10,000 Startups Legal Strategies For Startup Success

Managing a startup is challenging enough. Don't allow legal planning to burden your business! Set yourself up for success with "10,000 Startups", a unique book that describes impactful legal planning for startup companies. Author Roger Royse takes you through the successful outcomes that result from strategic legal planning. Startup law is complex and covers a wide range of legal disciplines. This book highlights the questions you should ask to ensure that you have the best possible chance for success.

Roger Royse has practiced law since 1984 and has been working with Silicon Valley startups since 1991. During that time, Roger has counseled thousands of companies, many of which went on to have successful exits or grew to become large companies. All of the successful companies described in this book were benefited from good legal planning in areas such as corporate, tax, intellectual property, employment and securities law. Good legal structure is essential to a successful outcome, whether it be a sale, IPO, or organic growth. Most successful startups started not only with the right team, technology and market, they also started with the right legal planning. Ensure your company's success by equipping yourself with the necessary tools and knowledge to tackle any and all legal matters!

Roger Royse is a partner in the Palo Alto office of Haynes and Boone, LLP and practices in the areas of corporate and securities law, domestic and international tax, mergers and acquisitions, and fund formation. He works with companies ranging from newly formed tech startups to publicly traded multinationals in a variety of industries. Roger is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel and former chair of several committees of the American Bar Association Sections of Business Law and Taxation. Roger has been an instructor or professor of legal, tax and business topics for the Center for International Studies (Salzburg, Austria), Golden Gate University School of Law and Stanford Continuing Studies.

Roger is a nationally recognized authority on agtech – the technology of food production - and the legal considerations for companies in this industry. Roger is also the author of Dead on Arrival: How to Avoid the Legal Mistakes That Could Kill Your Startup and has been interviewed and quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fox Business, Chicago Tribune, Associated Press, Tax Notes, Inc. Magazine, Nikkei Asian Review, China Daily, San Francisco Chronicle, Reuters, The Recorder, 7X7, Business Insurance and Fast Company.