Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

C corps, LLCs, and S corps differ significantly in the areas of taxation, ownership, fundraising, governance and structure, and employee compensation. Almost all technology startup companies that I work with are C corps. Any company that raises venture financing will need to be a C corp in order to issue preferred stock. If founders want the benefit of flow through tax treatment with respect to losses prior to an outside financing, an S corp election may make sense as long as there are no enti

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Software By Rob

MARCH 9, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← A Glimpse of the Future What is the Micropreneur Academy? → Here is My Glimpse of the Future Micropreneurship If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Bootstrapping 101. I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. One of my colleagues, Joel West, beat me to the punch with a summary of the program.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? My answer is almost always the same: dont. First off, what does it mean to launch? Generally, we conflate two unrelated concepts into the term, which is important to clarify right up front.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Eric Friedman

MARCH 10, 2009

What does trail mix have to do with online advertising? More than you might think as explained in the new white paper linked below. Trail Mix by sylvainleprovost. Darren Herman , who is a thought leader in the ad planning world, recently published Disintermediation of Online Display Advertising ( Link to the PDF ) In which he recounts the early stages of online advertising and brings you up to speed in a clear and concise way.

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abovethecrowd.com

MARCH 9, 2009

“Little Joe never once gave it away Everybody had to pay and pay” — Lou Reed, Walk on the Wild Side The consensus seems to be that social networks have a monetization problem. On this topic, both the leading technology industry blogs and the world’s top news organizations agree. [.].

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← What is the Micropreneur Academy? Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound Netbook, and Internet 1996 → How Third-Party Licensing Can Ruin Your Launch Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 8, 2009

I have received over 100 private emails with reactions to my DHS CATCH conference keynote address , and a number of public comments have been posted on blogs such as Mark Boslet’s TechPulse 360  and Alastair Goldfisher's article on Daniel Primack’s PEHUB.  I have excerpted some of these comments below and only attributed them to the author if they were made in a public forum as opposed to a private comment.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 9, 2009

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with the newly invented personal computer.   In 1982, I used my paper route and Bar Mitzvah money to purchase an Apple II+ PC (my parents did subsidize the purchase somewhat, I confess).   I was mesmerized by the magic of the personal computer and all its possibilities:   games, programming, communications and more.   But what I really fell in love with was this new, magical thing called the reset button.   Don’t like where you find

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Altgate

MARCH 13, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← The Collapse of the VC Ecosystem & What It Will Look Like Post Recovery Global Nuances of Startup Compensation → The Absurdity of the Madoff Conspiracy & the Dangers of the Slippery Slope Posted on March 13, 2009 by fnazeeri Madoff’s lawyers submitted a 6-page story in which he admitted to running a Ponzi scheme all by himself with no one else’s in

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Software By Rob

MARCH 10, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Here is My Glimpse of the Future How Third-Party Licensing Can Ruin Your Launch → What is the Micropreneur Academy? Micropreneurship If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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