VentureDocs and Doccelerator™ Programs Highlighted in the Business Section of the Dallas Morning News

Bo Sartain, Sartain PC

The Doccelerator™ Program written and managed by Bo Sartain, has evolved into its own company called VentureDocs.  VentureDocs is a web-enabled legal document drafting system focused on Technology startup companies.

VentureDocs Doccelerator™ programs allow users to proceed through an intuitive point-and-click menu system for putting in unique information and making [...]

Convertible Note and Warrant Term Sheet Doccelerator™

Bo Sartain, Sartain PC

Bo Sartain, Sartain PC

Written By Bo Sartain, founder of Sartain PC and of VentureDocs.com

Automate the drafting process for your angel or institutional investor convertible note and warrant financing term sheet using a point-and-click, intuitive menu system.  Put in the significant terms of your financing such as liquidation preference, anti-dilution provisions, board [...]

Hiring an IP Lawyer – Three Things I Wish You Knew

Darin Klemchuck, Senior Partner at Klemchuck Kubaster LLP

Darin Klemchuck, IP Lawyer at Klemchuck Kubaster LLP

Guest Author, Darin Klemchuk, Senior Partner at Klemchuk Kubasta LLP

I asked Dallas IP legal eagle, Darin Klemchuk, to tell us the Three Things he [...]

Angel Preferred Stock Term Sheet Doccelerator™

Bo Sartain, Sartain PC

Bo Sartain, Sartain PC

Bo Sartain, entrepreneur and founder of Sartain PC and Venture Docs

Automate the drafting process for your angel investor preferred stock seed financing term sheet using a point-and-click, intuitive menu system.  Put in the significant terms of your financing such as liquidation preference, anti-dilution provisions, board seats [...]

Preparing Your Patent Application – Three Things I Wish You Knew

Jon Cameron, Pop! Technology

Jon Cameron, Pop! Technology

When Preparing Your Patent Application

by Jon Cameron, Entrepreneur and Managing Partner of Pop! Technology

Whether you use a patent attorney or you brave this application yourself, you will find yourself very involved in process.  You can make it easier on yourself, co- inventors, and patent counsel if you [...]

Liquidation Preference Calculator

Bo Sartain, Sartain PC

Bo Sartain, Sartain PC

Participating versus non-participating preferred stock.  Cumulative versus non-cumulative dividends.  See how these preferred stock terms that you see in venture capital or angel investor financing transactions will affect how proceeds on a sale of your company will be split between the holders of preferred stock and the holders of [...]

Before You Patent – Three Things I Wish You Knew

Jon Cameron, POP! Technology

Jon Cameron, Pop! Technology

Before You Patent

By Jon Cameron, entrepreneur and Managing Partner of Pop! Technology.

Growing up my father had three, and only three, pearls of wisdom which were oft repeated: there is a time and place for everything [and this is not it], don’t stand in front [...]

Start-up Success Stories Around the Web

If you’re trying to start a business, or thinking of starting a business, there are always those black moments of doubt.  As one 30 something wanna be entrepreneur recently said to me, “there is just so much to do and I don’t know how to do all of it.”

For these moments when we [...]

The Biggest “Ownership” Mistakes Startup Companies Make

Bo Sartain, Sartain PC

Bo Sartain, Sartain PC

1. Not Incorporating

One of the biggest mistakes new businesses with multiple owners make is not forming a corporation or LLC.  The reason is simple—forming the LLC or Corporation forces you to sit down with your business partners and codify ownership of the business and the roles [...]

Do you have to incorporate to form a new business?

If I am starting a business, do I have to incorporate?  Why and what are the pros and cons to the different business entities?  Can’t I continue to do business as a DBA?