Startup Company Lawyer
JULY 20, 2009
If there is any IP created and there is more than one founder, then incorporating an entity and assigning IP to the entity is important. Otherwise, if a founder leaves before incorporation and IP has not been assigned to the other founder or an entity, then use of IP created by the former founder may be problematic.
www.seriesseed.com
DECEMBER 9, 2012
Long term capital gains possible for early exit. It would be helpful to get a California standard employee manual, employee contract/agreements, IP ownership release to company, and confidentiality. Locks in rights, preferences and priviledges of the stock. Investors get stockholder rights (as opposed to being mere creditors).
Start Up Blog
JUNE 6, 2019
Both income taxes and capital gains taxes. But the items aren’t real (brands and IP) and don’t exist in the real world – they live in the ether to purely move money around. This was a seismic shift from where we had been and it has defined the government economic playbook. Regulations on businesses.
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