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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

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. This is a model used in at least one case by China’s third-largest private equity firm, China Science & Merchants Investment Management Group ($12 billion+ AUM), which funded in 2015 CSC Upshot, a $400m seed fund through AngelList.

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How Investors Can Bring More Than Just Money To The Table

YoungUpstarts

Entrepreneurs, business owners, senior managers at large corporations. Perhaps you know a Marketer, a Developer or Sales Manager that could fill a gap in one of the startups you back. Building out your own network of other Angel or Seed investors increases the quality of your deal flow. Cultivate Other Relationships.

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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. 2) People/companies who are solving the merchant problem of managing the influx of location-based services, increasing sales and repeat business. 3 things that excite Mark (1:18:06). Terms for less technical people.