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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. I find that one of my best sources of deal flow is from lawyers.

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

David Teten

– Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. The firm attracts deal flow by promising a decision (positive or negative) in under 2 weeks, with minimal paperwork and without repeating due diligence. Previously posted on PEHub.

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Insights from the Most Active Investor in Silicon Valley

ReadWriteStart

The Deal Flow Session. The model that’s worked consistently is the deal flow session. Deal flow is a specifically targeted, curated, matchmaking session between a problem area for a large, Fortune 100 company and the startup ecosystem. The only time that’s not a mistake is when that IP is strategic.

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How Investors Can Bring More Than Just Money To The Table

YoungUpstarts

Entrepreneurs, business owners, senior managers at large corporations. Building out your own network of other Angel or Seed investors increases the quality of your deal flow. Plus, founders and entrepreneurs talk. Chances are if you are backing startups you have had some level of success in your career.

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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. Standard 1-way/bi-lateral NDA's, standard templates for an employee manual, employee contract/agreements, IP ownership release to company are on my wish-list too. This is great!

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How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

ReadWriteStart

Flips, on the other hand, thrive on trends: what better time for an entrepreneur to create a startup than when valuations are up, investments are quick, exits are plenty and deal flow is increase? However, this will impact the value of your IP. These are the times when there is more demand for startups. Create Buzz.

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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. 0:28:00) & (0:31:27).