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Orrick – Start-Up Tool Kit – Term Sheet Creator – Start-Up Forms Library

There are many items useful to entrepreneurs on the site including:

  • Example cap (capitalization) table spreadsheet
  • Term Sheet Creator
  • Non-disclosure Agreements
  • Employment Agreements
  • Stock Option plans
  • Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement for Employees & Consultants

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Financing Your Startup: How to Sell Stock without Going to Jail

As the founder of a startup, one of the first issues you need to address is how to finance your company’s operations.  If you are lucky enough to be able to fund your startup out-of-pocket, or through generous family members, congratulations.  You can probably skip the rest of this post and get back to building your business.  However, if you are like most founders, you won’t be able to self-fund your company entirely and your revenues won’t exist yet, or won’t be adequate to grow the company.  In some instances you may be able to obtain or if you have some type of hard asset or significant ac
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Crowdfunding Gets a Hearing in the U.S. House

Washington, D.C. (Press Release – September 15, 2011) – Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council) member and entrepreneur Sherwood “Woodie” Neiss brings his Crowd Fund Investing (CFI) framework to a congressional hearing today, where there is growing support to modernize outdated security laws that prevent small business owners from tapping into their networks for raising capital. Today, the U.S. House Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs is hosting “Crowdfunding: Connecting Investors and Job Creators” where they will hear from Nei
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How Does A Small Angel Investment Impact a Future VC Round?

Q: Say I have an angel (SEC accredited) who’s ready to invest at an amount well below $100k. How would this impact on a future round with VCs? Is there some standard or average pre-money and post-money that happens in angel deals? Also, the angel in question is a family member of a friend, so would it be better to have them invest as a family/friend financier rather than an angel, and how exactly would that work? A: (Brad) Let me address the last question first.  There is no real difference between a “family/friend” investor and an “angel” investor other than semantics.  Structurally….
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IP Law For Startups — Lessons on trade secret, trademark, copyright & patent law for entrepreneurs

IP Law for Startups is a blog that gives general, educational information about intellectual property law and explains the most common pitfalls and m
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Building an Advisory Board – ReadWriteStart

The term “Board” may be confusing here. This is not a Board Of Directors. Nor is it a couple of your buddies. Nor is it someone who gives you one s
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Everything startups ever wanted to know about advisors, Part 1 – Venture Hacks

Here are answers to some frequently asked questions about advisors.

1. What do advisors do?
2. Should I put together a boar
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Company Registration Choices – ReadWriteStart

Should you set up an LLC, C Corp, or S Corp. And in what state should you register? These are some of the questions we’ll consider in our overview o
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Stock for Legal Fees with a Startup Lawyer | The Startup Lawyer

Stock for Attorney Fees? This situation arises when a startup company offers stock to a lawyer in exchange for legal services. I’ve derived the foll
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The Founder Institute: Helping Founders to Build Great Companies

The Funded Founder Institute has created a new class of common stock to protect founders, “Class F.” The stock offers Founders a suite of protectiv
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