Resources

There is an array of printed and web-based resources for you to consider when starting a technology company. We will recommend just a few. 

Corporate Structure

Guide to Starting a Corporation (Fenwick & West LLP)
Guide_to_Starting_Corp.pdf

Selection of a Business Entity (Bill Evers, Esq.)
Word document

Starting a New Mexico Business
www.nmsbdc.org/
BusinessStartingOutGuide.pdf

Corporations and Limited Liability Companies:
California

www.ss.ca.gov/business/business.htm
Idaho

www.mycorporation.com/secretary-state/idaho/

New Mexico

www.nmprc.state.nm.us/cb.htm
  

Early Stage Structure

How To of Early Stage Structuring (Bill Evers, Esq.)
Word document

Intellectual Property

US Patent/Trademark Office
www.uspto.gov

Patent Searches
www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html

www.google.com/patents


US Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
www.copyright.com

US Copyright Office
www.copyright.gov

US Trademark Office
www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm

Trademark Searches
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=tess&state=4006:8r59u1.1.1
        

European Patent Office
www.european-patent-office.org/index.en.php

World Wide Patent Searches at Delphion
www.delphion.com

World Intellectual Property Organization
www.wipo.int

Uniform Trade Secrets Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Trade_Secrets_Act

Securities Offerings

Federal Regulations D Offerings
www.sec.gov/answers/regd.htm

New Mexico Securities  Offerings
www.rld.state.nm.us/securities/

Idaho Securities Offerings
http://finance.idaho.gov/

Term Sheets

Anatomy of a Term Sheet by Andrew Sherman
www.netpreneur.org/funding/anatomy_term_sheet.pdf

Defining and Understanding Term Sheets
www.woodsidefund.com/ent/articles/Defining_Terms.html

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