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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re a startup and you don’t have a close relationship with a few law firms you’re really missing one of the most important relationships that any entrepreneur can have. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP.

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The Acquihire Market for Early Stage Startups is Ice Cold. One Better Strategy? Announce You’re For Sale.

Hunter Walker

“Worst case scenario we’ll sell to a larger startup or public company for about ~$1.5m Especially in the early days of mobile/iOS engineering, if you hired strong technical talent into your early stage company, you basically created an acquisition outcome floor. per engineer.” of the time my answer is no f **g way].

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

August 20, 2017: This is another in my series of posts all leading up to a book on Startup Decision Making. One of the most common mistakes I see in startups is making decisions that lose sight of the context , including the past, present, and future. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention.

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Startup Founder Agreements

blog.simeonov.com

I have been thinking a lot recently about how to apply agile development principles to investing and key aspects of startup development such as team building. The first post is about agile startup fundraising. The follow-on post is about agile startup team building. If you’ve read and liked these posts, let others know.

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The General Contractor for Startups

Austin Startup

I’m certainly a fan of this wave of attention to the startup world, but we must keep in mind that economists are reporting that the share of companies less than one-year-old in the United States has declined by almost half since the ATDC opened its doors. Startup founders had better be in much more of a hurry than that.

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