12 O’Clock High: Navigating Life’s Challenges: A Journey from Military Service to Mental Health Advocacy with Nick Padlo
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 242: Business Planning in Healthcare & Life Sciences with Jennifer McEwen of Maynard Nexsen
The Authenticity Advantage: How Runbin Dong’s Scale Social AI Helps Small Businesses Shine
Innovation in Compliance: LeadHERship with Linda Fisk
Fox on Podcasting: Rory Paquette on Elevating Podcasters and the Power of Vulnerability
12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership: Empowering Female Entrepreneurs - A Conversation with Linda Fisk
12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership: Emotional Health and High Achievers: A Journey to Balance with Dr. Karthik Ramanan
Innovation in Compliance: Exploring the Fractional COO Model with La Tonya Roberts
How Happiness Drives Business Success: Leadership Lessons from Grace Ueng
Cannabis Law Now Podcast - From Law Firm to Board Room: The Journey of a Cannabis Entrepreneur
SBR Author’s Podcast: Transforming Corporate Careers - Leadership Lessons for the US Military Veteran Entrepreneur
Innovation in Compliance: Visionary Leadership with Jackson Calame
Innovation in Compliance: Nikki Rausch on Harnessing Relationships for Sales and Effective Compliance
The Entrepreneur's Journey with Kass and Mike Lazerow
Creating Impact Through Innovation: Brandon Kashani on Leading Mission-Driven Startups
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From Innovation to Commercialization: Turning Research Into Tangible Outcomes With John Bamforth
Developing an AI Policy for Your Startup
Due Diligence in AI: Thinking like your biggest critic
In a landmark legislative win for entrepreneurs, the “Big Beautiful Bill” was signed into law on July 4, 2025, overhauling how startups, founders, and early investors structure and grow their companies. Among the most...more
Wilson Sonsini is pleased to present the Q2 2025 edition of The Entrepreneurs Report. We’ve compiled a range of data on venture, convertible note, and SAFE financing transactions in which the firm was involved during the...more
What really happens behind the scenes of a $175 million startup deal? In a special live episode of the Founder Shares podcast, recorded at Raleigh-Durham Startup Week, Tim McLoughlin, managing partner of CoFounders Capital,...more
Learn the skills you need to provide pro bono support to climate-friendly causes, communities, and startups! This unique event brings together attorneys from across the world to learn how they can engage in pro bono legal...more
Deep tech companies—whether in space, defense, robotics, AI-driven industrial automation, or advanced materials—face long R&D cycles, high capital requirements, and intense global competition. Yet some founders treat IP as an...more
I’m often asked whether employees should have access to the company’s cap table. The cap table is one of the most sensitive and critical documents in any startup. At its most basic level, it lays out who owns what –...more
The founders and exec team are a critical component of an early-stage company’s business value. In a previous article, we provided detailed guidance on the comparison of U.S. and UK market practices in relation to equity...more
Carlo Trucco shares insight on: How the regulatory landscape is impacting transactions Two tech verticals attracting significant venture investment...more
Congratulations on incorporating your startup! Now that your business is officially on the map, it is time to take the next crucial steps to ensure a solid foundation for growth and success. This checklist provides new...more
Venture-stage investors make their investment in the people of a business as much as they do the idea and the operations. The drive, the know-how, the effort, and the vision of the founders are typically what attract first...more
Over the past decade, France has emerged as a powerhouse in the European tech ecosystem. The surge of French unicorns, supported by the government’s “French tech” initiatives — which include tax credits and the formation of...more
When developing an internal company artificial intelligence policy, there are three main things that a policy should do. One, it should explain to employees what types of tools they can use and what types of accounts they...more
Founders and folks that are really pushing the envelope in this space need to be careful with how they describe their tools when it comes to due diligence. We're working from an environment where most people are just focused...more
We encounter many founders who have based their enterprises in the U.S., but who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents, or who may have other significant cross-border ties such as close family living outside the U.S....more
Down round financings recently reached their highest levels in 15 years, leaving investors, growth-stage companies, and other venture capital market participants searching for guidance and clarity. Jones Day partners Tim...more
Private company clients frequently ask us about granting compensatory stock options to their founders, employees and other service providers, including board members, consultants and advisors. Options and other equity awards...more
Hosts Raquel Smith and Tolulope “Tolu” Adetayo speak with Africa-focused technology venture capital investor Eloho Omame about her career; Africa’s investment potential due to its impressive scale of market and pace of...more
As U.S.-based venture capital funds have become an increasingly significant source of capital for UK start-up and scale-up companies, the negotiation of terms often give rise to gaps in expectations and market norms between...more
Crowdfunding emerged as a popular and innovative method of fundraising for startups, providing a platform for entrepreneurs to raise capital through soliciting relatively small individual investments or contributions from a...more
Food Venture Financing Trends - De Novo, a startup that creates protein-based functional ingredients using microbial fermentation, to accelerate commercialization of NanoFerrin, the company’s flagship product, following a...more
This is the second of a four-part series focusing on estate planning fundamentals for founders. This article will address an important topic for owners of Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) as defined in Section 1202 of...more
Opening a retirement savings plan for employees (including founders!) is often a low-priority issue for startups and small businesses, but several states, including California, are trying to change that. In 2016, the...more
When an investor is thinking about betting on an up-and-coming software innovator, what do they look for? We asked, and they answered....more
Wilson Sonsini’s inaugural Biotech Summit will address topics of critical importance to Biotech and Biopharmaceutical companies, including early and late-stage venture financing, partnering strategies, current and future AI...more
We have previously written regarding founders’ choice of entity decisions as well as a number of tips for entrepreneurs to keep in mind as their businesses begin to operate and grow. But for those founders who have eyes on...more