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Finance Fridays: Getting Started – Allocating Equity and Founder’s Investment

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Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.

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A Startup Knows It Needs a Lawyer When:

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Cost is the overriding issue for startups when it comes to properly engaging a lawyer. My general retort on this point is this: expect to incur real lawyer costs and get over it. 4. You are raising money: raising funds requires documentation regardless of type of financing.