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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

The firm attracts deal flow by promising a decision (positive or negative) in under 2 weeks, with minimal paperwork and without repeating due diligence. Another example is Correlation Ventures ($300M+ AUM), a VC firm which co-invests in financings with at least one other new outside VC. 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

Building out your own network of other Angel or Seed investors increases the quality of your deal flow. However, if a company is not going so well is there any way you can help engineer an acquihire or potentially sell off some of the company’s IP on the way out. In addition to that very few startups only raise once.

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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. 1: Find a Simple Idea.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

Both Sides of the Table

He’ll usually go first because oftentimes he receives a deal flow through a friend who’s already committed. TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) : network transfer protocol, basically it defines requirements for network communications. Terms for less technical people.