Employee Equity Government IP 
Steve Blank
JANUARY 17, 2023
Venture Studios are an “idea factory” with their own employees searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. In exchange for attending an accelerator, startups give up 5% to 10% of their company’s equity. In return for the lower risk, a venture studio typically takes a larger percentage of equity.
Up and Running
MARCH 12, 2019
The best thing you can do is create an IP protection strategy and document it in a business plan , so you’ve integrated it into your larger business strategy. IP protection is especially important when your company’s ethos is unique and one-of-a-kind, and you want to protect against the possibility of copycats. IP assignment clause.
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Scott Edward Walker
OCTOBER 19, 2020
Over the past six months, my firm has been engaged by a number of startups with significant intellectual property (“IP”) problems. In a couple of cases, the founders played lawyer on their own; in the other cases, the founders either used (i) a Web service that did not address IP issues or (ii) an inexperienced law firm.
NZ Entrepreneur
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Underpinning this growth is good governance. In order to understand startup governance, you need to understand risk and reward. This may mean straddling the line between governance and management when necessary. This equity will vest over 2-3 years. Risk and reward. Strategy is everything for a startup company board.
VC Cafe
APRIL 29, 2020
The $349 billion aid package issued by the US Government and distributed in the form of SBA loans was quickly gobbled up by a large number of applications, many of which were from venture-backed or PE-backed startups. Source: NVCA , “Startup Ecosystem Faces Capital Crunch over Coming Months” USA – SBA Loans and PPP.
The Startup Magazine
MARCH 10, 2018
You need lawyers to help you with incorporation and IP creation. For example, software is relatively good at producing boilerplate contracts, such as you might use for hiring employees or freelance staff. If your IP is unique and at the heart of your startup, you definitely need legal help to protect your business.
Gust
DECEMBER 1, 2011
Notice what is missing from this list of priorities: The company itself – that is, a business entity, most often a corporation , that will own the entire business (however defined), issue equity to founders, take investment capital , enter into contracts, make sales, pay employees and contractors, and so forth. Good stuff!
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