Digital Access: Startup Agreement & Team Building Content

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When you have redeemed this perk, you will gain access to Startup Agreement & Team Building Content by StartupCommons.

About the Startup Agreement & Team Building Content

​A shareholder agreement is a validation that a startup has become more than a dream, an idea or a product. It is THE core document defining founders roles, rights & responsibilities, ownership levels, rules for shareholder entry & exit situations, vesting, confidentiality, intellectual property rights (IPR's) and more. Asking about the SHA is one of the first questions on professional investors, lenders or advisors due diligence checklist.

​​The focus of this interactive 2h 50min SHA eLearning Module is on the key elements in building the founding team and team commitment, using the founder's shareholder agreement (SHA) as the key "tool" and framework. On the shareholder agreement topic, we focus specifically on the business logic, process, benefits and value of making a shareholder agreement (less about the legal side).​

The format of this digital eLearning module is a combination of a training session with recorded Q&A and open discussion provided by Valto Loikkanen, an experienced international serial entrepreneur. This module is part of Growth Academy, 'Discovering the startup world' -startup entrepreneurship & innovation training curriculum to build understanding about the startup world through startup development phases -framework.

The topic of this webinar is most valuable for founders and entrepreneurs at the formation and early validation phases that are forming their founding teams, specifically aimed at startup founders and founding team members, as well as for other team members looking to join an early-stage startup in "sweat-equity" types of positions (freelancers, advisors, trainees etc.).

Digital Content covering Topics such as:

• How to look for and communicate when looking for a co-founder?
• What are the big things to find alignment and how to talk about these topics?
• What kind of contracts should you draft or sign before you register a company with other people/another person and at what point should you start to consider those?
• How should we divide our ownership? What is the best logical way?
• For how long should this contract last?
• What if someone from your team leaves the company before the contract ends?
• Can you modify the contract if something doesn't go as you planned, and how do you go about doing that?
• What are some of the most relevant "what if" situations that may occur and how to handle those?
• Investors and SHA - The role of shareholder agreement in a fundraising process?
• Various SHA agreement types and what are the differences?

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