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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

These might include, e.g., mitigating climate change, strengthening democracy, enforcing ethics in government, promoting national security, and protecting against information warfare. . For 2 years, I’ve been struggling to think what I can do to help make America functional again, in light of how broken our governance is.

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Our initial test market: We want to make America functional again by helping our users, such as major advocacy organizations and corporations, promote majoritarian-supported policies, e.g., mitigating climate change, strengthening democracy, enforcing ethics in government, promoting national security, and protecting against information warfare. .

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Dear Founders: Here Are Three IP Mistakes to Watch-Out For

Scott Edward Walker

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. This issue is akin to trying to negotiate with a departed founder who is not subject to a vesting schedule – see post here.).

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

Both Sides of the Table

VCs (and LPs) have a vested interest in having more data, whether they want to invest in your company / firm or not. The buyer is shopping for equity in startups and the seller is looking for cash in exchange for equity and shared governing control of his or her company. They aren’t doing this viciously?—?they

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Bitcoin – the future of money?

The Equity Kicker

The key is in the first sentence of the definition above – Bitcoin bypasses central authorities and issuers – meaning it replaces governments as the issuers of money. Two examples: fees to buy stuff over the web can be much less than the 2-3% taken by credit cards, and. It may never get there, large vested interests (e.g.

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What Start-ups Should Know About Hiring a Lawyer

www.thedailymuse.com

At the most basic level, start-ups need lawyers to help them deal with three groups: The government. The real value of a lawyer at the incorporation stage isn’t really in preparing the actual documents, but in helping you figure out what you need (LLC vs. corporation, what sort of vesting schedule makes sense, and so on).

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Set any vesting schedules and expiration dates on roughly similar terms, if for no other reason just so you can track all of them correctly. Board and Governance issues arise from day one in most startups. They even create a tangled web of electronic files that are hard to unravel.