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How to Pick the Right Attorney For Your Startup

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We were targeting to raise around $3 million in investment capital. We had personally invested $70,000 of our own money at this point, and we were hoping to raise at least another $250,000 to help us hire a team, launch our company, and begin to build our product. We set off to raise our money. Our attorney should have known.

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How to Raise Startup Funding from Unlikely Angel Investors

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Capitalization Table and Shareholder Roster. Contact Information (for managers, directors, shareholders, developers if outsourced, attorneys, accountants, consultants). Management Resumes and Organizational Chart. Customer References. Personal References. Social Security Numbers (for background checks). Stock Option.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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Q&A: Group Commerce Plans Hires, European Growth with $21M Funding. VP of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, Microsoft. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. View More in Boston ›. Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. New York ›.

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Startup Equity For Employees

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The re-heating of the venture funded tech market has pushed a heat up of the hiring market, and Im getting more calls from friends asking for help understanding startup stock (equity) offers. But this usually happens NOT to compensate for dilution, but to recognize a bigger contribution to the company than what you were originally hired for.

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Cap Table Explained — What is it and How to Maintain it for Investors

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Wondering what a cap table is, its importance, and how you can maintain it to expand your business? What is a cap table? A cap table is also known as the capitalization table. This is a table that outlines the company’s capitalization. Therefore a cap table is needed to maintain all of that.

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Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? - Quora

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As a result, there is a much bigger supply of these people than there are of founders who can get a company to the point of hiring some early employees. If I grant equity to a outsourced developer for future services after his initial contract with me is delivered on, where on the capitalization table do I place him?

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Episode 8: Charlie’s Bcast Email, Startup Incubators, and 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail | The Bcast

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See if you can start developing at that kind of thing. Peter: You’re going to develop, develop, develop and if you don’t get kicked out of the the accelerator, you will get funding of some sort. Peter: Or all the business but not the development knowledge let’s say. Take your idea there.