Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 30, 2015
A C-corporation is more complex and expensive, and is recommended only if you expect to pitch to professional investors who demand preferred stock, or to more than 100 potential shareholders. If your strength is technology, find a co-founder who has a comparable strength in business, finance or marketing.
www.mattbartus.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
First, you’d probably want them to receive common stock, not preferred stock (which is the likely next round). Common-yet-sticky situations are everywhere, and no VC and few attorney bloggers (but you, apparently) gives them the due attention they deserve. Intellectual Property. Keep on rocking!
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Tim Keane
JANUARY 12, 2010
Term-sheets for preferred stock offerings are designed to protect the investor in case things don’t go as well as planned. Term-sheets for preferred stock offerings are designed to protect the investor in case things don’t go as well as planned. The answer to that, in a word, is risk, - the uncertainty of outcome.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Angels whove made money in technology are preferable,for two reasons: they understand your situation, and theyre asource of contacts and advice.
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MARCH 11, 2013
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