ScaleUp Speaker Series: Open Forum Recap

Morrison Foerster offers a free ten-part series on the legal side of founding a startup. This weekly Friday seminar will arm you with the knowledge needed to manage the legal aspects of launching, funding, and growing a startup, with insights to avoid common mistakes that can have serious consequences down the road.

We are hosting this cycle of ScaleUp Speaker Series as a hybrid event offering participants the option to either attend virtually or in person in our Palo Alto office at 755 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA, and kindly note that we will also provide lunch.

Topics covered by this one hour session include:

• Incorporating a startup
• Intellectual property basics for startups
• Raising angel financing (including convertible note financings)
• Raising venture capital investment (deal terms and structure)
• Most common legal mistakes of startup entrepreneurs
• Startup equity incentives
• Follow–on venture financing complexities​​​
• Selling your startup
• Initial Public Offerings

To register, kindly email your LinkedIn profile to Vishal Singh at ECVCevents@mofo.com.