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3 Ways For Startups To Cut Their Legal Fees in Half

Scott Edward Walker

We just closed a $250,000 convertible note financing, and the bill was almost $13,000. I saw all this first-hand as an associate for nearly eight years at two major law firms in New York City. Question We launched our venture about six months ago, and we’ve been using a big Silicon Valley law firm to handle our legal work.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (4/11) – Resiliency

Both Sides of the Table

We had been working on a merger between BuildOnline and a competitor called iScraper. At BuildOnline we had brought one new investor to the deal – a Swiss/New York investor called ETF Group. I jumped on a plane and immediately flew to New York for just 1 day to meet with the Chief Investment Officer of ETF.

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