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How to Pick the Right Attorney For Your Startup

Up and Running

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. So we hired another firm to help us facilitate the removal of this clause. The deal we made with him was he’d get 33.3%

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

I'll add two ideas: The modern structure of university patent licensing and technology transfer works really well in the life sciences and other fields with expensive product development processes. Our patent laws have been weakened reducing the value of intellectual capital.

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Beware The Consultant

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Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. At the early stages of your company’s life, you cannot rely on disinterested, hired guns to define your company’s key tasks. What would be the best way to get results without hiring a consultant from Silicon Valley?

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