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You Don’t Need Delaware to Start Your Company

Startup Professionals Musings

It used to be true that “everyone” incorporated in Delaware due to its more favorable terms, but many of these terms simply don’t apply to startups, or the differences don’t exist anymore. Your startup automatically gets an intrastate securities law exemption. Your startup automatically gets an intrastate securities law exemption.

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Guns and Cyber Security

Steve Blank

It’s time to teach Cyber Security as integral part of the high school and college curriculum and to all corporate employees. I grew up in New York City and for a few years heaven on earth for me was going to Boy Scout camp in the summer near the Delaware River. Hacking and Cyber Security. And it’s just going to get worse.

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Guns and Cyber Security

Steve Blank

It’s time to teach Cyber Security as integral part of the high school and college curriculum and to all corporate employees. I grew up in New York City and for a few years heaven on earth for me was going to Boy Scout camp in the summer near the Delaware River. Hacking and Cyber Security. And it’s just going to get worse.

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

They also need to decide whether to structure terms as an equity deal or a convertible security deal. “If you’re going to raise $1 million, my advice is to propose a convertible security, because you can get it done quickly and less expensively,” said Schmitz. Convertible Securities. If high U.S.

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More Tech Startups are LLCs

Austin Startup

Background Reading: When LLCs Make Sense for Startups Not Building a Unicorn If you have spent almost any time reading about the basics of startup legal issues, you know that Delaware C-corps are the default organizational structure for a “classic” tech startup (software, hardware) planning to raise angel/VC money and scale.

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A Startup’s First Steps: What’s In A Name?

Gust

Most new startups have a name in mind, or have even taken various steps to secure rights to the name, but some are on the fence or still developing a brand name when we first meet. Most entrepreneurs focus on #3, and perhaps are also aware of the ability to search state business entity databases online (as with Delaware or California ).

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Our initial test market: We want to make America functional again by helping our users, such as major advocacy organizations and corporations, promote majoritarian-supported policies, e.g., mitigating climate change, strengthening democracy, enforcing ethics in government, promoting national security, and protecting against information warfare. .

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