🤧 Head and chest congestion woke me up tonight, so I thought I would share this while I have a minute. Take a quick glance at the attached. Looks like a good session at today’s Dallas Startup Week. It just so happens that one of my clients is coming in town and I am bringing her to the session to meet one of the presenters, Kevin Vela, who is also a friend and probably the top venture lawyer in Texas. Kevin did all of Mark Cuban‘s deals from Shark Tank and teaches venture law at SMU. If you are a Texas founder, you owe it to yourself to talk to him. (I have no skin in that game, just the desire to see you get great legal representation.) Whatever state you’re in, one of the things I’ve learned from the data Kevin collects and tracks on Texas startups is that you need to look at the valuations for startup companies in your state, rather than compare them with valuations across the country, which of course would include arguably inflated valuations of companies based in Silicon Valley, New York, Boston and even Austin. Have you set a valuation for your startup company? (VOTE BELOW)

Guys, I recorded a somewhat cringy video to say THANK YOU to you, my members. HERE it is. Be gentle. 😊