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Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 2

Steve Blank

Often companies will put you on their advisory board just to use your name and image (and not really want your advice). Advisory Board members are often paid in a balance of equity (stock options) and cash (“cash” is the industry term for money wired to your bank account). Read the rest of Laura’s blogs at [link]

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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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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’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

Both Sides of the Table

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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Twitter Link Roundup #242 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

5 Must-Use Tools for Brainstorming Company Names – crowdspring.co/1wehUO7. Startup Equity and Stock Options: What’s It Worth to You? 33 Best SEO Tools for Blogging – crowdspring.co/1t2l0kr. This week’s Fresh from the SPRING features cS Creative, diselgl! | @crowdSPRING Blog – crowdspring.co/1Eigo27.

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What Start-ups Should Know About Hiring a Lawyer

www.thedailymuse.com

This can vary depending on complexity: how many founders , what “bells and whistles” will be included, whether you are doing an LLC or a corporation, and how you handle certain items, such as stock option plans, and so on. Her blog Kontrary offers career, business, and life advice that works. Name (required). As seen in.

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