The 88 most common legal issues for startups

Company Establishment:

What are the advantages and disadvantages of setting up a company in the

of the city and District government? Zhihu.com/question ... Does the Executive Director and legal representative of a limited liability company have to be the same person? What is the difference between the Executive director and the Chairman? Does the same natural person only act as a legal representative of a company? Zhihu.com/question ... Can the identity of the same person 100% shareholding be in a number of companies? Zhihu.com/question ... What is the difference between Corporation and incorporated in American corporate entities? Zhihu.com/question ... What is the difference between LLC, LLP and Corporation in the American corporate structure? Zhihu.com/question ... Which seals does the company usually use? What are their roles and legal effects? Zhihu.com/question ... What kind of license is required to start an E-commerce website? Zhihu.com/question ... Limited liability company to establish a number of investors, one of the shareholders and other shareholders in disagreement, hoping to withdraw and retain shares, the remaining shareholders should deal with? Zhihu.com/question ...

Financing, ownership structure:

How many friends are partnering to start a business, how to allocate equity? Zhihu.com/question ... How many investors in a start-up company are appropriate? Zhihu.com/question ... Angel Investment, VC, PE Intervention Enterprise node is what? What's the difference? Zhihu.com/question ... How much equity does an angel investor usually take on a start-up company? Zhihu.com/question ... What is the right ratio for angel investors? How big is the negotiating space for entrepreneurs? How do entrepreneurs strive for greater benefits for themselves? Zhihu.com/question ... What should the start-up companies pay attention to in the first round of financing? Zhihu.com/question ... How is the amount of a round of financing generally determined? How much do Chinese ordinary internet startups usually get in a round? Zhihu.com/question ... How does a start-up company achieve more than $20 million in the B round? Zhihu.com/question ... What is the valuation of a company? Who's going to estimate? Zhihu.com/question ... Enterprises and VC is to sign the agreement is good or not to sign, why? Zhihu.com/question ... What are the issues that VC does due diligence (DD) generally include? Zhihu.com/question ... What do entrepreneurs need to be aware of when signing term sheet? Zhihu.com/question ... Term Sheet have seen in accordance with the laws of Cayman, some write in accordance with the BVI law, also saw the United States, California or Delaware State, these choices are based on what? Zhihu.com/question ... After signing Term Sheet, can the shares be redistributed? Zhihu.com/question ... What is the VIE structure? What problems should be paid attention to during the establishment process? Zhihu.com/question ... What is the role of Second harsh in entrepreneurship and innovation in the American science and technology industry? Zhihu.com/question ... VC invested in a company, 3, 5 years later, the company does not go public and sell, but also earn a little money, the fund has a survival period is also coming, then VC General will do? Zhihu.com/question ... Do companies need to finance, whether they issue new shares or old shares, and what are the differences? Zhihu.com/question ... What impact does the company's founder's bad behavior on Weibo have on the company's financing plans? Zhihu.com/question ... What is the difference between signing an agreement with an angel investor and signing an agreement with a venture capital agency? Zhihu.com/question ... EntrepreneurshipWhat should the company pay attention to when making the first round of financing? Zhihu.com/question ...

Option/Equity Incentive:

What is the difference between a

original stock and an option? What is the difference between the holder and the owner? Do entrepreneurs usually get options or raw stocks? Zhihu.com/question ... If a start-up company offers equity incentives, what are the most basic procedures? Zhihu.com/question ... How do startups allocate options most effectively? Zhihu.com/question ... How does an option work in a start-up company? Zhihu.com/question ... Assign equity/options to the founding team, and how to operate within the framework of the mainland's limited liability company (Implementation)? Zhihu.com/question ... Start-up companies are generally not joint-stock companies, that should be how to pledge options? Is it a percentage (say 3% of the registered capital)? Zhihu.com/question ... How do startups set up options pools (option pool)? How do I operate? Zhihu.com/question ... If a company is acquired, can the employee's options be exercised at the same time? Zhihu.com/question ... When a domestic company ventures, those who have already cashed in the options leave, how should the company recycle the stock in his hand? Zhihu.com/question ... My company registered principal 300,000, 20 million to acquire 51% equity, I actually can get how much money? Zhihu.com/question ...

Company Listing:

What is the difference between overseas listing and domestic listing, and whether there are pros and cons? Zhihu.com/question ... Why the domestic Internet enterprises are not listed in the mainland Shanghai? Zhihu.com/question ... What factors determine whether a company should apply for an IPO? Zhihu.com/question ... Why is it possible to apply for IPO in the United States after annual net loss? Zhihu.com/question ... What is the process of "roadshow" before the IPO? Zhihu.com/question ... How do you think Chinese companies listed in the US are considering delisting? Zhihu.com/question ...

Human resources related Legal issues:

Does

need to sign labor contracts with members of the entrepreneurial team? Zhihu.com/question ... Under what circumstances can the employer unilaterally terminate the labor contract, whether it should pay the employees ' economic compensation, and how to calculate the compensation amount? Zhihu.com/question ... What are the differences between labor contract and labor contract? Zhihu.com/question ... What is "personnel chapter"? What is the difference between it and the general company seal? Zhihu.com/question ...

Trade secrets:

What are the

measures to prevent core employees from job-hopping to take away trade secrets? Zhihu.com/question ... What is the difference between a non-compete agreement and a confidentiality agreement? Zhihu.com/question ... Can you refuse to sign a business agreement when you leave? Zhihu.com/question ... How do startups protect business secrets? Zhihu.com/question ... How does the company avoid disclosing trade secrets in foreign cooperation exchanges? Zhihu.com/question ...

Trademark registration, patent application and intellectual property:

In China, the registration of personal trademarks should go how the procedure, the cost of about how much? Zhihu.com/question ... At present, China's trademark registration in accordance with the "classification of similar goods and services" in accordance with a class of one-mark registration, the site should be how to accurately locate the site involved in the category, to avoid the whole class of registration costs too much? Zhihu.com/question ... If the registered trademark XXX, then I have the domain name xxx.com and so on domain name to have the ownership? Why? Zhihu.com/question ... The trademark is registered by the company of the same business scope, what should I do? Zhihu.com/question ... How to choose the trademark category most exclusive? Zhihu.com/question ... In the trademark infringement dispute, how to judge whether the accused tort mark and the claim Power's registered trademark constitute the approximate? Zhihu.com/question ... How to solve the problem of the registered trademark of the representative by lawsuit? Zhihu.com/question ... What needs to be noted when a start-up company chooses a trademark agency company? Zhihu.com/question ... Foreign trademarks have not yet entered China, after being translated by the media is the use of trademark? Zhihu.com/question ... Is patent important for domestic internet or software startups? Zhihu.com/question ... How to judge if a patent should be applied? Zhihu.com/question ... What technologies and designs for Internet products can be patented? Zhihu.com/question ... How can the UI design in the United States apply to a patent for appearance or invention? Zhihu.com/question ... How to identify the other party infringement patent? Zhihu.com/question ... What are the different ways of patent licensing? Zhihu.com/question ... How to distinguish between the design of plagiarism and reference/inspiration? Zhihu.com/question ... How to identify the intellectual property rights of logos? How to identify plagiarism? Zhihu.com/question ... Is it a tort to make a digital version of a book available for free on the Internet? Why? Zhihu.com/question ... Does buying and selling second-hand books infringe on the author's intellectual property? Zhihu.com/question ... The author of the book has died, want to translate one of his books, who should be called to authorize? Zhihu.com/question ... How do Facebook, watercress, microblogging, and dot-dot websites circumvent the copyright risks of a picture? Zhihu.com/question ... I made a product and sold it for a long time, another company after I applied for a cosmetic patent to sue me, in which case what should I do? Zhihu.com/question... How to apply for patent for ERP products? Zhihu.com/question ... Does the designer's manuscript belong to the company or the individual? Zhihu.com/question ...

Tax：

is it against the U.S. tax law for American companies to direct bank wire transfers to overseas consultants? Zhihu.com/question ...

Contract dispute:

What are the criteria for determining the legal and illegal boundaries of the

company's contractual behavior? Zhihu.com/question ... The national group buys the website to revoke the local branch office, and the local merchant sign contract how to decide? Zhihu.com/question ... What procedures are required by law to prove that a contract is forged? Zhihu.com/question ...

Acquisition：

What is the difference between

Asset acquisition and equity acquisition? Zhihu.com/question ... What are the ways in which a hostile takeover should be made? Zhihu.com/question ... What are the reasons for a company being acquired? Zhihu.com/question ...

Other：

At what stage does

company need to set up legal department? Zhihu.com/question ... What are the main contents of the company's legal affairs department? Zhihu.com/question ... Do startups want lawyers as legal advisers? When do you need it? Zhihu.com/question ... How does a start-up company handle the legal part at home? Zhihu.com/question ...

What lawyers and legal persons can be sought for help in the face of problems?

Juberchun Benjamin    Innovation Workshop lawyer  zhihu.com/people ... Warbler   Innovation Workshop lawyer, good at investment and financing, securities, mergers and acquisitions business  zhihu.com/people ... Shao Dust   Focus on the legal aspects of business investment and operation  zhihu.com/people ... Guo Lei   Lawyer, Doctor of law,  zhihu.com/people ... Yunting lawyer   Intellectual property lawyer  zhihu.com/people ... Lee   Intellectual Property & Financial investment lawyer  zhihu.com/people ... Sara Shen   Works in an American firm specialising in mergers and acquisitions,  zhihu.com/people...raymond Wang  zhihu.com/people ... Liu Wuliang    The original Perfect World (perfect space-time) legal manager, current Beijing Banre law firm partner lawyer  zhihu.com/people ... Ye Yong   Fortune lawyer  zhihu.com/people ... Liu   Corporate legal Advisor  zhihu.com/people ... Ding   lawyer, financial law zhihu.com/people ... Wang Bohan  zhihu.com/people ... Shing  zhihu.com/people ... Xu Chuol  zhihu.com/people ... Hu String  zhihu.com/people ... Shechunsong   Guangzhou trademark lawyer  zhihu.com/people ... Xu Changlong   Chinese lawyer working in American law firm specializes in Chinese company law related business  zhihu.com/people ... Julian   Works in a US law firm, specializes in trade law  zhihu.com/people...oldcheetah   A prosecutor  zhihu.com/people ... Dingxiaofeng   Practicing lawyer  zhihu.com/people, Shanghai Shen Hua law firm ... Sipen  zhihu.com/people ... Levin  zhihu.com/people ... Cheng   Lawyer, mainly engaged in the company's securities business  zhihu.com/people...someonElxh Intellectual property Lawyer  zhihu.com/people ... Tri Zion   Intellectual Property practice lawyer  zhihu.com/people ... Zhang Yikun   Jiangsu Ho Xuquang law firm  zhihu.com/people ... Li Zhipeng   Lawyer, working in an investment company engaged in capital market investment business, focus on bonds and other related business  zhihu.com/people ... Song Jiandong   Corporate legal Advisor  zhihu.com/people ...

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Source: http://blog.zhihu.com/2011/09/startup003-2/