Mayfield & First Round Capital Host Entrepreneur Event
Mayfield Fund has partnered with First Round Capital to host a networking event with the theme Entrepreneurs Helping Entrepreneurs. The two firms have assembled a dream team of founders including Jay Adelson/Digg, Caterina Fake/Flickr, Aaron Patzer/Mint, Gina Bianchini/Ning, Max Levchin/Slide and Mark Pincus/Zynga who have donated mentoring sessions, which will be raffled off at the event.
To participate in the raffle, entrepreneurs need to go to www.mayfield.com/raffle and fill out a short online application. Raj... Continue Reading
Five compensation-related mistakes startups make (and should avoid)
(Editor’s note: Caine Moss is a corporate and securities partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.)
In our startup practice, we see a number of common mistakes entrepreneurs make as they establish and grow their companies. Not surprisingly, many of these are made in the course of compensating employees and other service providers, which is a key area of activity early in a company’s life cycle.
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Ask the attorney: What sort of stock should I give my angel investor?
(Editor’s note: “Ask the Attorney” is a weekly VentureBeat feature allowing start-up owners to get answers to their legal questions. Submit yours in the comments below and look for answers in the coming weeks. Author Scott Edward Walker is the founder and CEO of Walker Corporate Law Group, PLLC, a boutique corporate law firm specializing in the representation of entrepreneurs.)
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