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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

Startups need to understand how to manage the seed money they receive from investors and VCs. A startup may need to hire a lawyer to understand what the best strategy is given its particular technology space and to guard against being seen as an easy mark. On the other hand, it may encourage other trolls to visit.

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. They need the money to rent offices, hire staff, and establish their initial presence (website, incorporation, marketing). At this stage you’re essentially selling yourself and your cofounders. Without funding most tech startups will die.

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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

Both Sides of the Table

For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. The Aqui-hire Business. Many buying companies price these deals on the basis of $1 million per engineer on the team for an early-stage deal. Go do a startup.

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What’s the problem with too much funding?

Version One Ventures

With the influx of seed money, much has been written about the fact that start-ups that are taking far more funding than they need. Being swamped with funding is a problem that most early stage companies would love to have. Too much funding removes the natural limit on how many opportunities you can go after.

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Understanding the Risks of VC Signaling

Both Sides of the Table

Chris Dixon provided some commentary on Twitter that he believes I missed “the most important point about fund size.&# He’s specifically referring to his point of view that entrepreneurs shouldn’t take seed money from “big VC’s&# (he defines them as > $100 million). Let me give you an example.

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To Fundraise While You're Not Fundraising or to Not Fundraise While You're Not Fundraising? That is the Question.

This is going to be BIG.

First, in the early stages, there's a lot more information that can be gleaned about you than we can know for sure about the success of your company. You think you're getting this big fat check compared to the seed money you raised, but they're actually doing something more like dipping their toes in the water.

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Mile-High disruption: Why Denver should be on your tech radar next year

The Next Web

The city is enhancing tech education options at all levels; non-profit organizations are helping early-stage entrepreneurs gain access to much-needed funding and resources; and regional government bodies are opening new market opportunities with recent growth initiatives, including increasing domestic and international flight services.

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