Q: I have read the your article on typical compensation for senior management of venture backed companies. There was no mention of severance and length of contract terms. Can you opine? A: (Jason) Most everyone in the startup world is an at-will employee and does not have an employment contract. For those of you unfamiliar, […]
One company that draws a lot of questions is Google. Specifically, folks have questions regarding the fact pattern of their initial public offering. We weren’t investors in the company, so we generally don’t get involved answering these, but today my friends Mike Sullivan and Julia Vax from Howard Rice sent me this nugget: “Google’s IPO […]
Q: If an entrepreneur is out meeting with people in order to find investors in a round of financing, is this “soliciting” investments in the eyes of the SEC? It is my understanding that the SEC doesn’t permit solicitations” unless there is a pre-existing relationship. Therefore, if the entrepreneur doesn’t have a pre-existing relationship before he starts making […]
We get a ton of legal questions on this site. We can’t answer them because if we act as your lawyers, you can sue us. That would not be fun. However, fear not, there is a GREAT book on most all of the issues that affect the entrepreneur. The Entrepreneurs Guide to Business Law. The book’s co-author […]
Q: How do/will market corrections like we’ve seen in the US affect venture funds and venture funding, even if concerns are supposedly only about the housing credit market? A: (Jason). No one can say for sure, but some folks think the credit crunch will be helpful to VC fund raising. The idea is that with […]
Today’s great post is from Bill Burnham regarding his take on the potential tax changes how they may impact entrepreneurs as well. I think Bill makes some good points and clearly his interactive panel sounds like it was interesting, if nothing else.
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