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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Of all your hires, if you have commissioned sales people, those will give you the most problems if they’re not all given an equal chance to make their quotas and achieve their personal earnings goals. Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. Even for ISO’s, have you heard of form 83(b)?

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Startups, Please, Don’t Break These Laws.

Up and Running

Or you can talk to accredited investors , as defined by the the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Maybe we forget because we’re used to business plan projections, which are just that, projections. Presenting financial results is serious business. That’s against the law.

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Is crowdfunding legal?

Startup Company Lawyer

” Title III enables “crowdfunding,” or the ability to sell securities in small amounts to a large number of investors. Whether or not the crowdfunding provisions will have a significant impact on small business fundraising is yet to be determined. Crowdfunding Prior to the JOBS Act. Crowdfunding is not a new concept.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 11: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

Million in 1946 as a closed-end mutual fund ) which meant ARD was regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC.) Corporate Finance One of the ironies in Silicon Valley is that the two companies which gave birth to its entire semiconductor industry weren’t funded by venture capital. with a check for $1.5