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TechWildcatters Applications Due March 19

Posted on March 08, 2010
TechWildcatters is a mentorship-driven microseed fund and startup accelerator in Dallas, Texas. Applications for the first 12-week accelerator ?bootcamp? are due March 19. The selected startups will get up to $25,000 in seed funding, intensive top-notch mentorship, and the opportunity to pitch to angel investors, venture capitalists and corporate dev teams at their biannual ?Demo [...

Model Series Seed Docs

Posted on March 02, 2010
“The Series Seed Documents are a standardized set of documents that can be quickly and easily deployed for a seed investment: to help get a company financed properly, legally, quickly, and intelligently.” The drafters, Fenwick & West and Andreessen Horowitz, imply these docs should be used for $500,000 to $1,500,000 investments...

Busy Time in Dallas

Posted on February 27, 2010
The next week is going to be extremely busy in Dallas for startups. Here’s the roster of events next week courtesy LaunchDFW: Monday March 1st ? Dallas Startup Happy Hour The first Monday means Startup Happy Hour. The Dallas Startup Happy Hour is the talk of the startup community in Dallas...

Startup-Advisor Dating

Posted on February 18, 2010
I get about 4 emails a week from law students and attorneys with questions about launching a law practice. It’s an awkward and humbling experience for me. I’m not a law practice management expert and several years ago I had many of these same questions...

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Bootstrapping 2010 by MIT Enterprise Forum

Posted on February 16, 2010
I’ll be giving a brief presentation next week when the MIT Enterprise Forum of Dallas-Fort Worth puts on Bootstrapping 2010. When: Thursday, Feb 25, 2010. 5:30-8:30pm Where: Infomart #2019 (Architel), 1950 Stemmons Freeway, Dallas 75207 Registration: $20 including dinner...

Ignite Dallas Coming March 3rd

Posted on February 04, 2010
Ignite Dallas is hosting its first event on March 3rd at the Granada Theater. What is Ignite Dallas? Five minutes, 20 slides. What would you say? At Ignite Dallas, 16 artists, technologists, thinkers, and personalities will take the stage to answer this challenge...

Never Ever Ever Ever Pay to Pitch

Posted on February 03, 2010
Your startup should never have to pay $$$ to pitch to potential investors. Period. Today, Alex Muse posted on his Texas Startup Blog about a recent encounter with an investor group asking $4,500 to pitch from ShopSavvy, one of my clients. Alex has written about why a startup should never have to pay [...

White-Label Mobile App Users: Who Owns Them?

Posted on February 03, 2010
As mobile applications continue to gain popularity, more white-label mobile app deals are popping up. And while both the startup and the large company will certainly contract with respect to intellectual property asset ownership, an asset that may be overlooked is the ownership of the white-label mobile app’s users...

Austin Ventures to Invade Dallas on 2/24

Posted on February 02, 2010
Austin Ventures is holding their “AV Entrepreneur Hours” in Dallas on Wednesday, February 24. AV Entrepreneur Hours is a chance for early stage entrepreneurs (particularly those in the internet and software space) to dictate casual conversation with the VCs from Austin Ventures in a casual environment...

The 5-Second Guide to Choosing Your Startup?s Legal Entity

Posted on February 02, 2010
Corporation. Because if you can log on to the Internet, you can handle the complexity of a corporation. Don’t be scurred.

Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start

Posted on January 31, 2010
If you recognize this post’s title, then you are always welcome at my table. For those of you in the dark, the title of this post is the secret code from the video game Contra. The Contra secret code let the video game player begin Contra with 30 lives...

Dallas Startup Happy Hour Monday 2/1

Posted on January 30, 2010
If your new year’s resolution included getting more involved with the Dallas startup ecosystem, showing up at the monthly Dallas Startup Hour this Monday (February 1) is required. Here’s the information: “Are you an entrepreneur? Do you work for a startup or small business? Looking for a job? Looking for a partner? [...

Should a Founder License IP to a Startup?

Posted on January 28, 2010
Often a startup founder will desire to license his or her intellectual property to a new startup venture, rather than transfer ownership to the startup at incorporation via a technology assignment agreement. This is a bad idea. Founder IP License Problem Even if the founder offers the startup a completely startup-favorable license, the founder IP license [...

Oppose Colorado HB 1192

Posted on January 27, 2010
Why don’t federal, state and local governments make it easier for startups to launch, grow and thrive? Colorado’s governor is proposing fast-tracking a software tax to be effective March 1. I realize these various governments need to raise tax revenue...

Lockdown Lost-Founder IP

Posted on January 26, 2010
If you won the lottery today, how many long lost relatives (that you don’t recall) would come out of the shadows of your family tree to test the generosity of their favorite relative? I’m willing to bet a few. Now if your startup received a $5MM Series A investment from a venture capital [...

Effective Pitching Seminar in Dallas-Fort Worth

Posted on January 25, 2010
My good friend Babar Bhatti, Chair of the MIT Enterprise Forum DFW Chapter and CEO/Founder of MutualMind, is hosting an “Effective Pitching” this Thursday night. Here’s the scoop from the MIT Forum site: MIT Enterprise Forum DFW Chapter is pleased to announce our January event: Effective Pitching...

Facebook is Jackin? for Vanity URLs

Posted on January 23, 2010
TechCrunch has an interesting story about how Facebook is revoking vanity URLs for violating Facebook’s policies and then giving them to companies. This isn’t your typical namesquatting case because the person’s vanity URL was /harman and the alleged namequatter’s name is Harman...

The Startup ?Hyphen? Must Die

Posted on January 21, 2010
It’s time for the entire startup world to cease spelling “startup” with a hyphen. I realize that most dictionaries have “start-up” as the main entry. But if “vlog” and “webisode” can be added to the dictionary, I’m pretty sure the startup hyphen can be eliminated from those same reference books...

TechWildcatters Launches Dallas Microseed Fund

Posted on January 20, 2010
TechWildcatters is a mentorship-driven microseed fund and startup accelerator that just launched in Dallas, Texas. TechWildcatters is now accepting applications for their first 12-week accelerator ?bootcamp? and 20 startup teams will have the opportunity to pitch on March 11, 2010...

What are ISOs?

Posted on January 19, 2010
A stock option grants you the right to purchase a certain number of shares of stock at a pre-established price. An incentive stock option (ISO) is a type of stock option that allows favorable tax treatment to the stock option holder. The main tax benefits of incentive stock options are that the option [...

Date Set For Startup Weekend Dallas 2010

Posted on January 19, 2010
Startup Weekend Dallas 2010 is scheduled for Friday April 16 to Sunday April 18th. Of course, that is the same weekend as Coachella. I grew up in the Coachella Valley and can therefore objectively tell you Startup Weekend is the better option.

Saks Does Not Take Restricted Stock

Posted on January 18, 2010
It’s no secret that a good founder team is an essential step for a successful startup venture. You hope that your co-founder has the mental toughness to stay strong through the bootstrapping process where short-term milestones typically go unrecognized and bank accounts dwindle...

How to Protect Directors on Your Startup?s Board

Posted on January 08, 2010
Startups often desire to shield members of their board of directors from personal liability in connection with their duties on the board. And sometimes potential board members are hesitant to join a startup’s board without sufficient personal liability protection...

25102(f) Notice: Only in California

Posted on January 07, 2010
Founders must pay special attention when their startup issues securities–even when those securities are issued to themselves at incorporation. Whether or not founders realize it, they are issued their founders stock via an exemption from registration at both the federal and state level...

What is Four Years With a One Year Cliff?

Posted on January 06, 2010
Four Years with a One Year Cliff is the typical vesting schedule for startup founders’ stock. Under this vesting schedule, founders will vest their shares over a total period of four years. The one year cliff means that the founders will not get vested with regards to any shares until the first anniversary [...

94,685 Thank Yous

Posted on January 06, 2010
The Startup Lawyer had 94,685 visits in 2009 and visitors spent a total of 3,603 hours on the site. Most visitors were from California (16,662), Texas (8,203), and New York (8,097). Canada (3,454), the UK (2,452), and India (1,557) lead the pack of international visits...

The Delaware Freak-Out

Posted on January 04, 2010
The New Year. For some, it’s time to reflect on the past and look forward to the future. For others, it’s time to make resolutions to change for the better. But for me, it’s time to respond to client inquiries regarding their 5-figure Delaware annual franchise tax bill due March 1...

The Startup Lawyer Re-Design Project

Posted on January 04, 2010
If you haven’t already seen, The Startup Lawyer blog has been re-designed. My vision for this blog is one that I can’t implement on my own. I had pushed the limit of my coding skills, so I opted to move the ball forward with a formal redesign project in September...

What is a Fully-Diluted Basis?

Posted on December 22, 2009
The concept of a fully-diluted basis is not difficult. A fully-diluted basis just means the assumption of the highest potential amount of common stock a startup will have outstanding, regardless of vesting provisions and assuming all options and other securities like convertible notes are converted into common stock...

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