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13 Critical Small Business Legal Requirements to Start a Business

Up and Running

Intellectual property (IP) is anything created by the human intellect that’s protected by the law from unauthorized use by other people. If you’re unsure whether you should file for IP, consult with an IP attorney for professional guidance. Develop a founders agreement. Secure your intellectual property.

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3 Ways Structure Can Take Your Tech Startup To New Heights

YoungUpstarts

Whether it’s burn rates, balance sheets, or P&L and cash flow statements, financial documents say a lot about your operations — and you need to be able to speak the language. Ideally, tech startup founders stay on till the very end. Look no further than Google and Oracle , and you’ll see that no company is immune from IP impasses.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley?

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

My co-founder and other management team members wanted us to hold off and see whether we could get the deal done at a higher price. If it’s a biz deal you might care about IP protection, revenue share, investment commitments to joint marketing – whatever. You know that every turn of the legal documents can add weeks.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

This is done by enriching transaction data points such as name, email address, and billing and shipping address with around 2,000 extra data points, such as an IP latency check to measure the real distance from the user, IP connection type, distance between key strokes, and email name match.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

Both Sides of the Table

In my ongoing quest to get you good transcripts of the wonderful interviews we’ve done in the past, I present you with one amazing interview here with Tom McInerney – a friend, co-investor, former entrepreneur turned angel investor and “wizard of Oz&# behind the scenes at the uber hot startup Klout.

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Signed Term Sheet

ithacaVC

I use the term “pro forma” as often there are equity issues that need to be resolved prior to the deal closing that are NOT currently reflected in the company’s current cap table (like planned grants to advisors, co-founder true ups, etc.). Get the investment documents all negotiated and close the deal in January.