The structure of securities law tends to makes it more challenging to operate in stealth mode when raising money from investors
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Learning how to handle equity grants to advisors will help you keep your advisors happy without compromising your cap table.
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Read about the non-compete statutory earnings threshold updates for 2022 recently issued by L&I.
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An easy strategy for making your SaaS customer agreements do the most work for you.
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Limited liability is a valuable risk management tool for entrepreneurs, but it is not a cure all.
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Your startup probably needs to pay its founders minimum wage from the start. But it probably won’t until raising outside capital. Find out if this is a problem (hint: it may be).
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Admit it—you or someone you know has probably done this at some point. But how bad is it really?
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Welcome to the glamorous world of incorporation mechanics.
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Common stock does not sound exciting. Preferred stock does. First-time founders are looking for excitement—especially when it comes to their millions of initial shares—and so they’re often surprised to hear that they’ll be receiving common, rather than preferred stock when the startup is incorporated.
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Warning: basic arithmetic inside.
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When it comes to stock option grants, it’s much easier and cheaper to set up a system up front to do this correctly than it is to try to troubleshoot down the road.
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Startups should set up a data room as soon as possible where all of its legal documents will live in a structure meant to facilitate due diligence.
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