Negotiating Your Series A: Legal Aspects of Early Stage Venture Funding

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This course will conduct a detailed examination of the key aspects of a venture-backed Series A funding round, including the business and legal relationships and interactions between founders, board members, and investors in considering and negotiating the key documents/provisions of the Series A funding round. The faculty will use their experiences representing startups, investors and other key stakeholders in both internal and outside counsel roles to review real-world examples and illustrate the various perspectives of the key parties and their respective negotiation strategies on critical points.