Boards-Early-Stage

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Corporate Governance Starts with Seed Capital

Los Altos Hills, CA

Tues 15 Aug: Three companies present at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati, 650 Page Mill Rd, Palo Alto, CA: STEP Communications        Noise Elimination and Voice Separation, Clear Voice Input. Probe Array        IC Wafer Testing for fine pitch IC's Alternative Energy Financing Group        BreezeGen Energy, Pacific Solar Tech, Sun Link. Mon 21 Aug: Above companies present again at Spinnaker, Sausalito. Sat 9 Sept: Boards-Early-Stage; Basic Training for Pre Public firms. Location TBD.

Mission Statements

1. Maximize communications on Corporate Governance for Early-Stage-Firms. 2. Dialogs on Board Committees for Early Stage firms.  A. Executive Search and succession planning (most important).  B. Finance; few Entrepreneurs are good at raising capital solo.  C. IP: patents, trade secrets, copyrights, trade marks.  D. Compensation: salaries, restricted stock purchases with vesting, options.  E. Corporate Development: M&A's and Joint Ventures (getting liquid).  F. Audit (least important).   3. Entrepreneur Preparations (Prep) for Seed Capital.