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8 Questions You Should Ask Before You Join A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

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? Calculate employee stock option values and vesting times, as well as salary.

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8 Red Flags To Evaluate Before Pledging To A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

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? Calculate employee stock option values and vesting times, as well as salary.

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Validate The Pedigree Of A Startup Before You Jump

Startup Professionals Musings

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? Calculate employee stock option values and vesting times, as well as salary.

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8 Questions Before You Join Or Invest In A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

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? Calculate employee stock option values and vesting times, as well as salary.

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Should You Offer Equity Compensation to Employees?

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If however you are giving a “normal employee” an incentive stock option plan (more on that later), that’s entirely different. Make sure you understand all of your options before making any decisions. When business owners decide to go down the route of equity compensation, there are two primary options to choose between.

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What Start-ups Should Know About Hiring a Lawyer

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We’re Hiring. What Start-ups Should Know About Hiring a Lawyer. Hiring and working with a lawyer is often confusing and daunting, especially if you’ve never done it before. What should new entrepreneurs look for when hiring a lawyer? Hiring employees. We’re Hiring. Get Involved. Meet the Team.

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How to Pick the Right Attorney For Your Startup

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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. Our attorney should have known.