{"id":179,"date":"2011-11-17T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2018-11-11T15:42:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T23:42:10","slug":"legal-tips-for-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/legal-tips-for-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Tips for Startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following is a guest post from fnBlog Contributor Matthew Faustman, founder of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.upcounsel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UpCounsel<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>UpCounsel&#8217;s blog posts aggregate the very best legal advice we can find from top attorneys about legal issues that startups and small businesses face. Here is our list of UpCounsel&#8217;s blogs that apply just for the startup community (assembled in a somewhat chronological order). We are constantly adding to this based on the requests from our readers &#8211; so let us know what we need to write about.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. \u00a0<a title=\"Free Legal Documents\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.upcounsel.com\/free-legal-startup-documents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Legal Documents and Guides<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2. \u00a0<a title=\"When To Form The Company\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.upcounsel.com\/right-time-form-company\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">When To Form Your Company<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3. \u00a0<a title=\"Choosing A Legal Entity For Your Startup\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.upcounsel.com\/choosing-legal-entity-startup-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What and Where? Choosing Your Company&#8217;s Legal Entity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>4. \u00a0<a title=\"Divorce is Ugly \u2013 Founder Equity and Vesting\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.upcounsel.com\/founder-equity-vesting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Founder Agreements: Restricted Stock And Distributing Equity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>5. \u00a0<a title=\"Hacker\u2019s Guide To Forming A Delaware Corporation\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.upcounsel.com\/hackers-guide-to-forming-a-delaware-corporation\/\">Guide To Forming A\u00a0Delaware Corporation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>6. \u00a0<a title=\"Creating and Understanding Your Equity Incentive Plan\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.upcounsel.com\/startup-equity-incentive-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creating and Understanding Your Employee Equity Plan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>7. \u00a0<a title=\"Website Best Practices \u2013 Terms of Use and Privacy Policy\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.upcounsel.com\/website-best-practices-terms-of-use-and-privacy-policy\/\">Website Best Practices: Terms of Use and Privacy Policies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>8. \u00a0<a title=\"Independent Contractor Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.upcounsel.com\/independent-contractors-consulting-agreement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Independent Contractor Guide for Entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>9. \u00a0<a title=\"Founders Leaving The Startup\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.upcounsel.com\/founders-leaving-the-startup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dealing with a Departing Founder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a guest post from fnBlog Contributor Matthew Faustman, founder of\u00a0UpCounsel. &nbsp; UpCounsel&#8217;s blog posts aggregate the very best legal advice we can find from top attorneys about &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/legal-tips-for-startups\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":16231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[98,90],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-startup-advice","tag-startups","tag-tech-founders"],"acf":[],"featured_image_data":{"src":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Legal-Tips-for-Startups.jpg","alt":"Legal Tips for Startups","caption":"Legal Tips for Startups\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}