Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). under $500K).

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The French government has translated the JEI program into English as the Young Entrepreneurs Initiative , an annual competition run by the French Embassy to the US. The boards of these organizations include large companies, local and regional government representatives, universities/public research labs and SMEs. The Big Players.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

David's firm most recently participated in the $77 million second round financing of SoFi, a one year old startup focusing on student loans. I suppose, more specifically, the bubble ended in the last two weeks of September--right after this financing. The other entrepreneur quoted in the story is from a guy pitching a Pinterest clone.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

How spoiled we are, taking for granted a system of government with relatively stable, transparent laws and regulations, consistently applied (at least in theory), and subject to judicial oversight with appellate review. The risk-reward tradeoff in finance should hold true in developing and unstable regions as well.

Technical Review 172

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

By 1991, 70% of the Torch funded startups were getting bank financing for expansion and later stages of the new ventures, with local governments acting as guarantors. Inside the zones were Torch Technology Business Incubators with startups licensed by the local governments. Like the U.S. It went bankrupt in 1997.).

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

In July of 2009, the UK instituted a new network known as Faster Payment Service with same day settlement to replace their equivalent of ACH. Many blame Dodd-Frank and the consolidation post 2009 for the loss of free checking. I can ping Madagascar from my desktop in California in 368ms, but it takes 72 hours for a U.S.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

We started getting feedback on the idea starting March 2009 (second semester) and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. I always thought things like student government were stupid, and I don’t typically win popularity contests, so recognizing that, I ran to be section president which is exactly what I thought people would make fun of.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

By 1991, 70% of the Torch funded startups were getting bank financing for expansion and later stages of the new ventures, with local governments acting as guarantors. Inside the zones were Torch Technology Business Incubators with startups licensed by the local governments. Like the U.S. It went bankrupt in 1997.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2011

companies made the IPO transition in 2009, out of thousands of startups. With Sarbanes-Oxley, the CEO, CFO, and the Board of Directors are all assumed to have full knowledge of all government standards of compliance and reporting. Increasing government regulations. Only about a dozen U.S.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts for SaaS companies planning their 2009 budget. Is Government a good idea? Here is the full presentation if you want to dive deeper: Bessemer 5 Cs of SaaS Finance View more presentations from Philippe Botteri. Thursday, November 13, 2008. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare?

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

It had been written that NYC was built by industries of zero sum games like finance and real estate, and that DNA wouldn’t work in the startup community. What I would say isn’t as important—for one, government intervention directly into the startup community. You need both. New Yorkers help each other out.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 30, 2013

Today appears to be government day on Feld Thoughts. Mark – thank you – you’ve been an awesome supporter of this and leader of the effort since the first day we discussed it in 2009. The proposal allows foreign entrepreneurs who attract financing from U.S. Now I get to write about Senators Mark Udall (D-Colo.)

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2018

Well, this is a digital currency that was begun in 2009. Well, the bitcoin has been taxable since 2009 and as such, it is probable that the Australian government could tax bitcoin users in arrears-since 2009. Here are 5 tips for buying bitcoin in Australia: What are Bitcoins? Buying bitcoin has its risks and challenges.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

As our federal and state government continue to worry about job creation, they’re trying their best to promote entrepreneurship. If you have not taken advantage of the tax credit before, you can amend your 2008, 2009 or 2010 tax returns to do so, and New York may issue a refund to you for those prior years.

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Up and Running

JUNE 9, 2010

He says: Although I’d financed much of Zappos myself during its early days, we’d eventually raised tens of millions of dollars from outside investors, including $48 million from Sequoia Capital, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. This was in 2009. By early 2009, we were at a stalemate. Cash flow was very tight.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Finance IPO 79

Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

Tuesday, March 10, 2009. We dont know the end of the story, but they have built a real business with hundres of machines sold to gyms all over the world along with government contracts for military purchases. ▼ 2009. (7). I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. ProfessorVC. Bootstrapping 101.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JUNE 6, 2012

As USA Today notes: Nearly half of young adult households, those ages 15 to 34, are considered under-banked, according to a survey by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in 2009, the latest year for which there is data. Why is that? It’s the great recession of course, plus the rising cost of college.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. Board and Governance issues arise from day one in most startups. Many of us suffered in the 2000–2002 dotcom crash and/or the 2007–2009 Great Recession; others hardly noticed a blip.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. innovation in the U.S. China now has plenty of both.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Here are a few highlights of the report: Fifty-five (55) percent of small employers attempted to borrow in 2009; 45 percent did not, although five percent of owners, so-called discouraged borrowers, did not try because they did not think they could obtain credit. Weak demand will also not be cured by Keynesian government spending initiatives.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Over $135 billion MORE was spent on healthcare in 2009 ($2.5 in 2009 was greater than the revenues of Microsoft, Cisco, Google, and Apple. And with over 50% of this spending coming from government - primarily from Medicaid spending (up 10%) and Medicare (up 8%) - there is no end in sight to the growth. trillion) than in 2008.

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Hockey Stick Private Equity Washington Government 72

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

It also causes them to miss the numerous other kinds of startups that appear in less-glamorous settings: inside enterprises, non-profits, and even governments. This is equally true of a packaged good in a grocery store, an ecommerce website, a non-profit social service or a variety of government programs. Wrong again. Wrong again.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Check out the personal finance topic by clicking here. People living off the government cannot always buy the cool new products we want to offer them. I hope you will join the team and relieve me of some of this burden.” Guy Kawasaki is the co-founder of Alltop.com , an “online magazine rack” of popular topics on the web.

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Software Review Startup Post-Money Valuation Technical Review 68

Scott Edward Walker

MAY 30, 2013

Prior to 2009, the duties of officers were unclear. In 2009, however, the Delaware Supreme Court held in the Gantler case that: “[O]fficers of Delaware corporations, like directors, owe fiduciary duties of care and loyalty, and…the fiduciary duties of officers are the same as directors.”. What About Officers? What Does This All Mean?

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Unlike American dollars, Bitcoin is decentralized, so there is no government or Federal Reserve manipulating it at any given time. Bitcoin was founded in 2009 by a person or group using the alias Satoshi Nakamoto. What is a Bitcoin? Bitcoin is a digital currency that may be traded for goods and services like any other type of money.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 7, 2010

Conformity , creators of the first suite of on-demand solutions to enable organizations to centrally govern and manage users of software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud applications, today announced it has secured an additional $3 million in Series A financing led by Guggenheim Venture Partners.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2011

The top challenge listed across all respondents was access to financing. billion in 3,277 deals, and while this is certainly up from the death spiral period of the 2008-2009 period, it is still much less than the $30 billion average that venture funds were investing annually through most of the past decade.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 7, 2008

This is one of the striking conclusions of a newly released working paper by Harvard Business School entrepreneurial finance professor Paul Gompers, et al. ← Startup Failures On The Rise UK Government To Launch VC Fund To Rescue Startups → Comments are closed.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. innovation in the U.S. China now has plenty of both.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

I actually enjoy the process of pulling together a selection of materials to create a complete course on Entrepreneurial Finance. ► 2009. (7). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. Do you have a U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Among those: plentiful financing and nerds , a culture that celebrates both failure and success, and an ethos of openness and sharing. To an early observer, it would have seemed obvious that Route 128 had all the advantages: a head start, more government and military funding, and far more established companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

In addition, due to Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations, accounting costs have gone up an estimated four times for all businesses, and 2008-2009 represented the worst IPO market in forty years. In most cases, no patent means no financing, no new products, no new jobs, and no new industries for tomorrow.

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www.businessweek.com

JUNE 18, 2012

Bloomberg Government. Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Markets & Finance. In 2009, Nuance Communications ( NUAN ) , one of the largest players in voice recognition software, licensed its technology for use in a small mobile app. For Greek Politicians, Election Doesn’t Make Governing Any Easier. Bloomberg Law.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Dec 26, 2009). Start-Up Chile: $40k to Live There and Start a Company - Ben Casnocha: The Blog , August 14, 2010 Governments round the world are trying to stimulate entrepreneurship. The Chilean government recently announced a bold initiative that stands apart from the usual innovation and start-up handwaving. equity debate.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009). In particular, Bill Sahlman’s Entrepreneurial Finance course was excellent. For example, MBA students take classes on accounting and finance.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009). In particular, Bill Sahlman’s Entrepreneurial Finance course was excellent. For example, MBA students take classes on accounting and finance.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

A microbrewery in one state may be governed by very different rules than a microbrewery the next state over. The alcohol industry is governed at both the federal and state level. ” It’s important that you know and abide by all existing federal laws governing beer and alcohol. So, read up on your state’s laws.

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