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Legal Tips for Your Startup

August 6, 2008

In my opinion there are two really daunting challenges every entrepreneur faces with their startup; navigating legal issues like corporate structure, operating agreements, etc, and financial/accounting issues like dealing with sales tax, income taxes etc.

With either issue, it is generally worth your while to pay a quality, well-referenced professional to get things smoothed over for you.

The problem? Generally, it will cost you a pretty good chunk of change. When you’re just starting out, and low on cash, you may not want to pay high consulting fees just to get yourself up to speed on everything you should be concerned with. So what’s the solution?

Well, I was excited to meet Ryan Roberts at this week’s Dallas Startup Happy Hour. Ryan runs his own law practice and focuses on corporate law, securities and mergers & acquisitions. He also happens to be the author of The Startup Lawyer, a blog about the legal issues surrounding startups and entrepreneurship.

Ryan has authored many helpful and insightful posts on topics like pre and post money valuations and what they mean, how Series FF stock can provide founders liquidity at funding, why investors like C corporations more than other business entities and much more.

Some of you might be thinking, well I’ve heard all that before, and maybe you have. However, I’ve noticed that Ryan really tries to get across the “why this is important and you should know about it” rather than just rattling of the details of how corporate mergers work, etc.

So, if you have some legal questions and are looking for some tips and information for your startup, you should check out The Startup Lawyer.

Written by Bradley Joyce · Filed Under Startups 

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