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Sustainable Startups - How Can Founders and Entrepreneurs Protect Themselves?

In the past article series I discussed how founders in venture backed companies lose control and find and themselves thrown out of their...

VC and Angel Contracts: Why Overoptimistic Entrepreneurs Lose Control of Their Companies - (Series P

Select Provisions of Venture Capital Contracts In the previous posts I have been discussing some ways entrepreneurs and startups can...

VC and Angel Contracts: Why Over-Optimistic Entrepreneurs Lose Control of Their Companies - (Series

Board Control in a Venture Backed Company Over the last couple of posts I have described a common scenario wherein an entrepreneur loses...

VC and Angel Contracts: Why Over-Optimistic Entrepreneurs Lose Control of Their Companies - (Series

Typical Venture Capital Contracts and Agreements Common v. Preferred Shares With venture capital’s checkered past, that includes changing...

VC and Angel Contracts: Why Over-Optimistic Entrepreneurs Lose Control of Their Companies - (Series

"In a sense, venture-capitalist financed firms are much like a marriage, in that the partners come to learn much about each other only...

Preferred Stock

Preferred stock is represents an ownership interest that has a higher claim on company income and assets than common stock. Preferred...

Common Stock

Common stock is a type of security representing a percentage of ownership in a company. This is the most prevalent type of security used...

Founder's Disease

Also referred to as Founder's syndrome or founderitis. As a company grows the initial founder(s) do not gain the necessary skill set to...

Living Dead!! (AHHH)

Venture Firms try to avoid “the living dead,” also referred to as a “zombie company” or “sideways situation,” which is a profitable...

Accredited Investor

An accredited investor is a legal term defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Rule 501 of Regulation D. It means that...