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Free Startup Docs: How Much Equity Should Advisors Get?

techcrunch.com

This is where a lot of founders get stuck. Not to mention, once the founder and advisor have nominally agreed to a relationship, law firms enter the mix and seed the new advisor with a mountain of paperwork — legal agreements, options agreements — documents stuffed with legalese and binding statements.

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How to Get Funding from Billionaire Investor Mark Cuban and Other Stories

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How a now-famous web company got funded by Mark Cuban. Rob Biederman, co-founder of HourlyNerd, has a funding story that wouldn’t be out of place in a movie. But, before they were big names, they were simply a team that needed additional money urgently to pay their website development firm.

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IGNITE! pitch event at Microsoft – September 4

David Teten

Chalkable provides the core tools a school needs like gradebook, calendar, feed, and attendance and allow 3rd party web apps to tap into that data via our API. This allows teachers to use amazing web tools in the classroom effortlessly. We piloted in 3 schools and will be in 50 schools in Fall 2012. Welcome to the virtual mall.

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4 Essential Hires If You’re Starting a Business in 2020

Up and Running

You’re not going to be an incredible CFO/CEO/graphic designer/web developer. To appeal to the digital natives born between 1996 and 2012 , it’s important to hire a marketer who understands the trends and values that are influencing this generation’s spending habits. What’s the problem with this approach?

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

www.geekwire.com

July 9, 2012 at 10:21 am by John Cook Leave a Comment. Web Developer. Voted “Next Tech Titan” at the 2012 GeekWire Startup Awards, Tableau Software is on a huge growth trajectory. website blog info snowcreektechlaw.com e-mail twitter. 07/06/2012. Co-founder, National Editor. 07/04/2012.

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders | TechCrunch

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Thursday, February 23rd, 2012. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. It seems learning to code has become a theme in 2012, and the demand is being met by Code Year and others. The problem with non-technical founders is that they don’t know what they don’t know, until they’re in way too deep.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). eCommerce/Social Commerce: New models continue to evolve as ecommerce rebounded this past year.