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Corporation or LLC? Business Organizations for Tech Startups.

YoungUpstarts

One of the first actions you will take with your startup is to organize your company a separate legal entity to protect yourself from personal liability for the company’s debts. In the tech startup context, you’ll typically choose between a Corporation and a Limited Liability Company (“LLC”).

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4 Deadly Legal Mistakes That Startups Make

Scott Edward Walker

Indeed, you must make sure that all of the shares of common stock issued by the corporation to the founders are subject to vesting restrictions – which means that ownership of the shares would vest over time (instead of all of the shares being owned outright on day one). code, logo, domain name, etc.)

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Venture Capital Q&A Session

Both Sides of the Table

Mike Stern (wasn’t sure which one so leave a comment if it’s you): Q: “is it possible to sell your startup without venture investment if the company has big traction and a large user base?&# The downside is that people need to buy their stock. This question runs from about minute 2 – minute 8. Do it early.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Want to start a startup? A typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. Few startups get it quite right. 1 ] A startups life will be more complicated, legally, if any of theinvestors arent accredited.

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Building a new startup hub Last week, I had a unique opportunity to spend some time in Boulder at the behest of TechStars. It was a great experience to see a relatively new startup hub in action - and thriving. Their model looks like a key ingredient in the startup brew there.

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How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup Company Lawyer

In addition, I think that a “peace treaty&# between early-stage investors and startup companies on standard terms (at least at a term sheet level) is a step in the right direction. I also reviewed the TechStars documents last year and they are similar in concept to the Y Combinator documents as the chart below indicates.).

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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

www.inc.com

Advisor. ); STARTUP. Naming a Business. Business Software. Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. Kyle retained the right to name the third board member. Email address: Home.

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