Social Matchbox Date Coming Up Shortly
The Social Matchbox organizing team is finalizing plans for the upcoming Social Matchbox Spring event and will make an announcement on Monday. We will be sending out special registration discount codes to alumni, email list subscribers, and @socialmatchbox followers on Twitter. If you have not signed up for our email list or on twitter already [...]
If I Launched A Startup
This article was written by Ryan Roberts, The Startup Lawyer, and re-published on SocialMatchbox.com with his permission.
Here’s what I’d do in the beginning:
Incorporation
(1) Entity Choice: Corporation or Corporation
(2) State of Incorporation: Delaware
(3) Authorized Shares in Charter: 10,000,000 Shares
(4) Type of Shares: Common Stock
(5) Par Value of Common: $0.0001
(6) Initial Founders Issuance: 8,000,000 Shares
(7) Founders Equity Split: Depends on the Team, But Quickly and After [...]
My iPad Is Better Than Your iPad
We just heard from Social Matchbox alumni Jon Mervis. He wants to help you one up your friends with iPads by hooking you up with an iPad hand set in 11.43 carats of diamonds. Price: $19,999. Get yours today.
There is also the $2.5 Million Dollar Diamond iPhone in case you would like a companion.
Message Systems Closes Funding Round
Message Systems, a Columbia, MD, based provider of message management solutions and services for email service providers, ISP’s, social networks and large enterprises that need to manage large volumes of email closed what they are calling a “significant” investment round involving Philadelphia, PA based NewSpring Ventures. Message Systems was launched in 1997.
BroadSoft Files IPO Papers with SEC
BroadSoft, Inc., a Gaithersburg, MD based software company has just announced their filing for an IPO.
BroadSoft was founded in 1998 and is a provider of software that enables fixed-line, mobile and cable service providers to deliver voice and multimedia services over their IP-based networks. The Company’s software, BroadWorks, enables service providers to provide [...]
Social Matchbox Alumni LivingSocial Raises $25 Million in Series B Round
LivingSocial, the social commerce leader behind LivingSocial Deals and top Facebook applications Visual Bookshelf and Pick Your Five, today announced that it has completed a $25 million Series B round of venture funding led by U.S. Venture Partners, with Grotech Ventures and Steve Case’s Revolution, LLC participating. LivingSocial’s group buying service has grown rapidly [...]
A Lesson in Startup Finance from The Government Type
Far more often than not I hear DC startup people here takling about how they are so much different than government contractors. The conversation usually follows the predictable skill set lines or the mindset lines. Today, as I was sitting in a coffee shop frequented by both DC startup and government people [...]
