Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

A note on #1: not all states have laws that specifically protect IP you generate outside of work hours. I have a friend who ran into this exact problem in New York.

Here's a list of states that do have laws that specifically protect IP created outside work:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/401269/states-having-nona...

A decent solution to #2 Register a company #9 Founder vesting

http://www.fairsoftware.net/

Here are some details: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10035989-2.html

IMO there should be an extra point.

#10 pick a leader: there should be one person on your team that should have the final say from the start.