Legal and financial startup resources

A curated list of great legal and financial resources for entrepreneurs.

Incorporation

  1. 1 What type of entity should I form? 4
  2. 2 What state should I incorporate in? 1
  3. 3 Startup Documents 3
  4. 4 Model Seed Funding Documents 1
  5. 5 Free legal documents 3

Founder's stock and general stock issues

  1. 1 How dilution works 0
  2. 2 Vesting 4
  3. 3 How to make a cap table 3
  4. 4 What is an 83(b) election? 0

Equity and options for employees

  1. 1 Employee Equity and options 0
  2. 2 The Option Pool Shuffle 1
  3. 3 Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly? 0

Advisory boards & boards of directors

  1. 1 Everything about advisors 1
  2. 2 Board Member & advisor board compensation 2

Angel/seed fundraising

  1. 1 Setting a valuation in a seed round 1
  2. 2 Type of angel investors 2
  3. 3 Finding a lead investor 2
  4. 4 Should startups raise angel rounds using a convertible note or preferred stock 2
  5. 5 Bothsides of the Table 2
  6. 6 Should you take seed money from a large VC 0
  7. 7 Only raise from accredited investors 0

OS angel/seed fundraising documents

  1. 1 Y combinator (WSGR) 0
  2. 2 TechStars (cooley) 0
  3. 3 SeriesSeed (Fenwick and West) 0
  4. 4 Founders Institute (WSGR) 1

Convertible Notes

  1. 1 How Convertible Notes Work 0
  2. 2 Interest rate on convertible notes 0
  3. 3 Convertible note discount price cap 0
  4. 4 Valuation cap on convertible notes explained 0

Venture financing Mechanics

  1. 1 Sample VC term sheet 3
  2. 2 Series explaining key terms in vc term sheets 0
  3. 3 WSGR term sheet generator 1

Venture financing advice

  1. 1 Don't send NDA's or full business plans 0
  2. 2 Creating competition to get better terms 0

General fundraising advice

  1. 1 Right and wrong times to try to raise money 0

Pitching

  1. 1 Elevator pitch for emails 4
  2. 2 Pitch deck contents 2
  3. 3 How to Pitch a VC 2
  4. 4 Pitch Deck 3
  5. 5 How to deliver a great pitch 1

Accounting and budgeting

  1. 1 The Profit and Loss Statement 1
  2. 2 Do VC's require audited financials 0
  3. 3 Startup budgeting 3
  4. 4 How to save money running a startup 1

Hiring

  1. 1 How employees should evaluate job offers 1
  2. 2 An employee offer letter 1
  3. 3 Benchmarks for employee/founder compensation 1
  4. 4 Benchmarks for employee compensation 1
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