Category: Venture Capital
First Time Entrepreneur Workshop – Saturday September 15th!
Crowley Corporate Legal Strategy and the LA Venture Association (LAVA) are pleased to announce the next First Time Entrepreneur training program. The program is open to entrepreneurs that are starting companies in areas that are likely to draw venture capital investment. The program is not open to service providers.
During the five hour program, you will learn how to:
- Determine the value of your company
- Put together a capitalization table
- Understand how VCs screen potential investments
- Understand the differences between trademarks, copyrights and patents and when you need them
- Choose and work with co-founders
- Network at startup events — the right way
Julie Pantiskas of Pasadena Angels will also be the guest investor speaker.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit: https://www.lava.org/events/first-time-entrepreneur-workshop-1
LAVA – Los Angeles VC Panel
Thank you to the LA Venture Association (LAVA) for hosting the Los Angeles VC Panel and LAVA Annual Membership Meeting last week.
ENTREPRENEUR WORKSHOP
Join us on Saturday September 15th for our next First Time Entrepreneur workshop!
The program is open to entrepreneurs that are starting companies in areas that are likely to draw venture capital investment. (The workshop is not applicable to service providers).
TICKETS: https://www.lava.org/events/first-time-entrepreneur-workshop-1
During the workshop you will learn how to:
- Determine the value of your company
- Put together a capitalization table
- Understand how VCs screen potential investments
- Understand the differences between trademarks, copyrights and patents and when you need them
- Work with co-founders
- Network at startup events — the right way
May 5th, 2018: First Time Entrepreneur Workshop
Missed this year’s first FTE Workshop? Then, join us Saturday, May 5th for our spring session!
The program is open to entrepreneurs that are starting companies in areas that are likely to draw venture capital investment. (The workshop is not applicable to service providers.) Click here to RSVP
During our five hour program (runs from 10am – 3pm), you will learn how to:
- Determine the value of your company
- Put together a capitalization table
- Understand how VCs screen potential investments
- Understand the differences between trademarks, copyrights and patents and when you need them
- Choose co-founders
- Network at startup events — the right way
The program will be taught by LAVA board members and veterans of the venture space. The program is generously sponsored by Crowley Corporate Legal Strategy.
LAVA Members are free; non-members $50. LAVA members will receive first preference, but membership is not necessary to be accepted.
February 17th, 2018: First Time Entrepreneur Workshop
Thank you to everyone who attended our First Time Entrepreneur Workshop on Saturday! We hope you enjoyed the workshop, the book, and our guest speaker Rob Vickery. And thank you to LAVA for hosting the event!
First Time Entrepreneur Workshop with VC Speaker: Rob Vickery
We are pleased to announce that Rob Vickery founder of Stage Venture Partners will be joining us at our FTE Workshop on FEBRUARY 17th, 2018! Click here to sign up
About Stage:
Stage Venture Partners is a seed venture capital fund that invests in emerging technology for B2B markets.
Founded in 2015 by two entrepreneurial partners, Stage is designed to deliver active and thoughtful investment. One of us is a successful international operator who has built global businesses. The other an experienced angel investor and venture capitalist with a strong track record.
Stage invests in Founders building frontier technology for enterprise clients. We offer access, services, and expertise that are unique in our market, leading to remarkable results for our portfolio.
We are not thesis, geographic or sector focused, but instead business model focused. We invest only in software companies that solve problems for companies, monetizing either through SAAS or transaction fees.
Rob Vickery:
Before founding Stage with Alex Rubalcava, Rob created the Entertainment and Technology Division for BNY Mellon and was the North America Director for Lloyds International, one of the world’s leading financial institutions, focusing on major corporate entertainment-related investments. He has also spent a number of years working and advising a range of international music and film talent on embracing with new forms of technology.
Rob is also on the board of the British Academy of Film Television Arts (BAFTA) LA Games, British American Business Council, South Central Scholars and the Chairman of the School of Business & Entrepreneurship at Dorsey High School.
Rob graduated from the University of Gloucestershire, UK, in 2003. In his downtime, Rob is an amateur paleontologist, snowboarder and gaming addict (come and find me on PSN (BeverlyHillsBrit) or Xbox Live (saasfundr)
School’s Back!
I am so excited to be back at Loyola Law School teaching Business Planning I: Financing the Start-Up and Venture Capital Financing this semester!
The course motivates students to consider the legal and business implications involved in forming and operating an emerging business. The course, much like my First Time Entrepreneur Workshop, analyzes:
- The deal cycle of a start up company
- Selecting a business entity
- Structuring the economic benefits
- Management control among various owners
- Protecting intellectual property
- Raising capital
During this course law students learn to apply these ideas by reviewing and analyzing legal documents typically used in organizing and financing a start-up. The goal of the class is to prepare students for the types of projects and challenges they will one day confront as lawyers.
I look forward to this semester, I know it’ll be a great one!
January 27th, 2018: First Time Entrepreneur Workshop
Calling all first time entrepreneurs!
LAVA’s First Time Entrepreneur workshop is scheduled for Saturday, January 27th, 2018!
At this workshop you will learn how to:
- Determine the value of your company
- Put together a capitalization table
- Understand how Venture Capitalists screen potential investments
- Understand the differences between trademarks, copyrights and patents and when you need each of them
- Choose co-founders
- Network at startup events — the right way
For more information and to sign up, visit: First Time Entrepreneur Workshop
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