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13 Critical Small Business Legal Requirements to Start a Business

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Secure your intellectual property. Intellectual property (IP) is anything created by the human intellect that’s protected by the law from unauthorized use by other people. Innovation can be a product, design, or a process of doing things to solve a technical problem. Develop a founders agreement.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard. Yesterday, Michael Pope posted an article titled Technical Cofounders Are a Myth. He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Tuesday, August 17, 2010.

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

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Finance | Tuesdays. Advisor. ); STARTUP. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Intellectual Property. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

Everyone wanted to work in finance. I’ve listed the most common levers that universities use below, with some live examples from Yale: Strong technical departments : Computer Science , Math , Physics. Access to University’s Intellectual Property : Office of Cooperative Research. “CEO is the new Analyst.”.

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Startup Tools

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Blogs (VC): Antonio Rodriguez [link] – A very technical VC at Matrix partners who can actually code. Blogs (web development): Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots – [link] Company blog of thoughtbot covering Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, Javascript, databases, and mobile development.