Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). under $500K).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2023

He is the founder of Nudge, an analytics company, that was a commercialized product from his agency. Prior to Nudge, he co-founded an agency in New Zealand that was the 8th fastest-growing business at the time. He's the founder of Nudge, an analytics company that was started as a commercial venture or product from his own agency.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

JD Weinstein , head of Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem in Austin; Karen Kilroy, entrepreneur and CEO of Kilroy Blockchain; Sabrina Wojtewicz, co-founder of Bunker Labs; and Sara Chapman, Director of Entrepreneurship Strategy & Partnerships at Dell will discuss how both startups and corporations can work together and find the right fit.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. And there you have it. Not a chance.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

I spent a bunch of time with Co-founders Alex Bard and Gary Benitt. They also help you surface things like documents that you shared with other people without having to look through a bunch of old emails to find them. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital VC Industry. Enter Xobni. 5.0mm in Series B.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. Stefan Tirtey, Partner at Doughty Hanson Ventures , created this document with Berlin early stage investors. If you raise money for the first time, you better understand the basics of venture capital.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. For ideas, see How Executives Can Work from Home with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds. Keep these documents constantly up to date, so all team members are aligned on key numbers, e.g., total dollars raised so far.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. We’ve compiled a definitive list of sources of startup capital in Austin.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. Not only that, but the growing battle between venture capital firms and “super angels&# presents an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs trying to build the next big thing. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. Not only that, but the growing battle between venture capital firms and “super angels&# presents an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs trying to build the next big thing. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said.

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David Teten

MARCH 29, 2015

Ever since I studied Total Quality Management in college, I’ve been a bit obsessed with documenting processes. I was particularly influenced by Dr. Atul Gawande’s “ Checklist Manifesto ”, which underlined for me the value of collecting, documenting, analyzing, and continually re-optimizing best practices. And always comment your code!

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

We all can intuit the benefits to founders of these trends so there’s little reason to elaborate. How founders get screwed on convertible notes. Does he blog about venture capital and try to advise entrepreneurs? Has written a book on venture capital. Is this investor on AngelList? You betcha.

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Up and Running

MAY 18, 2016

In this book, you’ll get step-by-step advice on how to align strategy, tactics, milestones, and assumptions, without having to worry about creating a business plan document. The Business Model Generation was co-created by 470 Business Model Canvas practitioners from 45 countries. Tim Berry is the expert on business planning.

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

For the bulk of my career, I have been representing startups and emerging-growth companies in seed financings, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, and other transactions. Based on the foregoing experience, I am providing three basic tips to founders in connection with doing deals. the money).

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2013

Whether a startup is in need of seed funding from angel investors, series A venture capital, or private investors, Startups.Co ‘s Funding 101 provides a usefultool kit of educational resources – categorized into three Prep, Match and Pitch components – as well as live funding consultants ready to discuss the best path to funding.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. We market to four populations: High-potential founders. PEVCTech.com , a community for investors and technologists responsible for investing in private companies, primarily at private equity and venture capital funds.

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Pascal's View

JULY 9, 2017

Andrew Krowne and I recently co-wrote an article in Tech Crunch , Why SAFE Notes Are Not Safe for Entrepreneurs. The easiest way to do so is via SAFE notes, due to their simplicity, “available online” documentation, no major covenants established to protect the investors, no governance implications at the board level, etc.

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. Instead of worrying solely about some 3rd-party stealing your business idea or a “slip and fall,&# your startup company’s top legal priority should be the reduction of its internal legal threats: co-founder disputes.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 4, 2012

When I reread the plan several years ago for amusement, it motivated me to go dig up plans for other successful companies that I was a co-founder of or early investor in, including NetGenesis and Harmonix. By 1997, when I started investing as a venture capital investor, I was no longer reading business plans.

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David Teten

JULY 28, 2011

I hope you can join me at PluggedIn Ventures ‘ August 3 roundtable, 8:30-10am, focused on "How companies are leveraging real time data, content, and analytics" “Social Technologies and mobile devices mean that words, images, and video now travel faster than the speed of sound, across the street and around the world.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

by Tej Prakash, co-founder of ShouldiSign.com. Therefore, they fail to document initial understandings at the outset. Tej Prakash is the co-founder of ShouldiSign.com , an online legal marketplace that helps individuals and businesses find and engage pre-vetted attorneys in a transparent environment.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is a story of one of the risks of venture capital. But some companies have entrepreneurs that seem talented on paper, are in a space that seems interesting to investors and are able to raise venture capital early in the company’s existence. True story.) 2 weeks later and we may never have raised any more VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Tags: This Week in Venture Capital.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Find strong legal council, and properly document the company early on. Have a founders agreement. If you can’t afford this then make very simple, clear, plain English, written, signed agreements with you “co-founders”. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Startups and tagged agreement , founder , startup.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2015

by Scott Petty, co-founder of Signal Peak Ventures. When you think of the next big thing in venture funding, the corner store or local mechanic isn’t what comes to mind. Yet very small businesses (VSBs) are one of the last untapped bastions of innovation and, by association, venture dollars. A new kind of customer.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 13, 2014

Which leads me to the next point: - Talent/Human Capital Matter : Nest’s founders previously worked at Apple; one of them is credited with being the iPod’s co-creator. M&A Startups Technology business Entrepreneurship innovation smart home technology Venture Capital'

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

My own fascination with podcasts began with a warm recommendation from Pablo (founder of Antidote ). One of them is Alex Blumberg, founder of Gimlet Media. Alex was an award-winning radio journalist at NPR, where he produced This American Life , and co-founded Planet Money. itunes.apple.com. two classics of the medium.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2012

The founders positioned this for Filipino foreign workers, but this can be easily used by incarcerated family members or by the military for personnel on extended overseas missions.). This is a document sharing service that connects your printer to the cloud. In any case, the founders all felt that the time spent had been worth it.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

My partner ( Steve Schlafman ) and I recently launched Tapestry , an exercise for founders to invest in their relationships, and it was met with an incredible reaction. I had done a lot of this work in the past with founding teams and co-founders and never had a great catch all way of explaining it. to launch Tapestry.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2015

Eating my own dogfood - I was obsessed with startups and venture capital… and I talked to a lot of people and picked up nuggets along the process. For me, VC Cafe is one of those things and being included in the Top 50 blogs in Venture Capital (#4!) ” the post was also picked up by Venturebeat.

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Scott Edward Walker

APRIL 9, 2012

Venture capital funds, seed funds, super angels, angel groups, incubators, and “friends and family” are all playing the seed financing game and investing early in startups in an attempt to land the next Facebook. and (iii) what securities laws do founders need to worry about in connection with the issuance of convertible notes?

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 1, 2010

“The Series Seed Documents are a standardized set of documents that can be quickly and easily deployed for a seed investment: to help get a company financed properly, legally, quickly, and intelligently.&#. The drafters are “open sourcing&# the documents so that they may be continually improved by the startup community.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . 3) Raise capital. When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites.

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blog.simeonov.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Simeon, can you tell us how you structure ownership and control so you can fire your co-founders if necessary? The first part will dispel some myths, address the lifecycle of founder agreements and the key compensation and control parameters in them. Let’s start by dispelling some myths: There is a standard founder agreement.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep. Schedule.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

My own fascination with podcasts began with a warm recommendation from Pablo (founder of Antidote ). One of them is Alex Blumberg, founder of Gimlet Media. Alex was an award-winning radio journalist at NPR, where he produced This American Life , and co-founded Planet Money. itunes.apple.com. itunes.apple.com. itunes.apple.com.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

While it seemed like a good idea and had the Navy’s backing, the founders got turned down for funding by companies, investment bankers and everyone, until they talked to John Parker. Why Minneapolis/St. Serendipity came to Minneapolis-St. Paul when the Navy team met John Parker. Paul went almost unnoticed.

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