Week 5 reading for The Business of Entrepreneurship (LAWS 61702)

Week 5 (April 28)


Topic: Representing startups as corporate counsel. Guest speaker: Peter Werner from Cooley Godward Kronish.

Readings:

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:

• "BigCo Warning Letter"
• "BigCo PIIA"
• “How to Save Money Running a Startup" - blog post by Jason Calacanis
• DGCL 141(b)
• "409A Government Maximus Interruptus" - blog post by Brad Feld, The Foundry Group
• 409A Cooley Alert series

For reference (won't be discussed directly in class, but will be helpful for your practice)

• NVCA docs link: http://www.nvca.org/model_documents/model_docs.html
• Corporate counsel: http://www.thecorporatecounsel.net/home/
• SLD: http://www.law.uc.edu/CCL/index.html
• Potter Anderson's DGCL reference guide for handheld devices: http://www.potteranderson.com/edelaware.html