Legal fundamentals for startups

Everything you need to know when building a tech startup.
These courses are based on over 5 years of delivering workshops to main education, incubation and acceleration programs.

Setting up the entity

When and what type of entity you need.

Intellectual property

How to protect your work.

Personal data

Making sure you’re compliant with the GDPR.

Clients contracts

Protecting your customer relationship.

Team contracts

Onboarding your colleagues.

Investment

How to raise with legal peace of mind.

Setting up your entity_

In this course you’ll learn:

  • how to choose between various options.

  • what a shareholders’ agreement is, when you need it and what to include in it.

  • how to work with different types of shareholders (founders / investors / advisors / service-for-equity providers).

  • what taxes you need to pay for the most common types of companies.

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Intellectual property (IP)_

In this course you’ll learn:

  • what is IP and how you can identify it.

  • different types of IP that may appear in your company.

  • how to protect your IP (coptyright, trademark etc.).

  • how IP needs to be handled in different cases (between founders & company, with employees, with externals, when granting IP to clients).

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Personal data_

In this course you’ll learn:

  • what personal data is and how you can identify it.

  • what processing personal data means.

  • what a privacy policy should include.

  • what to consider when building a product.

  • about privacy provisions in your contracts.

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Clients contracts_

In this course you’ll learn:

  • the differences between B2C and B2B agreements.

  • the structure of a general commercial agreement.

  • different types of agreements you can use with your clients.

  • how to conclude, execute and terminate agreements.

  • about consumer protection rules and their applicability.

  • how to implement exclusivities, non-compete and non-solicitation clauses.

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Team contracts_

In this course you will learn:

  • what types of agreements you can use to build your team.

  • about the differences between employees and contractors.

  • how to conclude, execute and terminate agreements with your colleagues.

  • how to protect company assets when a team member leaves.

  • general ideas about taxation for your team.

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Investment_

In this course you will learn:

  • how an investment process works.

  • how you can prepare for an investment.

  • overview of a termsheet and what to be aware of.

  • best practices when structuring your round.

  • different methods to obtain an investment.

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