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Startup Seed Funding: From Bootstrapping to Equity Financing
Posted by Early Growth
October 30, 2019 | 1-minute read (123 words)
If you’d like to learn how to take your company from bootstrapping to having an influx of investment capital, this video is for you. In this recording, Sirk Roh, Early Growth Financial Services consulting CFO, and Jonathan Sagot of Fenwick & West Law Firm will cover:
- How to prepare your company for investment capital
- The legal side of creating equity incentive plans
- How to legally do debt financing
- The must-knows of fundraising for any startup
- How friends and family can become investors and equity partners (and potential pitfalls)
- Convertible notes vs series seed
- Valuation and purchase terms
- Term sheet negotiation
- How to legally structure your business for public equity offerings (and future mergers)