rubicon.law

Legal counsel to innovative companies.

[Ryan Howell @Finsrud]

Series A on the horizon? 🎯 Don’t get caught off guard. Here’s a Due Diligence Checklist founders can use to prepare: https://t.co/XevfViiJZY

[rubicon.law @rubiconlaw]

NEWS: The gov't. just released the Paycheck Protection Program loan application. Borrow up to 2.5x your monthly payroll/rent expense. You can apply beginning Friday, April 3rd. https://t.co/QKRCYFysbZ

[rubicon.law @rubiconlaw]

💪 Actionable Insights for Your Business in Light of COVID-19 - https://t.co/OXInloWco5

[rubicon.law @rubiconlaw]

Great summary of how to write investor updates (with examples).

[rubicon.law @rubiconlaw]

Need a great framework to think through or refine your startup idea? Here you go!: https://t.co/1PlUFktN06

[rubicon.law @rubiconlaw]

Over the course of 20+ acquisitions, Atlassian seems to have learned that more detailed term sheets yield much better M&A transactions. https://t.co/beKLdaKUCl

[rubicon.law @rubiconlaw]

Congrats to our client @animocabrands! https://t.co/6ja5fKzI1K

[rubicon.law @rubiconlaw]

We've been working with @cartainc since 2013. Their standard job offer letter is a great step forward in helping employees understand startup equity. Now you can download and reuse their form offer letter (with modifications of course): https://t.co/nYejhUxCZm

[rubicon.law @rubiconlaw]

Be careful in hiring a dev shop to build your startup. Great discussion of the potential risks – and they're real – we've seen them with client after client: https://t.co/HZD1HimcZs

[rubicon.law @rubiconlaw]

Pinterest's 2nd employee explains why becoming an early startup employee is a 'terrible' idea if you want to get rich: https://t.co/hbcqgQovBC

[rubicon.law @rubiconlaw]

We moved from paper to electronic closings in 2009. Hard to believe it's been 10 years! In addition to making life easier for our clients, @DocuSign tells us we've saved a lot of trees. Love that.

[rubicon.law @rubiconlaw]

"Why Startups shouldn’t use YC’s Post-Money SAFE" - Kudos to @ancerj for stating publicly what we and others in the ecosystem have been saying privately: https://t.co/JBdSXbhqqS

[rubicon.law @rubiconlaw]

Challenging long-held assumptions: "Companies started by solo founders survive longer ... generate more revenue ... than those started by teams." https://t.co/IaxcFeJSA3

[rubicon.law @rubiconlaw]

Pebble Watch Founder, Eric Migicovsky, shares his throughts on startup advisors: https://t.co/riby5TyZfZ

[rubicon.law @rubiconlaw]

Truth.

[farbood @farbood]

Advice to entrepreneurs:

Don’t ‘pitch’ investors

That’s being thirsty.

Tell them who you are, how you think, what you’ve done so far, what you’re planning to do how the market looks. Teach them. You should know it better than they do.

[rubicon.law @rubiconlaw]

Early on, to mitigate our risk, we asked the 10 smartest people we knew to give us their brutally honest criticism. We asked each of them for the top two reasons they could envision us failing... https://t.co/eAjQ8F123n

[Fletcher Richman @fletchrichman]

A bunch of new Seed funds raised recently in Colorado! Here's my updated list of Colorado early stage investors. https://t.co/zv6uynNdCS

[rubicon.law @rubiconlaw]

More great news for Denver. Strava is leasing space in the building where Rubicon Law was born.

[BusinessDen @Business_Den]

Fitness tracking app @Strava leases 20K square feet in LoDo https://t.co/y5icVD6hxA

[BusinessDen @Business_Den]

It’s no HQ2, but Amazon has taken a liking to some prime Denver real estate https://t.co/WUuXFYMy0Z

[rubicon.law @rubiconlaw]

Great advice on starting a successful consulting business: https://t.co/DpgQv9OH4n