10,000 Startups: Legal Strategies for Startup Success

Send us Fan Mail Gavin George’s practice encompasses privacy, data processing, technology transactions, and intellectual property in the information age. He counsels clients on international, federal, and state-level privacy compliance and transactional issues, including those related to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). A designated C...

Send us Fan Mail Olga V. Mack talks about artificial intelligence. Digital Transformation Executive | Above the Law + ACC Docket Legal Tech & Future of Law Columnist | 3x TEDx Speaker | Berkeley Law Lecturer | Notes to My (Legal) Self Podcast Host. https://www.linkedin.com/in/olgamack/

Send us Fan Mail Ian Peck handles complex Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, out-of-court workouts, and distressed mergers and acquisitions transactions across range of industries. Ian understands that debt restructuring or bankruptcy can often be the most stressful and critical event in a client’s history and he brings a sense of calm determination to each restructuring engagement. Ian’s experience inv...

Send us Fan Mail Jeff Faust, CVA, is the Principal of Valuation Services at ASL. He has over 25 years of experience in the valuation of privately held companies for various purposes including stock option grants (IRC § 409A), Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), estate/gift, fundraising, mergers/acquisitions, and more. He has provided valuation expertise to owners/shareholders, trustees, manage...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Jiaping (Charlene) Liu is an intellectual property lawyer with an extensive knowledge of patents and a focus on patent prosecution and assertion matters. Charlene performs client counseling, portfolio development and management in various technological fields, and in particular focusing on AI and deep learning, medical devices, semiconductors, integrated circuits, financial se...

Send us Fan Mail Infortal Worldwide is a leading global security and risk management company that helps clients across all industries to mitigate their business risks, and protect employees and assets globally. As the Vice President of Global Compliance & Investigations at Infortal Worldwide, Chris Mason leads the International Investigations Team and works with clients to coordinate due dilig...

Send us Fan Mail Michael specializes in assessing strategic options, stabilizing and turning around underperforming businesses and driving exits, by improving operations and margins, refocusing strategy, negotiating debt structuring/renegotiations, increasing cash flow and managing expenditures with focused leadership and control, helping public and private companies with domestic and internationa...

Send us Fan Mail This week we talk with Randy Lieberman about R&D tax credits. Even startups that pay no income tax can reduce their payroll taxes by claiming this credit. In that way it is a sort of hidden treasure. Randy is at: Randall S. Lieberman  email: rslieb@earnd.co mobile: 214.280.9227 site: https://earnd.co

Send us Fan Mail Jared Hanley, Principal jared@breretonhanley.com Jared Hanley is a Principal with Brereton, Hanley and Company. He heads Brereton’s industry research effort. Mr. Hanley has 15 plus years of investment banking and consulting experience with a broad base of capital raising and mergers and acquisition experience. Prior to joining Brereton, Mr. Hanley was an analyst with Lehman Brothe...

Send us Fan Mail Soyeun Choi esq and Roger Royse discuss the inbound flip transaction for companies moving into the United States from another country

Send us Fan Mail Our guest this week is Patri Freidman of Pronomos Capital. Patri is well known for the Seasteading Institute which established autonomous ocean communities to enable experimentation. Pronomous is using the lessons of Silicon Valley to create a new model for urban development where the city is the product, working with countries to create new communities that seek - through good go...

Send us Fan Mail Ryne Miller is the Founder and Managing Partner of Miller Strategic Partners LLP and former general counsel of FTX US. Based in New York City, Ryne has prior experience as a senior U.S. financial markets regulator, a seasoned trading and markets regulatory counsel to major global financial institutions, and a general counsel for a U.S. financial services and digital assets busines...

Send us Fan Mail This week's episode explores the issue of personal liability for the owners (and others) of corporations and LLCs and how you can avoid going down with the ship if your startup fails.  Tracy Duplantier is a practice area specialist with Lexis Nexis and has a lot to say about the court doctrine of ignoring corporate legal structures in imposing liability aka piercing the corpo...

Send us Fan Mail Andrew Pannell is a partner in the Investment Management Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s London office. His practice focuses on advising venture capital, private equity and corporate clients on venture and growth capital transactions

Send us Fan Mail Kevin Crisp is a partner in the Litigation Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s Orange County office. Kevin’s practice covers a range of commercial litigation matters, including corporate fiduciary duty, securities, mergers and acquisitions, and bankruptcy matters, as well as all manner of business torts and contract disputes. A banker before he was a lawyer, Kevin thrives in matters...

Send us Fan Mail Eric Goldman is a Professor at Santa Clara University School of Law and Associate Dean for Research, Co-Director of the High Tech Law Institute and Supervisor of the Privacy Law Certificate. Professor Goldman focuses on Internet Law, Intellectual Property Law, and Advertising & Marketing Law.

Send us Fan Mail Why should a startup founder care about estate planning and why should they start early? Attorney John Martin discusses the importance of early estate planning and tehe tools available to avoid probate costs and minimize transfer taxes.  John C. Martin, Esq. is certified as a Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law by the State Bar of California’s Board of Legal Speci...

Send us Fan Mail Tamara Devitt, Partner, Haynes Boone LLP, counsels and represents employers in all aspects of labor and employment law. Clients turn to Tamara for defense against claims of discrimination, unlawful harassment, wrongful termination, unfair business practices, and wage and hour claims, including class actions and complex litigation. She advocates for clients in jury and bench trials...

Send us Fan Mail Steven Malm is counsel in the Labor and Employment Practice Group in the San Francisco office of Haynes and Boone, LLP, where he leads the Immigration Practice Group. Steven has vast experience representing small, mid-size, and Fortune 500 employers in a wide array of immigration and compliance matters. Steven’s practice of employment-based immigration law includes assisting emplo...

Send us Fan Mail Margaret Bacheler is the  Director of Educational Initiatives of the Angel Capital Association (ACA). The ACA is a professional society of accredited angel investors who make up the world's most prolific early-stage investment class.  The association is the largest professional development organization for angel investors in the world deploying more than $650 million in early...

Send us Fan Mail This week I sit down with Bob Houston to talk about tax issues that arise in a startup setting. Robert Houston is Of Counsel at BMP LLP in San Jose and his practice includes Merger & Acquisition transaction services and tax structuring for multinational multi-entity organizations, including extensive experience with public and closely held corporations. Additionally, Bob’s are...

Send us Fan Mail Andrew Romans is a successful, consistently top quartile performing VC, VC-backed entrepreneur, former tech VC and M&A investment banker, cofounder of an angel group, General Partner of 7BC Venture Capital and previously the founder and General Partner of Rubicon Venture Capital. He is a university professor and 3x published author on VC and technology. Romans also advises lar...

Send us Fan Mail Philip Albert is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group of the San Francisco office of Haynes and Boone, LLP. His practice focuses on patent prosecution, including interfacing with patent practitioners in other countries, setting up internal patent review processes so that limited resources are allocated to the most important inventions, evaluating patents of others...

Send us Fan Mail Thomas E. Moore III has practiced law in Palo Alto continuously since 1984, representing individuals and start-up to mid-size technology companies in intellectual property and commercial litigation matters.  His approach is multi-disciplinary and is focused at gaining results in as efficient a manner as possible. Thomas has handled matters in all four of areas of intellectual prop...