Eric A Koester

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If you are looking for additional information on various legal and business issues facing startups, check out my blog.  Or order a copy of my book "What Every Engineer Should Know about Starting a High Tech Business Venture." 

About My High Tech Startup blog ()

These writings are meant to provide some information (andoccasionally an insight or two) to individuals involved in theentrepreneurial world. Entrepreneurs, investors, techies, inventors,lawyers, accountants, futurists, bankers, candlestick makers, lovers,fighters, Olympians and anyone else who stumbles across this pagewondering where to find Seattle on a map may find this useful. The blogwill cover topics ranging from legal issues faced by startups to trendsin venture capital to a sense of the Seattle entrepreneurial communityto my own personal interests in technologies or life. If there issomething that you’d like to see or a question you’d like me to try andanswer, just let me know. I’ll do my best.

You’ll see some great cartoon images here on the site.  Thanks to Kansas City artist Travis Fox who drew the images you see here and provided the images in the book.

What Every Engineer Should Know About Starting a High Tech Business Venture

That’s the title of a book I’ve written (yes, it is a bit long, but it is part of a series… sothink “Starting a High Tech Business Venture” for short. This websitealso contains previews of chapters of the book, documents you candownload that are referenced in the book, and information I would haveliked to cover, but there just wasn’t enough room. I may be biased, butI think the book is a good resource and hopefully, in conjunction withthis website, becomes an even better one.

The formal bio

Eric A. Koester is an attorney with Cooley Godward Kronish LLP (prior to Cooley, with Heller Ehrman LLP’s Venture Law Group) and has a practice focused on emerging technology companies, venturecapital firms and investment banks, with particular emphases on venturecapital and bank financings, corporate partnerships, commercialagreements, intellectual property licensing, public offerings, andmergers and acquisitions. Eric is a graduate of the business school at Marquette University and a graduate of The George Washington University School of Law. Eric is also a certified public accountant.

Prior to joining Heller Ehrman, Eric held financial and accounting-related positions at Morgan Stanley and Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. While attending law school, Eric held positions in the Enforcement Division of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) (formerly NASD, Inc.) assisting with ongoing securities industry enforcement proceedings, as a Summer Associate at the Government Accountability Office in Washington, D.C., and in the legal department of the Health Industry Group Purchasing Association (HIGPA) focusing on issues of antitrust in the healthcare contracting industry.

Eric is married to Allison Koester, a PhD candidate in Accountancy at the University of Washington. They have two pugs, Bailey and Riley. Eric loves to travel and his lifelong goal is to make it to all 100 of the Hillman Wonders of the World. So far, 38 down… lots to go.

For more about me, you can also visit my LinkedIn page here.