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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Founded it as a California LLC but your potential VC wants a Delaware C-Corp? Forget to get around to setting up that Employee Stock Option Plan and want to be able to give the early guys their options at a low strike price? Shame about that pesky FAS 157 ruling. Oh, they didn’t cover that in your Stanford CS course?

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Weekly Firgun Newsletter – February 7 2025

VC Cafe

On the flip side, the talent that is becoming available will find its way to startups as employees or founders. ” – Dr. Seuss NEW VENTURE DEALS Congrats Alex Bouaziz and team Deel on raising $300M in a secondaries transaction, valuing the platform for remote employees at at $12B! Flash with 1M token context window.

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Start Up and Stay Up – How Small Businesses Survive & Thrive

The Startup Magazine

Since then it has grown to serve the tri-state New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware areas, but I still consider it a small business and my employees, more like a family. He recruited some of his friends from prior real estate positions and many of the employees to this day are friends and family of the original core group.

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Basic Accounting And Legal Aspects That Every Business Owner Should Know

YoungUpstarts

Secondly, if we are for example, launching our business venture in the United States, then we should think about where we should be incorporated, and there the best option is Delaware. Consequently, we should be paid employees of the company. Important to keep in mind: Working without pay is against the law and should not be done.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

For GreenPal, Gene Caballero says, “We knew that if we ever wanted to be looked at seriously by venture capitalists, we would need to be a C-Corp in Delaware.”. In fact, GreenPal wasn’t the only one that figured it was best to go for a Delaware-based C-Corp. presence via a Delaware-based C-Corp also gives non-U.S.

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More Tech Startups are LLCs

Austin Startup

Background Reading: When LLCs Make Sense for Startups Not Building a Unicorn If you have spent almost any time reading about the basics of startup legal issues, you know that Delaware C-corps are the default organizational structure for a “classic” tech startup (software, hardware) planning to raise angel/VC money and scale.

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Guns and Cyber Security

Steve Blank

It’s time to teach Cyber Security as integral part of the high school and college curriculum and to all corporate employees. I grew up in New York City and for a few years heaven on earth for me was going to Boy Scout camp in the summer near the Delaware River. We now know the basic tools online hackers use.

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