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"We want to give Barbara 4% of the company. How many shares is that?" I get questions like that frequently, and once you understand the math, the solution is pretty simple. Hey, I'm a lawyer, and I …
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President Obama signed legislation this month that creates a new, explicit exemption for private resales of restricted and control securities. The legislation, contained in Fixing America’s Surface …
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Today seems like a good day to tie together a number of subjects I've written about in the past, as a list of the Ten Biggest Legal Mistakes Startups Make. Here are the first five: Number 1 - …
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Welcome back to our Anatomy of a Term Sheet series. We are taking the model Series A term sheet from the NVCA, and analyzing the various terms in depth. The goal is to give startup founders a solid …
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In previous posts, I have provided a lot of information on various aspects of getting a startup company established. I thought it would be useful to put a lot of that information in one post, as a …
A question that would-be startup founders often ask is how they should split the equity among themselves. This is an excellent and extremely difficult question, and also one that I cannot answer for …
I just came across this article by Rebekah Campbell, on a topic of crucial importance to entrepreneurs -- how to divvy up ownership interests in a startup. Campbell is an Australian entrepreneur, and …
