Orrick has put together a really nice set of business plan guidelines, and they have been nice enough to make it available to everyone on Founders Space.
Orrick Materials – Business Plan Guidelines for Founders Space – May 2011
This plan was put together with the idea of startups pitching venture capitalists for funding.
QUESTION:
I would like to incorporate a value-added engineering software reseller business. It would be a Pennsylvania based company of about 15-25 employees working out of their home offices (no corporate office). The business involves sales representatives and technical employees delivering on-site training, demonstrations, and technical support. Would it make more sense to set up an LLC or an S-Corp?
ANSWER:
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Topic: Start-up Secrets: What to Share & When (to validate your concept, understand the marketplace, put relationships in place).
To sign up please visit http://foundersspacesvapr2011.eventbrite.com/
Presenters: Rama Sekhar of Norwest Venture Partners, Bilal Ahmed of @mytweetmark and @homecookme, and Lowell Ness and Joseph Perkins of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.
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Topic: The Cool Factor: How to Attract Talent, VCs and Advisors to Your Startup
Rama Sekhar
Rama focuses on early to late stage venture investments across a wide range of sectors at NVP. Before joining NVP in 2009, Rama was an Associate at Comcast Interactive Capital where he conducted due diligence on early and growth stage investment opportunities in the Digital Media, Internet, and Communications Infrastructure sectors.
Prior to Comcast Interactive Capital, Rama was a Product Manager at Cisco Systems, where he defined product strategy and roadmaps for $1B revenue products including the GSR 12000 Series and CRS-1 routers. Rama’s clients included international telecom and cable service providers including Verizon Business, British Telecom, and several providers in the Indian telecommunications market. Previously, Rama was a Sales Engineer at Cisco Systems supporting AT&T, where he sold the core and edge networking equipment that comprises AT&T’s national IP backbone.
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