7 Startup Agreements That Save Companies (and Friendships) | Signus

Founders Hub | Transform Finance

The founder playbook for building a company that lasts and stays true to why you started it. Research, case studies, and practical tools for incorporation, fundraising terms, board structure, ownership, and culture.

YC Safe Financing Documents | Y Combinator

Information about startup documents, including the safe (simple agreement for future equity).

Three essential contracts that protect a startup’s intellectual property – Fisher Hudson Brown Horton

Idaho and California startups should be aware of which types of contracts are essential to protect their intellectual property.

Startup idea checklist

I’ve been tinkering with different startup ideas and needed a good checklist to think through them. There are great templates for this already: The YC application, Amazon’s internal press release, and Sequoia’s Writing a Business Plan. I found myself mixing and tweaking these templates because they don’t exactly match my model of the world, so I wrote up my own list.

Open Source Startup: Why We Give Away All Our IP 🐝

Interview with Richard D. Bartlett, Loomio cofounder. Reposted with permission from Straight Up, a monthly startup resource that tackles…

NDAs for Startups: A Guide for Founders | Stripe

Here’s a guide to NDAs for startups—from why your startup might need an NDA to what happens if one is breached.

What Your Startup Needs to Know about Intellectual Property

7 things your startup business should know to protect your intellectual property and avoid litigation. To protect, prevent, contain, and obtain redress for your intellectual property – contact our law firm today!

Interviews with Failed & Successful Startup Founders

+200 interviews with the brains behind shut down and active startups. Learn from their wins and their mistakes and become a better founder.

Idea Generation

The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for their startup. But giving founders an idea...

12 Things I Learned from Chris Dixon about Startups | Andreessen Horowitz

#1 “If everyone loves your idea, I might be worried that it’s not forward thinking enough.”  Anyone thinking about starting a business should be searching for mispriced opportunities.  While markets are mostly efficient in eliminating opportunities for extraordinary profit, there are always areas of an economy in which there are significant uncertainty. These areas are...

Startup Mistakes: First-Hand Lessons from 80+ Failed Startups

We've analyzed why +80 startups have failed and identified some of their common mistakes. Here're our findings!

All Things Sales! 16 Mini-Lessons for Startup Founders | Andreessen Horowitz

As a former CEO and software engineer (Citrix, XenSource, VERITAS, etc.), board member of GitHub (recently acquired by Microsoft), and lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Busines, a16z general partner Peter Levine is constantly asked “Why sales?” by entrepreneurs and technical founders. He himself used to hold the “engineer-centric” view that if...

Sidecar funds, corporate vehicles, club deals: how do startup studios get financed?

As explained in The Rise of Startup Studios, a white paper published by The Global Startup Studio Network in 2019, the term “startup…

Introducing The Unusual Method

From Unusual Ventures’ inception, our mission has been clear: to redefine seed stage investing and build a firm that would provide founders with a distinct advantage through the hardest leg of a startup journey—from Idea to Product Market fit. Today we’ve taken an important step towards fulfilling our mission. We are proud to officially make available The Unusual Method and our Unusual Field Guide.

When To Join A Startup

<p>Something has changed in the last few years which has made an increasing number of people want to join startups. It seemed to start around ...