Four deadly legal mistakes startups make

September 26, 2011 12:14 PM Scott Edward Walker
Scott Edward Walker

Guest Post

A reader asks: My co-founders and I are working on a cool new site, and we’ll be ready to launch in a few weeks. I’ve been reading a lot on the web about incorporation and other legal stuff. We have …

Stock vesting: Why is four the magic number?

June 2, 2010 6:00 AM Jeff Bussgang

Guest Post

(Editor’s note: Jeff Bussgang is a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners. This column originally appeared on his blog Seeing Both Sides.)

There’s a historical anomaly in start-up compensation that I’m struggling with.  Although I know this risks being an …