest in your future success; in lieu of cash, grant them equity in the form of Non-qualified Options that vest based upon the attainment of quantifiable goals; keep in mind that adverse tax consequences may be associated with such equity grants, so check with your accountant before deploying this form of compensation.

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