YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Craig Schmitz, a partner in the Technology Companies Group at law firm Godwin Proctor LLP who works on corporate, governance, board and fundraising issues, and Erika Fisher, an associate in the firm’s Business Law Department who deals with IP, fielded questions about the legal issues startups face. Debt or convertible securities (e.g.,

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Hippoland

AUGUST 17, 2016

A reader named Turner Dean recently asked me whether it’s better to raise seed money on convertible notes or straight-up equity. I think my total legal bill for getting my seed round done for LaunchBit was something like < $3000. I see this a bit akin to technical debt. This should be basically free.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems. “The tech industry creates roughly 10 awesome companies per year,” he says. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

I raised $500k in seed money to start the company. year old boy and another one due in 1 months. I’m assuming this in Silicon Valley, LA or similar locations. But money off of the table is comensurate with the stage of business. When we moved to Palo Alto we rented a place. Tweet This Post Facebook.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

Startups are undergoing the same transformation that technology does when it becomes cheaper. Its a pattern we see over and over in technology. Standardization When technology makes something dramatically cheaper, standardization always follows. Google is the leader here, as in so many areas of technology.

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