Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 30, 2015
A C-corporation is more complex and expensive, and is recommended only if you expect to pitch to professional investors who demand preferred stock, or to more than 100 potential shareholders. Even before you build a product, you should be interacting with potential customers in person, and through social media.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
Traditionally, in exchange for giving the company money, investors would receive preferred stock, and founders and employees owned common stock. Preferred stock had specific provisions that gave investors control over when to sell the company or take it public, hiring and firing the founder etc.
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Scott Edward Walker
SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
By getting-out and attending conferences and meet-ups; by blogging; by reading and commenting on other blogs; and by engaging on Twitter and other social media sites. Finally, unless the startup is raising at least approximately $750,000, it generally is not in the company’s interest to issue shares of preferred stock.
Up and Running
MAY 23, 2016
Delaware law gives preferred stock investors of a corporation certain voting rights and control over the corporation. For example, Buffer, the successful social media company, just closed their only office. Delaware permits a single-member board of directors. Pick a name for your business. Don’t forget real-life products.
www.vccafe.com
MARCH 11, 2013
Social Media Tracking/Marketing. analytics for social media and online. social media and email marketing. Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). bitbucket (mercurial only, basically a copy of github… which isn’t bad). CVSDude (svn).
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