Week 4 reading for The Business of Entrepreneurship (LAWS 61702)

Week 4 (April 21)


Topics: Personnel (and documents). Compensation. Intellectual Property (NDAs, PIIs, patents); Non-competes, non-solicitation, and non-disparagement.

Readings:

These are left over from week 3 and are under the week 3 tag at Del.icio.us

• “Nine Questions to Ask a Startup” – blog post by Guy Kawasaki, Garage Technology Ventures
• “The Truth about Venture Capitalists, Part 1” – blog post by Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, Opsware, and Ning
• “The Truth about Venture Capitalists, Part 2” - blog post by Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, Opsware, and Ning
• “Build your own Cap Table” – article at Venture Hacks. (If you need help with this one, watch the video walk through.)
• “Cap Table Hygiene” – blog post by Will Price, CEO of WidgetBox, former VC

Available for free on the web, with links to them (except the employee docs) here (remember to read the comments of the blog posts): http://del.icio.us/jrodkin/laws61702:

• Proprietary Info and Inventions Agreement
• Sample MNDA
• Offer letter template
• “What are Typical Compensation Numbers” – blog post at Ask the VC
• The Sales Commission Dilemma – Inc Magazine