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‘Dear Abby’ Style Advice to Real Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

I am retired but formerly have been a marketing director and involved in CPA financial services. Dear StartupPro, My question is how to treat a valuable domain name during the funding stage? My initial thought was to place a value on the name and lease it to the company with the option to buy after a pre-determined number of years.

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Beware The Consultant

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One startup I joined was very proud that they had been ‘accepted’ as a client by a prestigious Silicon Valley law firm whose name rhymes with a type of pasta (they are lawyers after all, so I have to be careful here…). The firm, (did I mention that the name rhymes with a type of pasta?) John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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