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Three Startup Financing Myths You Should Avoid

YoungUpstarts

If you are building a startup, you’ll find no shortage of people who are willing to give you advice, particularly when it comes to raising financing. For some entrepreneurs, raising financing can seem like a full time job, particularly in these trying times. Unfortunately, much of this advice is wrong. Well not, wrong exactly.

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Dear Founders: Here Are Three IP Mistakes to Watch-Out For

Scott Edward Walker

In a couple of cases, the founders played lawyer on their own; in the other cases, the founders either used (i) a Web service that did not address IP issues or (ii) an inexperienced law firm. The purpose of this blog post is to briefly discuss the three most common IP mistakes that startups make.

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Cash-strapped? How to pay for services with your startup’s equity

The Next Web

From Silicon Valley to Peoria, Illinois, cash-strapped startups look for inventive way to finance their business – often handing out equity to employees, consultants, vendors, and other service providers. It’s a logical solution. But beyond motivation, there are more pragmatic factors at play here too.

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What happens when a company is acquired for less money than it raised in funding?

Gust

5) Senior Preferred Stock and warrants. 7) Junior Preferred Stock and warrants. 9) Common Stock (including any Preferred that converted to Common, any exercised options, and all Founders stock) and Common stock warrants. 2) Secured creditors. 3) Un-secured trade creditors.

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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

www.inc.com

Finance | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Arizona Bay, after all, had built the IT infrastructure and Web applications that Jumpstart needed to hit it big. The sports endorsement industry is worth nearly $1 billion and has only recently begun migrating to the Web.

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How to Fund Your Startup Without Losing Control

Up and Running

For a business that anticipates needing, for example, $500,000 in startup capital, that means that best-case scenario Klemm can expect to give up half of his business’s common stock (and an even larger percentage of control of the business once the deal’s fine print provisions are considered).

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Q1 2021 Portfolio Review

Version One Ventures

The company expects its direct listing to occur on April 14, 2021 with its Class A common stock trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol COIN. Preemadonna raised over $5M in seed financing. Arweave announced its incubator, the Open Web Foundry. If you missed it, you can read our announcement here. A strategic $2.7M