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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. Founded it as a California LLC but your potential VC wants a Delaware C-Corp? I find that one of my best sources of deal flow is from lawyers. He mostly covers Southern California. Disclosure: he’s my cousin.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

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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. Thanks again!

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

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He’ll usually go first because oftentimes he receives a deal flow through a friend who’s already committed. TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) : network transfer protocol, basically it defines requirements for network communications. Thomas says the maximum size of an angel round he’ll invest in is $2.5M.