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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

While in law school, my partner, Leigh, and I had a concept for a law firm that did more than just “law.” Right now we have a lot of Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw work that crosses over between the two facets of our firm. A few years ago “venture capital” was a revenue model.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

First it makes it prohibitively risky to develop software intellectual property as a means to build equity — because your competitor could just give it away! One independent expert on the VC industry told me recently that there really is no “venture capital” today, only “continuation capital. Translation?