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Do It Right The First Time: Avoiding “Janitorial” Legal Work

Gust

Every startup lawyer is familiar with variations on this theme and can recite cautionary war stories, but the Winklevoss brothers’ dispute with Facebook, made famous in the movie The Social Network , has become the iconic example. In next week’s post, I will get into specific documents.

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Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time

mashable.com

Now that we’re nearing the home stretch of 2010, it’s a good time to take stock of various odds and ends for your business. And while your legal document filing service may be very speedy and process your request in a day, you’ll still be at the mercy of any backlog at your state’s Secretary of State office.

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Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time

mashable.com

Now that we’re nearing the home stretch of 2010, it’s a good time to take stock of various odds and ends for your business. And while your legal document filing service may be very speedy and process your request in a day, you’ll still be at the mercy of any backlog at your state’s Secretary of State office.

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The Landing Page Optimization Guide You Wish You’ve Always Had

ConversionXL

Surely, what’s “appeals” to a 54 year old mother of 5 who goes online to check Facebook and Metafilter will be vastly different from a Google Glass wearing, 27 year old power-user of social networks you haven’t even heard of yet. Do This: Create a document all of the alternative ideas & you’ve had for copy, design, images etc.

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7 Tips To Follow When Hiring Start-Up Employees

YoungUpstarts

However, recruiters have to keep in mind that, in many cases, people use social network in a totally different way than they would behave in the workplace. When candidates send references along with their application documents, usually they focus only on the best ones – which is of course fully understandable. Reference check.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. 38 New Social Media Resources You May. San Diego, California) Jobs Comentum is a dynamic and cutting edge company.Be

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The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again

Steve Blank

In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. Silicon Valley startups are falling over each other to file their S-1 documents to go public. Some precursors to the bubble happened when Chinese Internet companies listed on United States stock exchanges.