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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. For a very small fee they can get your Delaware C corp registration, make sure that you have IP protection and ensure you didn’t make an early bumbling mistakes that you’ll pay for dearly in the next 7-10 years of hard work.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

– Encourage founders to turn to other founders and their broader community as resources, not just the VC’s own staff. The firm attracts deal flow by promising a decision (positive or negative) in under 2 weeks, with minimal paperwork and without repeating due diligence. This evolves the VC from a server to a router.

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Insights from the Most Active Investor in Silicon Valley

ReadWriteStart

As for the output: you’re becoming customers of startups, you’re co-developing ideas, you’re investing, and you’re acquiring with the startup community. The Deal Flow Session. The model that’s worked consistently is the deal flow session. The only time that’s not a mistake is when that IP is strategic.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

It would be helpful to get a California standard employee manual, employee contract/agreements, IP ownership release to company, and confidentiality. Ted: Great service to the startup community! As a community we can achieve a lot. They are word docs so the.doc extension should work. Will try and fix today. Great effort!

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