18 - Legal and Accounting Basics for Startups

There's a lot that goes behind the scenes in running a startup. Getting the legal, finance (equity allocation, vesting), accounting, and other overhead right will save you a lot of pain in the long run. Kirsty Nathoo, CFO at Y Combinator, and Carolynn Levy, General Counsel at Y Combinator, cover these very important topics in this lecture. From YC Startup Class - How to Start a Startup - Stanford CS183B Lecture Transcript: genius.com/Kirsty-nathoo-lecture-18-mechanics-legal-finance-hr-etc-annotated See the slides and readings at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec18/ Discuss this lecture: startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64047 Click to view: show page on Awesound

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18 - Legal and Accounting Basics for Startups is an episode from How to Start a Startup by Y Combinator.

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This episode was published on Jan 6, 2016.

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