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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

Craig Schmitz, a partner in the Technology Companies Group at law firm Godwin Proctor LLP who works on corporate, governance, board and fundraising issues, and Erika Fisher, an associate in the firm’s Business Law Department who deals with IP, fielded questions about the legal issues startups face. Convertible Securities.

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The state of Q2 2018 pre-seed/seed-stage fundraising: Part 1 - crypto version

Hippoland

Part 2 will be for pre-seed/seed companies raising traditional equity / debt / convertible security rounds. Basically, early customers buy into a new startup’s token at a special price, and those customers benefit from that price if the company does well. I think that discipline in a startup is important.

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The state of Q2 2018 pre-seed/seed-stage fundraising: Part 1 - crypto version

Hippoland

Part 2 will be for pre-seed/seed companies raising traditional equity / debt / convertible security rounds. Basically, early customers buy into a new startup’s token at a special price, and those customers benefit from that price if the company does well. I think that discipline in a startup is important.

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Pre-seed is the new seed

Hippoland

He has done incredibly well financially on his past two startups, and he’s now building his 3rd company. And/or getting your first set of customers. And if you do the math of VCs buying roughly 20% of a startup, valuations can be upwards in the $50m+ range for today’s series A rounds! This was surprising to me.

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Pre-seed is the new seed

Hippoland

He has done incredibly well financially on his past two startups, and he’s now building his 3rd company. And/or getting your first set of customers. And if you do the math of VCs buying roughly 20% of a startup, valuations can be upwards in the $50m+ range for today’s series A rounds! This was surprising to me.