Startup Law and Fundraising for Entrepreneurs and Startup Advisors

Startup Law and Fundraising for Entrepreneurs and Startup Advisors

Author: Paul Swegle

Publisher:

Published: 2020-07-22

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578236704

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Entrepreneurship can be chaotic. Some chaos drives innovation. But legal chaos rocks many startups to their foundations, dashing dreams, jeopardizing jobs and investments, creating liabilities, and slowing innovation. Paul Swegle wrote Startup Law and Fundraising for Entrepreneurs and Startup Advisors to help startups avoid these pitfalls, including the pitfall of struggling to grow a poorly funded business. This is a practical book meant to help entrepreneurs and their advisors:-build on a solid foundation, -avoid costly legal and regulatory mistakes, and -raise the money needed for stability, innovation, and operational success. Startup Law and Fundraising is for everyone interested in business, business law, and startup fundraising. Its 550 pages cover an unmatched range of startup-focused concepts, tips, traps, strategies, and best practices. Fifty-one colorful startup case studies keep things interesting.Legal, governance and regulatory hurdles are covered in the book's first ten chapters. But surviving those hurdles is no guarantee of success. Many startups simply run out of money. Others are bedeviled by ill-advised early funding rounds. Startup Law and Fundraising devotes five chapters to creating and executing a fundraising plan around the principles of just-in-time finance and raising money from the right investors, in the right amounts, and on the right terms, whether from friends and family, angel investors, angel investing groups, seed funds, VCs, strategic investors, accelerators, or crowdfunding platforms.The final chapters fittingly cover the final chapters of startup life - optimizing an "exit" with a successful IPO or sale, or, as happens about 80% of the time, managing through insolvency and winding up.Startup Law and Fundraising provides the foundation for an entrepreneurial law and finance class at any level, including law school, MBA, undergraduate business, community college, or startup incubator.


Do Protect

Do Protect

Author: Johnathan Rees

Publisher: Do Book Company

Published: 2014-05-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781907974151

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The best companies are formed around a simple but great idea. As this idea develops and is introduced to the world, it needs to be nurtured and protected. Do Protect offers clear and accessible legal advice and explanations on all aspects of setting up, running and growing your own business, including: • Intellectual Property Rights • Raising finance • Dealing with customers and suppliers • E-commerce and social media • Building a team • Selling your business Do Protect is essential reading for anyone starting their own business. Get the legalities right, then focus on the fun stuff. Build your business on a strong foundation.


Law for Startups

Law for Startups

Author: Marcus Van Geyzel

Publisher: MPH Group Publishing Sdn Bhd

Published:

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 9674154655

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This book is essential reading for entrepreneurs who are planning on starting a business to introduce their ideas and solutions to the world, or those who already have an early-stage startup with plans to grow their business even more. Law for Startups will equip you with the knowledge of all the key legal issues you need to be aware of as a startup founder, including: • Why you need a lawyer, and how to engage a good one; • The right approach to legal matters; • Which business vehicle is best for your business; • Basics of company law, including the relevant changes to the Companies Act in 2017; • Understanding a typical term sheet and shareholders' agreement; • Fundamental employment law; and • Common legal issues faced by entrepreneurs. Getting the legal fundamentals right will allow you to focus your time and effort on what you do best: building and growing your business to its fullest potential.


Dead on Arrival

Dead on Arrival

Author: Roger Royse

Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing

Published: 2012-03

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1457509806

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"Dead on Arrival: Avoiding the Legal Mistakes That Could Kill Your Start-Up takes you through the legal mistakes that start-up companies and their lawyers make on their way to success and how to avoid making those mistakes. Some of these missteps can be rectified, but many will result in your start-up company being Dead on Arrival when it looks for financing or acquisition opportunities. Know what those mistakes are and how to avoid falling victim to the blunders that cause companies to fail. This book is a must read for every start-up entrepreneur and lawyer in the start-up space"--Unedited summary from book cover.


Acceleration

Acceleration

Author: Ryan Roberts

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9781544513935

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When you're launching a startup, one of the most important elements is the legal work involved. Unfortunately, it's easy for many entrepreneurs to ignore startup legal work or make costly mistakes that could derail their business before it gets off the ground. But now there's help. In Acceleration, corporate attorney Ryan Roberts guides you thro.


Legal Foundation for Startups

Legal Foundation for Startups

Author: Suyash Manjul

Publisher: Kathachitra Publication

Published: 2014-07-11

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 9382001123

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India is a very complex business regime, so much so that it always ranks in the last few countries in the "ease of doing business" surveys. This position has not improved in the many years and will take time to change even when a new business friendly regime is in place. The problem of complex legal system is compounded by lack of basic legal knowledge on part of the public and entrepreneurs. Mostly, legal issues in any business are over looked even by the incubators and accelerators. While providing state of the start facilities they totally ignore the need for quality legal services. While things are not going to change any time soon, there is a solution whereby the founders can learn the basic legal principle of business in India and things that will prove helpful in taking sound legal decisions. This book is a step in that direction and introduces the necessities of Indian law to the entrepreneurs and students in a short and precise manner (so that valuable time is not lost). This book is written while keeping entrepreneurs in mind, it is highly useful even to those who want to learn legal principles of business. THE BOOK HAS BEEN UPDATES WITH INPUTS FROM REVIEWERS.


Startup CEO

Startup CEO

Author: Matt Blumberg

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 1119723663

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You’re only a startup CEO once. Do it well with Startup CEO, a "master class in building a business." —Dick Costolo, Former CEO, Twitter Being a startup CEO is a job like no other: it’s difficult, risky, stressful, lonely, and often learned through trial and error. As a startup CEO seeing things for the first time, you’re likely to make mistakes, fail, get things wrong, and feel like you don’t have any control over outcomes. Author Matt Blumberg has been there, and in Startup CEO he shares his experience, mistakes, and lessons learned as he guided Return Path from a handful of employees and no revenues to over $100 million in revenues and 500 employees. Startup CEO is not a memoir of Return Path's 20-year journey but a thoughtful CEO-focused book that provides first-time CEOs with advice, tools, and approaches for the situations that startup CEOs will face. You'll learn: How to tell your story to new hires, investors, and customers for greater alignment How to create a values-based culture for speed and engagement How to create business and personal operating systems so that you can balance your life and grow your company at the same time How to develop, lead, and leverage your board of directors for greater impact How to ensure that your company is bought, not sold, when you exit Startup CEO is the field guide every CEO needs throughout the growth of their company.


Straight Talk for Startups

Straight Talk for Startups

Author: Randy Komisar

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2018-06-05

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0062869078

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"Straight Talk for Startups memorializes age-old best practices and empowers both experienced and new investment professionals to beat the odds."—David Krane, CEO, Google Ventures "Straight Talk for Startups is filled with real, raw, and fact-based ‘rules of the road’ that you need to know when diving into our ultra-competitive startup world. A must read and a re-read!"—Tony Fadell, Coinventor of the iPod/iPhone & Founder of Nest Labs Veteran venture capitalist Randy Komisar and finance executive Jantoon Reigersman share no-nonsense, counterintuitive guidelines to help anyone build a successful startup. Over the course of their careers, Randy Komisar and Jantoon Reigersman continue to see startups crash and burn because they forget the timeless lessons of entrepreneurship. But, as Komisar and Reigersman show, you can beat the odds if you quickly learn what insiders know about what it takes to build a healthy foundation for a thriving venture. In Straight Talk for Startups they walk budding entrepreneurs through 100 essential rules—from pitching your idea to selecting investors to managing your board to deciding how and when to achieve liquidity. Culled from their own decades of experience, as well as the experiences of their many successful colleagues and friends, the rules are organized under broad topics, from "Mastering the Fundamentals" and "Selecting the Right Investors," to "The Ideal Fundraise," "Building and Managing Effective Boards," and "Achieving Liquidity." Vital rules you’ll find in Straight Talk for Startups include: The best ideas originate from founders who are users Create two business plans: an execution plan and an aspirational plan Net income is an option, but cash flow is a fact Don’t accept money from strangers Personal wealth doesn’t equal good investing Small boards are better than big ones Add independent board members for expertise and objectivity Too many unanimous board decisions are a sign of trouble Choose an acquirer, don’t wait to be chosen Learn the rules by heart so you know when to break them Filled with helpful real-life examples and specific, actionable advice, Straight Talk for Startups is the ideal handbook for anyone running, working for, or thinking about creating a startup, or just curious about what makes high-potential ventures tick.


Start-up Law

Start-up Law

Author: Alexandra Andhov

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2020-11-27

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1839108452

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This comprehensive Practical Guide provides direction on the wide array of legal questions and challenges that start-ups face. The Guide features analysis from five jurisdictions that represent a variety of legal traditions across different continents. Expert contributors address key legal issues for technology-based start-ups and entrepreneurs, as well as providing insights into the law and practice of the countries examined.