A great way to layout your Executive Summary, this is the format that the people over at AngelSoft use. It is a CLEAN format that gets all good points across:

If you build a company, when negotiations happen an angel investor or a VC might want to write you a check for a percentage of your company.

Generally an investor will pass you a term sheet, this is something that is non binding but is a layout of how the company will change, what the investor expects and if it is a good term sheet will motivate the startup team to progress the company.

Some more intesting info on term sheets:

• How to Negotiate a Term Sheet, Part I

Some terms you should know about term sheets:

• Drag Along Rights

Types of investments an investor will make:

• Convertible Debt

Below are some great active communities on asking and getting answers to startup questions.

• onstartups
• startups
• VentureIQ
• Startuptodo a community where you can ask startup related questions.
• NextNY a very active free community where you can ask startup related questions.

A very in dept look into mint.com

This blog post mentions 2% of company to the entire advisory board, 0.25% of company per adviser.

DrChrono.com was featured in an online article for Inc. magazine. Read the full article on their website:
http://inc.com/news/articles/2009/03/layoff.html

There are tons of great resources out there for startups, podcasts being one, I highly recommend listening to the following:

The Startup Success Podcast, Sramana Mitra and Bootstrapping

A great video on the Diggs co-founder Kevin Rose, a look into a successful startup company: