Startup Law and Fundraising for Entrepreneurs and Startup Advisors

by Paul Swegle
Startup Law and Fundraising for Entrepreneurs and Startup Advisors
Author: Paul Swegle
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-07-22
Genre:
ISBN: 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.

Acceleration

by Ryan Roberts
Acceleration
Author: Ryan Roberts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2019
Genre: New business enterprises
ISBN: 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.

Business Law for Entrepreneurs

by Margo E.K. Reder
Business Law for Entrepreneurs
Author: Margo E.K. Reder
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2021-03-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 178990255X
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Business Law for Entrepreneurs covers the unique business and legal issues of startups and small businesses. This cutting-edge textbook provides students with the competence and practical insights required to identify and respond to emerging challenges in our rapidly evolving business and legal environment.

How to Start a Startup

by ThinkApps (Firm)
How to Start a Startup
Author: ThinkApps (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2016-02-17
Genre: High technology industries
ISBN: 9780997268515
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New startups are created every day around the word, with many founders dreaming of millions of users and billions of dollars. But the harsh reality is that very few will succeed. How can entrepreneurs stack the odds in their favor? By learning from the experiences of startup founders, executives, and investors who've been there before. That's exactly what "How to Start a Startup" provides, sharing essential lessons from 25+ Silicon Valley insiders who've faced the challenges of starting a new business and come out swinging. Based on a Stanford University course taught by Y Combinator (the prestigious startup accelerator behind companies like Dropbox and Airbnb), this in-depth reference guide features advice from experts like: - Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder - Dustin Moskovitz, Facebook co-founder - Paul Graham, Y Combinator co-founder - Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, co-founders of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm - Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Founders Fund, early Facebook investor - Ben Silbermann, Pinterest co-founder and CEO Nominated as "Book of the Year" by Product Hunt (the leading Silicon Valley community for discovering the best new products), "How to Start a Startup" reveals the secrets to raising money, building products users love, hiring a great team, getting press coverage, attracting customers, growing your business, and more. No matter what type of product you're creating (web, mobile, hardware, online-to-offline, etc.) or what audience you're targeting (consumers or the enterprise), this playbook will give you all the information necessary to launch and scale a successful startup. This book was created independently by the publishers and all net proceeds will go to support charitable causes promoting wider access to opportunity for all.

Mentoring Startups

by George Vukotich, Ph.d.
Mentoring Startups
Author: George Vukotich, Ph.d.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2016-10-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781537792194
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Mentoring Startups is a unique book. While there are many books on mentoring this is the only one that focuses on mentoring startups. With the growth in individuals starting and running their own companies the challenge of how to find mentors that can help has become a top priority. Unlike a corporate environment where programs are designed with timelines and assigned mentors, the startup world leaves the entrepreneur on their own to find the help and resources they need. This book goes into detail on both sides of the equation. It helps the mentee/entrepreneur understand what it takes to find the right kind of mentor at the right time and it also helps the potential mentor understand how to use the skills they have developed to help the entrepreneur. For mentors having skills is one thing, being able to use them effectively is another Bringing both the mentor and mentee together so they can have an effective relationship is the key to success. This book looks at how to find the right mentor, how to get the relationship off to a good start, and what to do if things get off-track. It provides a number of tools to keep the relationship focused and gives guidance on what to do when. It is a resource to use on an ongoing basis to keep the relationship progressing forward. George Vukotich, Ph.D. works with startups and the incubators and accelerators that help them become more successful. After a successful career in larger organizations including; IBM, Accenture, and BP he moved into higher education where he developed an interest in disruption and innovation which led him to the startup world. As the Senior Vice-President of 1871 he built the programs that were responsible for it being recognized as the #1 incubator in the U.S. His work included the design of mentoring programs and the recruiting and development of over 500 mentors in a wide range of areas that gave the 400 plus member companies the guidance and direction they needed. His work also included the design of the overall education process, workshops, and networking. He is frequently contacted by incubators from around the world for his expertise and is often referred to as; "The man behind making 1871 run." He is on the advisory board of a number of companies and works to help improve the startup eco-system. Feel free to reach out to George at his LinkedIn link: https: //www.linkedin.com/in/georgevukotich

Founder, Jd

by Raffi Garnighian
Founder, Jd
Author: Raffi Garnighian
Publisher: New Degree Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2019-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781641371780
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Lawyers have left a major mark on the startup ecosystem, but perhaps not as you'd imagine.Their biggest mark is as Founders.In their new book Founder, JD, authors Eric Koester and Raffi Garnighian examine more than 400 startup founders who have also earned a law degree in order to uncover the surprising impact of their contributions across some of the largest ventures, funds and companies in the startup ecosystem. Throughout their research, they uncover a treasure trove of stories from some of the most successful lawyers-turned-founders and share an effective framework for how lawyers and law students can leverage their legal skills, experiences and connections to make their own similar leap into the startup world.As Founder, JDs themselves, Koester and Garnighian share real world insights from other successful Founder, JDs including: * removing the stigma lawyers often face when entering the business world, * leveraging the power of thinking like a lawyer, and* unlocking the keys to making one's startup a success in ventures inside and outside the legal professio

Legal Tech, Smart Contracts and Blockchain

by Marcelo Corrales
Legal Tech, Smart Contracts and Blockchain
Author: Marcelo Corrales
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2019-02-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9811360863
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There is a broad consensus amongst law firms and in-house legal departments that next generation “Legal Tech” – particularly in the form of Blockchain-based technologies and Smart Contracts – will have a profound impact on the future operations of all legal service providers. Legal Tech startups are already revolutionizing the legal industry by increasing the speed and efficiency of traditional legal services or replacing them altogether with new technologies. This on-going process of disruption within the legal profession offers significant opportunities for all business. However, it also poses a number of challenges for practitioners, trade associations, technology vendors, and regulators who often struggle to keep up with the technologies, resulting in a widening regulatory “gap.” Many uncertainties remain regarding the scope, direction, and effects of these new technologies and their integration with existing practices and legacy systems. Adding to the challenges is the growing need for easy-to-use contracting solutions, on the one hand, and for protecting the users of such solutions, on the other. To respond to the challenges and to provide better legal communications, systems, and services Legal Tech scholars and practitioners have found allies in the emerging field of Legal Design. This collection brings together leading scholars and practitioners working on these issues from diverse jurisdictions. The aim is to introduce Blockchain and Smart Contract technologies, and to examine their on-going impact on the legal profession, business and regulators.