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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Do you have legal (Founder Agreement, IP, etc.) How will you differentiate from these? Do you have a name, a logo, and have you thought about brand positioning? Six months from now? A year from now? Administration What will you need to do from a back-end? Graphic design? UI/UX design?

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Why Entrepreneurs Must Learn to Love Paperwork  

The Startup Magazine

From a legal perspective this is known as “ piercing the veil ” and it generally happens when a court is shown that one or more of the company officers acted with some level of negligence or maliciously committed unethical business practices. Be able to prove due diligence whenever you can. Protect your intellectual property.

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13 Critical Small Business Legal Requirements to Start a Business

Up and Running

Small Business Administration , an organization is considered to be a small business if their: Firm revenue ranges from $1 million to $40 million Number of employees is between 100 and 1,500. It isn’t a separate legal entity from the owners, and they share funding, risks, profits, and losses. Register your business name.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 1- Name to signify the beginning of an end. 3- My name and the work we do. So, I kept it simple: my name and the work we do: Brill Media.

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The Importance of Due Diligence in M&A Transactions

Scott Edward Walker

I’ve been handling a number of M&A transactions over the past few months from the buy-side, and one mistake I’m repeatedly seeing is the failure of the acquirer to perform an adequate due-diligence investigation of the target. Client Name] — Attached is an initial draft of the purchase agreement.

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. This is a very common scenario when entrepreneurs pitch VCs and frankly is a very common scenario when VCs try to raise money from LPs.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

So you’ve chosen a name for your startup, product, or both. It’s possible to have a company with literally millions of customers (users) that employs only a handful of people, working in a small rented office, with hardware and software costing in the tens of thousands rather than millions of dollars. Intellectual property.