Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2014

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. entrepreneur funding IPO reverse merger Stock Exchange' Marty Zwilling.

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Scott Edward Walker

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Accordingly, each founder should carefully review any agreements with his prior employer and the employee handbook to determine if there are any provisions that may give the prior employer rights to the startup’s IP. Founders should also make sure that when they leave their prior employer they don’t take anything with them (e.g.,

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IP Software Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property 40

Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

Company culture is defined as the shared values, beliefs and practices of company employees including management. Company culture changes as the employees in the business change, as management makes strategic decisions and as the business environment shifts. Look for common employee behaviors.

Small Business 87

Small Business CPA Government North America 87

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

7:01) The importance of both customer and employee experience, brand building, and pivoting to anticipate the new normal that's coming. (9:33) 18:21) Carl on optimism and what he did as head of stores at Home Depot post-Katrina to take care of customers and employees, including selling products out of the back of a truck via an IOU system.

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Up and Running

JULY 18, 2014

Typically a C Corporation is a good idea when: You need to raise equity, to maximize medical deductions or you plan on using multiple classes of stock. If you lived in California but had a Nevada LLC or Corporation and conducted your day-to-day activities in California you would be required to foreign register that business in California.

Small Business 87

Small Business LLC Nevada Software Review 87

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. Stock Quotes. If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Employee Benefits. Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. Jumpstart wasnt much at the time, just four employees working from home offices. During the first Internet boom, companies that provided services to tech start-ups were all too happy to work for stock. Financing A Small Business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2015

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. This approach is not for entrepreneurs already out of money.

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Merger OTC IPO Due Diligence 120

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

OK, you would own 0.25% of the stock. Now … these are stock options and not restricted stock so you’ll likely be taxed at a long-term capital gains rate. In California that averages around 42.5% Stock vests for 4 years. Ventro was trading at $8 billion on sub $2 million of revenue. Sorry bud.

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Berkonomics

MAY 4, 2017

I had that thrill when a student at the Richard Petty Stock Car School of Driving at a motor speedway in California. But that method, although good for employee morale, is imprecise as a tool of measurement and should be relegated to a supporting role for you. Have you ever driven a car that had no speedometer?

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Metrics California Stock Matching 106

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

From California, to Illinois, and New York many of the largest U.S. The most common way for a public hospital to become part of a larger health system (whether community nonprofit, faith based, or for-profit) is by using a lease structure, rather than an outright sale of stock or assets.

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Determine the allocation of equity among co-founders, early employees or other service providers, and future contributors as applicable, as well as the vesting schedule , if any, that will apply. Make escrow arrangements for restricted stock (i.e., Pick a name for the new legal entity (e.g., Newco, Inc.”) Yes, it’s a mouthful.

Intellectual Property 139

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Delaware Stock 139

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The way to getrich from a startup is to maximize the companys chances of succeeding,not to maximize the amount of stock you retain. The problem is, for the company to exist, you have todecide who the founders are, and how much stock they each have. They get the same kind of stock and get diluted the same amount in futurerounds.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 27, 2011

Or what if we have another stock market collapse or if they shoot down a plane over California? ME: Of course getting tied up with that might distract you from other growth opportunities, and sometimes buyers don’t like that you’re dependent on another company for revenue. Do you prefer Deal B?

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Sales Term Sheet Stock Deal Structure 235

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

Take a look at the other realtors and brokerages in the area to determine what your competition is doing in the marketplace, and take stock of how these existing businesses are approaching things. Your business location, facilities, equipment, and what kind of employees you’ll need are in this section. Operating plan. Financial plan.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

An employee at Red Wagon Creamery serves up a scoop. From the beginning and all along the way, careful planning has guided the business from revenues of $35,000 in 2011, to $400,000 in 2014, and estimates of $700,000 for 2015. Increased revenue has gone hand-in-hand with public acclaim. Add seven to 10 employees.

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Oregon Prospectus Southern California California 60

Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

But without sales there is no revenue, and without revenue there is no company. All the strategic thinking in the world won’t make up for a missed revenue plan. If sales revenue and profits are high enough, we could take the company public or sell it, and the stock would be worth more than the paper it was printed on.

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Silicon Valley RSS Non-Compete California 130

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

John Jantsch: We haven’t talked about employees. Again, I know you’re working with maybe a lot of solopreneurs, but so maybe if it’s even the virtual, part-time employee, where do you see employee issues coming up in the legal space? States don’t agree with states, and California does everything first.

Small Business 86

Small Business Non-Compete Intellectual Property New York City 86

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. iOS App Store revenue still dwarfs Google Play’s, but the challenger is catching up fast. ” The stock traded at about $12.10

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. The final straw came when I asked the latest 25-year old a simple ‘yes / no’ question related to stock options.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

You see, part of my HomeAway compensation is in the form of Expedia stock ( $EXPE ), so it is in my personal interest to fill our talent pipeline with the absolute best product management candidates the world over. customers, other employees, books, blogs, social media, news?—?and SO, WHAT EXACTLY IS A PRODUCT MANAGER? (You

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2010

We are not talking about a low-level employee tossing an extra receipt into his expense report. Every pension fund, every retiree, every charitable organization, every employee who joins and is compensated via stock options. If revenues aren’t high enough, you’ll be forced to lay-off hard working, valued employees.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Each circle represents one of the fifty largest technology companies in the city, the size of each circle determined by the number of the company’s employees. The largest tech employer, according to SFBT, is Salesforce.com with 4,000 employees as of January 2014 (an increase of a thousand from one year earlier).

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

For example, a classic example of the conflicting interests of management and investors, which an independent board member can help mediate, is the approval of equity grants to management and employees. You need to hire N diverse employees or add N diverse board members, where N is greater than one! But get real.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

With YC I ended up as a co-founder of a startup, met amazing people, lived in California, made mistakes, learned from them, and saw what it really takes to succeed.” I was reddit’s first employee about 2 months later,” Chris tells me. Twitter Rolls Out Clickable Stock Symbols, Or Cashtags. Why Social Media Endangers Our Future.

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