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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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Forget to get around to setting up that Employee Stock Option Plan and want to be able to give the early guys their options at a low strike price? But as with consulting, PR, web design and even VC – it’s not just the firm it’s also the individual. You need to know how liquidations preferences work.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

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In the startup journey if you have success in your early product launches, fund raising and PR you’re likely to get “inbound interest” from likely acquirers. The don’t understand VC liquidation preferences or multiple return expectations. You take the meeting but you’re not really pursuing it.

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Don’t Cede Control: Why You Need to Cut out Middle Men in Negotiations

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For one, due to the way liquidation preference work sometimes they have “flat spots&# which means that they might earn the exact same amount from a $40 million sale as they would from a $50 million sale. Bankers & PR : I think you get the point so I’ll make the last two brief. PR firms are the same.

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Twitter Link Roundup #215 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

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Does A Billion-Dollar Valuation Buy Employee Happiness? Good read for entrepreneurs & startup employees on liquidation preferences – crowdspring.co/1neVvzy. Guerilla tips for raising venture capital | VentureBeat – crowdspring.co/P6hM3O. ReadWrite – crowdspring.co/1ekm5xR.

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Twitter Link Roundup #216 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Sick Leave for Your Employees: Why it Matters – crowdspring.co/1gFez17. Sick Leave for Your Employees: Why it Matters – crowdspring.co/1gFez17. Good read for entrepreneurs & startup employees on liquidation preferences – crowdspring.co/1neVvzy. Most are spot on. ” – crowdspring.co/1lPU1Ks.