Employee Equity IP Technical Review 
Steve Blank
JANUARY 17, 2023
This post previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Venture Studios are an “idea factory” with their own employees searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team. Carlos stirred his coffee.
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.
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NZ Entrepreneur
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
If we want to maintain and support sustainable economic growth while meeting the broader needs of society, we will need an economy underpinned by innovation and new technologies. Remuneration will reflect the stage of the startup but it’s generally at a rate of about $500-1000 a meeting or directors might be paid in equity at about 0.5-0.75%
The Startup Magazine
MARCH 10, 2018
A business runs on diligence, passion, and creativity — but it also needs a whole lot of legal help. You need lawyers to help you with incorporation and IP creation. Lawyers have existed for centuries, and they command high salaries due to the intricacy of their work — so is it really possible to replace them with a few lines of code?
David Teten
MARCH 14, 2018
Sophisticated VC and private equity funds have a wide array of options for leveraging outside operating executives. The firm attracts deal flow by promising a decision (positive or negative) in under 2 weeks, with minimal paperwork and without repeating due diligence. engineers, designers, business developers).
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 14, 2016
Watch out for complex areas such as accounting for revenue, inventory, contingencies, equity instruments and consolidation. More than 50% of deals fail, often due to uncovering skeletons in the closet. Employees and contractors. However, the legal definition of an employee versus a contractor can get tricky.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 23, 2015
For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.” He or she has worked at some very successful big technology or media companies and went to a great school. He still has the dream. He has the hunger.
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