Startup Corner

Congress Makes Permanent the 100% Exclusion on Sales of Qualified Small Business Stock: Founders and Early Investors May Sell Stock Tax-Free, Importance of Meeting QSBS Requirements Heightened As [...]

Shaking Hands with Citizens United Most people I know disagree idea with the idea that corporations should be accorded the same protections as living breathing people under the U.S. constitution. [...]

Treating Convertible Notes as Equity for Tax Purposes – The Best of Both Worlds? Some people continue to debate whether convertible notes are the appropriate method for capitalizing early-stage [...]

I don’t know any of these folks, but this blog highlights one of the structures for incentivizing impact performance that will be analyzed and for which we’ll have sample language as part of the [...]

Should I form a US entity to attract US investors? I am often asked this question by entrepreneurs who are conducting business outside of the US but believe that they may be able to raise money [...]

As the New York Times reported, the IRS has announced that it will treat Bitcoin as property, rather than as a foreign currency, for US federal income tax purposes. The IRS largely based this [...]

In recent years, there has been a lot of discussion in the socially responsible world about “hybrid” structures.  “Hybrid structures” are organizations made up of a for-profit entity and a [...]

Our client Dropifi has joined the 500 Startup Accelerator Program as the first African company ever selected. Dropifi is a smart customer service widget that allows companies to analyze, [...]

When we think of multinational companies we tend to think of large corporate conglomerates. We know, of course, that multinational companies also include small start up businesses that are [...]

As the year ends and we continue to wait for SEC regulations concerning crowdfunding to be finalized, some crowdfunding sites, like crowdfunder, are applying fundraising techniques from creative [...]