European Data Protection Issues No Business Can Ignore
Guest Post By Felicity Fisher – Associate – Osborne Clarke Doing business in Europe invariably means collecting data relating to EU citizens. This means your business will need to comply with the...
View ArticleHow Do I Value My Company To Grant Stock Options?
Guest Post By Marek Omilian, CFA Startup companies frequently have to confront this issue. After the founder stock issuances, the company will want to be able to grant stock options to new hires....
View ArticleBig News From The DFI re Washington Crowdfunding
For a while there has been a concern about Washington’s equity crowdfunding law because of limitations inherent in the law. Washington’s equity crowdfunding bill was built on Section 3(a)(11) of the...
View ArticleSecret Government Patent Program Buckles Under Public Pressure
By Adam L.K. Philipp – Founder – Aeon Law The US Patent Office has decided to cancel a controversial program that flagged certain types of patent applications for slow-track treatment. As we...
View ArticleWild by Cheryl Strayed: A Great Read
I’ve just started reading Wild, by Cheryl Strayed, and I highly recommend it. If you don’t know the story, the author decides to hike the entire Pacific Crest Trail. It is a great story, not only about...
View ArticleSEC Guidance on Using Twitter in a Regulation A+ Offering
Regulation A+ is of great interest right now to a lot of people because of the excitement around equity crowdfunding in general. Regulation A+ Is Not for the Faint of Heart An example: Bloomberg ran a...
View ArticleCompensatory Equity: Securities Law Considerations
Thank you to Lauren Hakala at Practical Law and to my colleauge Susan Schalla for writing the attached article with me. Start-up Equity Awards Securities Law Considerations In this article we go into...
View ArticleState Crowdfunding: Comparing Oregon and Washington Law
State Crowdfunding State crowdfunding is growing in importance. This is driven in part by the inability of the SEC to finalize the Title III crowdfunding regulations (which the JOBS Act required to be...
View ArticleStock Options: NQOs vs. ISOs
I have written a bunch of different posts over time on the different types of equity incentives a startup or emerging company can offer its workers. Below is a list of some of them. What Type of Equity...
View ArticleOpen House: September 30, 2015
Open House! The CBS Startup Team (pictured above) is hosting an Open House on September 30, 2015, from 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m, at our offices in the Columbia Tower. The address is 701 Fifth Avenue,...
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