The Short Version
Our new company, SparkToro, LLC has just completed a $1.3mm angel financing. And, because we think our structure might be right for many other businekasses, we’re making our documents open-source for anyone to use.
The Story
SparkToro is, obviously, a product of my and my cofounder, Casey‘s, experiences in the mostly venture-backed worlds of software startups. The…
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Casey (SparkToro’s cofounder) and I have lots of experience in this…
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