10,000 Startups: Legal Strategies for Startup Success

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Tamara Devitt, Partner, Haynes Boone LLP, counsels and represents employers in all aspects of labor and employment law. Clients turn to Tamara for defense against claims of discrimination, unlawful harassment, wrongful termination, unfair business practices, and wage and hour claims, including class actions and complex litigation. She advocates for clients in jury and bench trials, arbitration, and pre-litigation negotiations, and in administrative tribunals, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, Department of Labor, and California Labor Commissioner. https://www.haynesboone.com/people/devitt-tamara

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Steven Malm is counsel in the Labor and Employment Practice Group in the San Francisco office of Haynes and Boone, LLP, where he leads the Immigration Practice Group. Steven has vast experience representing small, mid-size, and Fortune 500 employers in a wide array of immigration and compliance matters. Steven’s practice of employment-based immigration law includes assisting employers in monitoring and maintaining the immigration status of their foreign workforces. He assists employers in sponsoring foreign workers for such nonimmigrant visas as H-1B specialty worker, L-1 intracompany transferee, and O-1 extraordinary ability visas, as well as other nonimmigrant classifications, and sponsorship for permanent residence through analogous green card categories and the PERM labor certification test of the U.S. labor market.

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Margaret Bacheler is the  Director of Educational Initiatives of the Angel Capital Association (ACA). The ACA is a professional society of accredited angel investors who make up the world's most prolific early-stage investment class.  The association is the largest professional development organization for angel investors in the world deploying more than $650 million in early stage capital each year.  
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This week I sit down with Bob Houston to talk about tax issues that arise in a startup setting. Robert Houston is Of Counsel at BMP LLP in San Jose and his practice includes Merger & Acquisition transaction services and tax structuring for multinational multi-entity organizations, including extensive experience with public and closely held corporations. Additionally, Bob’s areas of expertise include Subchapter C, Subchapter S, State and local, tax accounting methods and periods. Bob has been actively involved in developing and delivering tax training programs nationwide for the Big Four accounting firms. Previous experience also includes being an adjunct professor of Accounting and Taxation at Golden Gate University, along with being a contract trainer for a large international bank. Bob holds an active CPA license in California.

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Andrew Romans is a successful, consistently top quartile performing VC, VC-backed entrepreneur, former tech VC and M&A investment banker, cofounder of an angel group, General Partner of 7BC Venture Capital and previously the founder and General Partner of Rubicon Venture Capital. He is a university professor and 3x published author on VC and technology. Romans also advises large corporations and governments on policies about Venture Capital and Corporate Venture Capital (CVC). Romans raised over $48m for tech startups he founded by the age of 28. Romans founded numerous startups and raised hundreds of millions of dollars in VC funding and led startups to exits. He is also a frequent guest speaker on MSNBC, CNBC, and ABC. Fluent in English, French and German he holds an MBA in finance from Georgetown University, which he completed on scholarship.

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Philip Albert is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group of the San Francisco office of Haynes and Boone, LLP. His practice focuses on patent prosecution, including interfacing with patent practitioners in other countries, setting up internal patent review processes so that limited resources are allocated to the most important inventions, evaluating patents of others for purchase, licensing, or design-around, and addressing intellectual property components of a larger transaction, acquisition or due diligence project. He has significant experience representing clients developing many critical technologies, including streaming, network protocols, network security, artificial intelligence, blockchain, animation, and the Internet of Things.

An engineer by training, Phil previously worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and founded a company that produced semi-custom software and turnkey computer systems for accounting tasks and bank operations.

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Thomas E. Moore III has practiced law in Palo Alto continuously since 1984, representing individuals and start-up to mid-size technology companies in intellectual property and commercial litigation matters.  His approach is multi-disciplinary and is focused at gaining results in as efficient a manner as possible.

Thomas has handled matters in all four of areas of intellectual property, namely, patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets.  That experience includes disputes arising out of complex license agreements.  His work in commercial litigation includes breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duties, false advertising and all aspects of the law of fraud.

 We talk about fiduciary duties - what are they? Who has them? What do they mean? Founder disputes and the ten to 1 rule.