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I’m a first-time Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Can you recommend a good place to go to find online legal documents for setting up my company?
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We’re looking at bringing on a VP of sales, and I was thinking about providing a 0.75 – 1% equity stake with a 3 year vesting period. Is this about right? We’re pre-funding right now.
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I have a question about angel investment. Is it more often the case that angels will invest in a company for equity or for convertible notes? Also, does this differ between institutional angels vs. individual angels?
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How do you go about finding a really good PR firm? What should you look for?
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One of our founders asked, “Do you know where I can download an NDA and an agreement for the assignment of inventions. I just need the basic boilerplate documents.
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QUESTION:
Can I simply abandon a California corp and leave it blowing in the wind? I started a company a while back, and it didn’t work out. Since then, I’ve moved on to another profitable venture. Instead of bothering to close down the old company, can I simply abandon it. What will happen? Am I liable for anything like taxes?
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Ken Ruck
Advior & NY Chapter Leader
Ken Ruck is a Digital Media Executive with product development experience in online, mobile content, digital media distribution, virtual worlds, online & mobile advertising, and consumer product integration with digital experiences.
Dave Samuel
David Samuel is an experienced executive with a proven ability to identify market trends and build companies from the ground up. He has repeated success providing significant investor ROI.
A serial entrepreneur and Internet pioneer, Dave has specialized in software & media since 1994. His success comes as a result of his strong technical background, ability to manage large teams, and adept leadership to adjust company direction while navigating through volatile or unchartered markets
QUESTION:
What should I do if a laid-off employee won’t return his laptop to the company? It has confidential information on it, and it’s a company laptop.
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Josh Felser
I worked in old media at News Corp for 4 years, new media as co-founder and president of Spinner – the first multi-channel Internet radio service and co-founder and CEO of Grouper/Crackle – one of the first Internet video networks. Both companies were acquired in under 3 years and sold for $320mm (AOL) and $65mm (Sony Pictures) respectively.
My partner from Spinner and Grouper, Dave Samuel, and I recently started an early stage VC called Freestyle Capital to fill the void between retreating angels and VCs moving to later stage investments.
