Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2013

If you really want to impress a startup founder as a potential employee, or you want to be a smart investor, you need to know the right questions to ask. You need to know this as a future employee, since it probably gates how long your new job will last. How solid is the intellectual property? What’s in this deal for me?

Due Diligence 174

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2016

One more key employee or one more investor will probably not turn the situation around. Every startup should have at least a couple of outside advisors who are not major investors or family members, anxious to talk to new investors and key new hires. Are any lawsuits and challenges to intellectual property pending?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Breaches involving health information, trade secrets, and intellectual property can be devastating for the affected brand. Account hacking: It just takes one employee to fall victim to a phishing or spear phishing attack for the entire company’s data to be breached. So what can organizations do?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. Point Nine Capital uses 15Five for continuous employee feedback.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Sure, you can get up to speed eventually, perhaps by hiring the right people, or doing the training, but at what cost? Due diligence is required in any area of life. The contribution of employees. How each party contributes toward employees should be determined from the start. The intellectual property ownership.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

We had personally invested $70,000 of our own money at this point, and we were hoping to raise at least another $250,000 to help us hire a team, launch our company, and begin to build our product. After a couple of due diligence meetings with the investor and our attorneys, he gave us the check. We were on a roll.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Consequently, we should be paid employees of the company. Furthermore, as a company, we should pay all the taxes for our employees on time and in correct form. It is our responsibility as founders to carry out the payment of taxes, insurance, and everything that is necessary when it comes to the law and new employees.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2017

This includes your business as a financial entity, your physical property, your intellectual property, and your employees. To ensure your business is protected in this way, do the following: Hire a team to perform a security audit of your IT network. Protect your intellectual property.

Intellectual Property 124

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

If you really want to impress a startup founder as a potential employee, or you want to be a smart investor, you need to know the right questions to ask. You need to know this as a future employee, since it probably gates how long your new job will last. How solid is the intellectual property? What’s in this deal for me?

Due Diligence 237

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2010

If you really want to impress a startup founder as a potential employee, or you want to be a smart investor, you need to know the right questions to ask. You need to know this as a future employee, since it probably gates how long your new job will last. How solid is the intellectual property? What's in this deal for me?

Due Diligence 229

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

If you really want to impress a startup founder as a potential employee, or you want to be a smart investor, you need to know the right questions to ask. You need to know this as a future employee, since it probably gates how long your new job will last. How solid is the intellectual property? What’s in this deal for me?

Due Diligence 244

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

And please don’t tell us to hire a lawyer.) There are three deadly mistakes that relate to intellectual property (IP) ownership, all of which usually surface when the investors conduct their due-diligence investigation: 1. Assuming we mess something up, are there any mistakes that can’t be fixed down the road?

Vesting 89

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 18, 2018

For one thing, when you purchase an existing company, someone else has probably already done a lot of the startup legwork, like verifying that there’s a market for your product or service, establishing a customer base, hiring employees, and negotiating a lease. You’ll need to do your own due diligence. Balance sheets.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

The reason is that employees are investors too—oftheir time—and they want just as much to be able to cash out. Ifyour competitors offer employees stock options that might make themrich, while you make it clear you plan to stay private, yourcompetitors will get the best people. Theres only common stock at this stage.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

BambooHR -Â Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc. find/hire freelancers. hire low-cost international engineering talent. VWorker -Â find/hire freelancers. Intellectual Property Law For Startups Blog. s most comprehensive collection of business and intellectual property information.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Unlike employee training costs, which can typically be spread over years of service, the relative return from training a consultant is modest and pricey. At the early stages of your company’s life, you cannot rely on disinterested, hired guns to define your company’s key tasks. Pyramid Power. They know everything – just ask them.

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