The decisions you make in the beginning, such as choosing an ownership structure, will impact your business throughout its life cycle. Getting the right start is critical.
Main Content
Helping Innovative Ventures Emerge
Free Business & Legal Resources for Entrepreneurs and Startups.
Learn More
Knowledge for All Startup Stages
Tools and information to help you take your company from idea to reality and beyond. Whether you’re hiring your first employee, or expanding around the globe, you’ll find resources to guide you and position your business for success.
Featured Resources
LAN Party Lawyers: All-In on Loot Boxes
In this inaugural episode of LAN Party Lawyers, Carlton Fields attorneys Steve Blickensderfer and Nick Brown discuss the increasingly popular phenomenon of including loot boxes in digital games. They also examine the growing concerns about loot boxes by regulators around the world and debate whether …
U.S. Immigration Policy and Procedural Changes Impacting Foreign Students (Webinar)
This presentation is a three-part series on the procedural and policy changes issued by the various U.S. agencies governing legal immigration, and the impact of these changes on foreign students in the U.S. with student, scholar or trainee visas such as F, M or J, as well as their spouses and …
Custom Software Development: Practical Strategies to Get What You Pay For (Webinar)
A company’s custom software is an increasingly important part of growing profitability, shrinking expenses, and reaching new markets. It is critical to corporate success or failure. Software deals and licensing models are evolving as quickly as the technology, becoming more complicated and costly. …
Featured Documents
Employee Invention Assignment Agreement (California)
The Employee Invention Assignment Agreement is an agreement between the company and employee that requires the employee to disclose any inventions to the company, to legally transfer ownership in such inventions to the Company, and to assist the company in obtaining protection on any such …
Stock Ledger
The Stock Ledger is the official record of the stock of the corporation. It lists the names and addresses of the stockholders, the number of shares owned, the certificate numbers for their stock certificates, and the date the stock was issued. Copies of both sides of each stock certificate issued …
Convertible Note Purchase Agreement with Form of Note
This sample Form of Convertible Promissory Note Purchase Agreement is for use in an early round seed financing from an individual angel investor or a small group of individual angel investors resident in the United States which is negotiated directly by both the Company and the investing party. …