Dr. Yifat Aran is a visiting scholar at the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, and an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law at Haifa University. She earned her JSD from Stanford Law School where her dissertation focused on equity-based compensation in Silicon Valley startups. More posts by this contributor The ownership of startups is often a mystery. In the absence of a public registry, it is difficult to figure out who owns what. Since most startups incorporate in Delaware, the Delaware Division of Corporations holds relevant information, but you may not be able to get all the information you need, and putting it together from the legal paperwork will be challenging. To understand a startup’s capital structure, you must have access to its capitalization… Click below to read the full story from TechCrunch
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