Next 6th october, ECIJA co-organizes the workshop “Catalonia Access to Silicon Valley – Building & Funding a Great Startup”, where Roger Rappoport, a former entrepreneur of 10 years, currently the founder of Access Silicon Valley and Xavier Muñoz, partner at ECIJA, will bring together both European and Silicon Valley perspectives that will help entrepreneurs build a great startup.

Startup issues that will be covered in this workshop (among others):

• what Silicon Valley investors are looking for, and how to position the company to be most attractive for those investors;
• choices in entity selection;
• creating an appropriate capitalization table;
• co-founders vs early employees (should they be treated differently?);
• appropriate allocations of founders’ stock (including Series FF Preferred Stock) between founders and vesting, repurchase rights and rights of first refusal;
• determining if and when it is appropriate to obtain proxies from co-founders/early employees;
• stock allocation for employees, consultants, board and advisory board members;
•  when milestone based vesting, as opposed to time based vesting, is appropriate;
•  the assignment of intellectual property, and ensuring that all IP created belongs to the company;
•  executing employment/consulting agreements;
• how to develop an effective funding strategy, so that you sell the right security, to the right investor, at the right time; and
• the value of developing an intellectual property strategy early on.

AGENDA

15:00 to 15:30:  Recepción asistentes

15:30 to 17:00:  Roger Rappoport

17:00 to 17:15:  Coffee break

17:15 to 18:00:  Xavier Muñoz

18:00 to 19:00: Panel con Ignacio Fonts

19:00 to 19:30: Q&A

19:30 to 21:00: Networking

Click here to access the event´s site and the full program information.