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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Founded it as a California LLC but your potential VC wants a Delaware C-Corp? For a very small fee they can get your Delaware C corp registration, make sure that you have IP protection and ensure you didn’t make an early bumbling mistakes that you’ll pay for dearly in the next 7-10 years of hard work.

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An Entrepreneur’s Moving Guide: 10 Best U.S. States To Consider

The Startup Magazine

and people are not limited to the Silicon Valley area. Rent and income: We thoroughly analyzed all states’ living costs and compared the numbers to income. Yes, living costs might seem a bit high initially, but the low unemployment rate, standing at 2.5%, balanced the whole thing. . Well, it’s West Virginia.

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

” The Cost of Financing. Startups bear the costs of their financing, from the first seed investment to the sale of Series A stock. These costs make it preferable to use a convertible security for a raise of this size and to structure as equity financing if you are raising closer to $2 million. Convertible Securities.

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More Tech Startups are LLCs

Austin Startup

Background Reading: When LLCs Make Sense for Startups Not Building a Unicorn If you have spent almost any time reading about the basics of startup legal issues, you know that Delaware C-corps are the default organizational structure for a “classic” tech startup (software, hardware) planning to raise angel/VC money and scale.

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Do my startup’s lawyers need to be local?

Austin Startup

Because most startups generally incorporate in Delaware for reasons discussed throughout the startup blogosphere, local state law only plays a small role in most of the legal issues that startups deal with (usually local employment law); and for those issues, most startup lawyers collaborate with local employment lawyers.

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How Can Israeli Startups Raise Funding in Silicon Valley?

VC Cafe

VC investors rely heavily on referrals, but what should a non US startup do when looking to raise funding in Silicon Valley? How best can European startups land VC funding in the US / Sillicon Valley? For example, in response to “ How do I raise funds in Silicon Valley for a European-based startup ? &# Eyal S.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

The software was sold based on installation cost running on local servers for enterprises—which was very, very expensive. Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of The Lean Startup, popularized this strategy for web applications. presence via a Delaware-based C-Corp also gives non-U.S. or even be a U.S.