Law 101 For Startups – with Bill Schreiber of Fenwick & West
I’ve gotten a lot of requests for a program about the legal issues that entrepreneurs like you need to be prepared for, so I invited Bill Schreiber of Fenwick & West to Mixergy. Fenwick is one of the most trusted firms among tech startups. They incorporated Apple, when it was just a startup, and their current client list includes young companies like Twitter and Facebook, as well as bigger companies like Cisco and Symantec.
The topics we covered in this program include: How to keep from losing your intellectual property. How to structure your pre-VC funding. And how to pick the right legal entity for your business.
Bill Schreiber is a partner in Fenwick & West’s corporate group. His emphasis is on Start-up Counseling, Venture Capital Financing, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures. Fenwick & West is a national law firm that provides comprehensive legal services to technology and life sciences clients of national and international prominence. They have approximately 300 attorneys, with offices in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Seattle and Boise.
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