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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Eligible for favorable treatment under Qualified Small Business Stock exemption, if structured as equity. This applies if the investment converts into common stock; details are beyond this essay’s scope. has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, Flexible VC offers you this. Founder retains control.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Given these key advantages, I believe that Lightning (or something like it) will ultimately eat all of the USD payment networks and create the foundation for MoIP (Money over IP). . synthetic stocks or futures) and prediction markets. Some early open source projects include Whatsatt and Juggernaut.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

Locks in rights, preferences and priviledges of the stock. It would be helpful to get a California standard employee manual, employee contract/agreements, IP ownership release to company, and confidentiality. This is all built into a typical founder stock purchase agreement. Sets the valuation at the time of the investment.

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Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time

mashable.com

Now that we’re nearing the home stretch of 2010, it’s a good time to take stock of various odds and ends for your business. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. Follow her on Twitter @corpnet and Facebook. 10 Wonderful Wildlife iPhone Photographs Android Gingerbread Confirmed, Mascot. GE Campaign Turns YouTube Videos and.

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Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time

mashable.com

Now that we’re nearing the home stretch of 2010, it’s a good time to take stock of various odds and ends for your business. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. Follow her on Twitter @corpnet and Facebook. 10 Wonderful Wildlife iPhone Photographs Android Gingerbread Confirmed, Mascot. GE Campaign Turns YouTube Videos and.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

And to top it all off, Snap isn’t offering voting rights to public market investors, which should discount the stock price further. Although they’ll likely fork Android, which is open source, for basic OS components, Snap doesn’t have anywhere near the level of cloud services footprint that Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook do.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

It's a unique approach, and one we'd love to discuss with entrepreneurs and their investment sources. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. Apple Declared "Marketer of the Decade" This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Next Apple Event Goes "Back to the Mac" View More » Mobile Starbucks Stores in New York Now Acce.