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7 Lessons They Don’t Teach You In Crowdfunding School

Startup Professionals Musings

Crowdfunding platforms don’t have the facilities to handle non-disclosure agreements that you might expect from every professional investor. Keep all IP details close to the vest. Be extra careful with your intellectual property. Don’t forget to account for the time and cost of crowdfunding campaigns.

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Pitching A Startup To Investors: Ways To Legally Protect Your Ideas

YoungUpstarts

A non-disclosure agreement (NDA) is a standard document that you can use to commit prospective investors to secrecy over the ideas you reveal in your pitch, whether or not they actually choose to put money in after the event. Use an NDA. Keep your cards close to your chest.

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9 Unexpected Ways a Lawyer Can Help Your Startup

Up and Running

Hire a lawyer to help draft an incentive plan with a vesting schedule that fits your business. Client Agreements. Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreements. Unlike a one-way nondisclosure agreement, mutual NDAs are trickier, and it’s recommended to have a lawyer review those types of agreements.

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Do It Right The First Time, Part II: Visit the Doctor or House Call?

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Determine the allocation of equity among co-founders, early employees or other service providers, and future contributors as applicable, as well as the vesting schedule , if any, that will apply. founders’ shares subject to vesting) and IRS filings for most favorable tax treatment of those shares. Advisory board agreements.