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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

These might include, e.g., mitigating climate change, strengthening democracy, enforcing ethics in government, promoting national security, and protecting against information warfare. . For 2 years, I’ve been struggling to think what I can do to help make America functional again, in light of how broken our governance is.

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Our initial test market: We want to make America functional again by helping our users, such as major advocacy organizations and corporations, promote majoritarian-supported policies, e.g., mitigating climate change, strengthening democracy, enforcing ethics in government, promoting national security, and protecting against information warfare. .

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Dear Founders: Here Are Three IP Mistakes to Watch-Out For

Scott Edward Walker

In a couple of cases, the founders played lawyer on their own; in the other cases, the founders either used (i) a Web service that did not address IP issues or (ii) an inexperienced law firm. This issue is akin to trying to negotiate with a departed founder who is not subject to a vesting schedule – see post here.).

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

Both Sides of the Table

A detailed financial model that shows your anticipated revenue, costs and profits (Income Statement) as well as your balance sheet and cashflow statements. VCs (and LPs) have a vested interest in having more data, whether they want to invest in your company / firm or not. They aren’t doing this viciously?—?they

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Set any vesting schedules and expiration dates on roughly similar terms, if for no other reason just so you can track all of them correctly. Board and Governance issues arise from day one in most startups. They even create a tangled web of electronic files that are hard to unravel.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. At one extreme is the sort of pork-barrel project wherea town gets money from the state government to renovate a vacantbuilding as a "high-tech incubator," as if it were merely lack ofthe right sort of office space that had till now prevented the townfrom becoming a startup hub.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I realized that working for large companies who were fighting each other, or fighting the government, was never going to scratch that itch. Out of desperation to get out of that job, I decided to start offering web development services on my own. Thanks to Scott Hirsch, TalentMarketplace ! Why did you start your business?