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If You Control the Board, You Control the Company(flux.law)
2 points by finsrud 3d ago|1 comments
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Series Seed (Sane Edition): The Goldilocks Financing for Seed-Stage Startups(flux.law)
2 points by finsrud 6mo ago|0 comments
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When the Thing You Built Is Breaking – and So Are You(flux.law)
3 points by finsrud 6mo ago|1 comments
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by finsrud 6mo ago
A startup lawyer's honest take on founder mental health during company distress — with real science and real tools.
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by finsrud 7y ago
Most startups on the venture track aren't profitable or reinvest any profits into growing the business. No profits = no tax. So double taxation usually isn't a problem.
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by finsrud 7y ago
True. But the 5 year holding period doesn't start until conversion to a c-corp. So, plan accordingly.
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by finsrud 7y ago
I love Stripe. And I agree that Atlas makes incorporation process quite easy. But when I hear about a SaaS startup being organized as an LLC, I wonder if the founders considered the potential benefits of "qualified small business stock
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by finsrud 7y ago
I know these situations can be painful, (and there may be concerns re: confidentiality), but I really wish more founders would share a bit more detail describing what went wrong. This kind of candor would be hugely valuable to other founder
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by finsrud 7y ago
> It seems that Ad business is eating up all the talent over there... Yes, and trying to catch up with Amazon on cloud services.
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by finsrud 7y ago
Yes! We've held off on adopting Slack because Hangouts Chat seemed promising. But here we are almost 3 years since it was introduced and there's still no integration with Gmail. Argh! To add insult to injury, while we're stuc
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by finsrud 7y ago
Here's a plain English explanation from Joel Spolsky: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-pr...
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by finsrud 7y ago
I've used https://simplenote.com/ for ~5 years because it's clean, fast, cross-platform, supports Markdown, has decent search and tagging features, and it's free & open source. Every day I open a new note
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by finsrud 7y ago
If you happen to be in California... Section 2872 of the California Labor Code prohibits your employer from taking ownership of anything that you develop entirely on your own time without using your employer's equipment, supplies, faci
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by finsrud 7y ago
The audiobook is excellent as several members of the cast make appearances.
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by finsrud 7y ago
Two  menu bar apps: - Shush : Quickly mute and unmute your microphone using a hotkey (e.g. fn). - Clocker : Easy way to keep track of your friends and colleagues in different time zones.
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by finsrud 7y ago
We recently went down this rabbit hole. We extensively tested each of the following: - http://notion.so/ - https://slab.com/ - https://getoutline.com/ - https://gitbook.com/
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by finsrud 7y ago
This.
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by finsrud 7y ago
See if your employer would be open to using GitHub's open source employee IP agreement: https://github.com/github/balanced-employee-ip-agreement . It's a bit more balanced than the standard IP Agreements most
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by finsrud 7y ago
Read your company's stock option plan. Most stock option plans have language that auto-adjusts all outstanding option awards in the same proportion as the stock split. For example, if the company did a 1:5 stock split, your option aw
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The #1 thing you can do to make selling your company as smooth as possible(rubiconlaw.com)
1 points by finsrud 7y ago|0 comments
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How to Make Startup Stock Options a Better Deal for Employees(hbr.org)
3 points by finsrud 7y ago|0 comments