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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. Founded it as a California LLC but your potential VC wants a Delaware C-Corp? For company registration, angel deals, Series A & B funding, Employee Stock Option Plans (ESOP), IP filings and even litigation it doesn’t need to be that way.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

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TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) : network transfer protocol, basically it defines requirements for network communications. And companies that have a beautiful product or idea, somewhere between a prototype (only it it’s really cool) and a MVP. Thomas says the maximum size of an angel round he’ll invest in is $2.5M.