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Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 2

Steve Blank

Most of her lessons were applicable to any government employee venturing out to the private sector. The same Emotional Quotient and approach that attracts investors will also attract excellent employees. Often companies will put you on their advisory board just to use your name and image (and not really want your advice).

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Venture Capital Q&A Session

Both Sides of the Table

We also discussed how to deal with pricing in angel rounds and a strategy I advocated in my “social proof&# blog post , which is to price your initial angel round really low and get in the best possible angels as a way to get momentum in the company. I talked about the need to have a restricted stock plan for your earliest employees.

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What Founders Need to Know: You Were Funded for a Liquidity Event – Start Looking

Steve Blank

Step 3: List the names of the business development, technology scouts and other people involved in acquisitions and note their names next to the name of the target company. The odds on day-one are that you can’t name anyone. Get your company talked about in the blogs and newsletters they read. Lessons Learned.

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What’s To Stop Twitter’s New Owner From Publishing The Company’s Historical Internal Emails?

Hunter Walker

Selective Leaks of Previous Discussions & Policy Debates In The Name of ‘Transparency’ Would Put Twitter Employees At Risk. as a blog post opener is usually a good reason to close my browser window and take a walk. Namely, the years of emails and documents that detail debates over policy and legal stances.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). Forget to get around to setting up that Employee Stock Option Plan and want to be able to give the early guys their options at a low strike price?

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What Start-ups Should Know About Hiring a Lawyer

www.thedailymuse.com

It’s essential to make sure you take reasonable steps to control risk in your interactions with customers, suppliers, users, employees, and the general public. Hiring employees. Her blog Kontrary offers career, business, and life advice that works. Name (required). 3 Signs Your Employees Think You Suck as a Manager.

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

www.inc.com

Naming a Business. Employee Benefits. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We a 50-employee provider of e-marketing solutions to small and midsize businesses, based in Needham, Mass. "We