How to Prepare Your Startup for Venture Capital Funding

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During the presentation and Q&A session, you will learn about the essential organizational- and ownership-related issues that need to be properly addressed by your startup so that you will be able to have discussions with early stage venture capitalists without any undesired surprises.

The speaker will discuss the following:

1. What to consider when planning your own venture and still working for others
2. How to structure the initial allocation of equity among the founding team
3. What types of restrictions on the founder’s stock are required by investors
4. Impact of a Stock Option Plan on the company capitalization
5. How much capital should companies consider raising
6. What type of securities should a company consider issuing to investors
7. What are the most important due diligence issues for the investors
8. How to close a financing round without delays

and more!

Please come with your questions, concerns and scenarios.

**About the Speaker:**

**Stan Lewandowski** is a partner at Pillsbury and is based in Silicon Valley. Stan counsels domestic and international companies on optimal structuring, financing, operations, development and other strategic transactional issues.

Stan advises domestic and international emerging growth companies at every stage of development—from startup to liquidity. He handles a variety of corporate and strategic projects, including venture capital and private equity financings, joint ventures and M&A transactions. He also helps clients monetize their intellectual property through licensing and has deep involvement in clients’ day-to-day operations, advising on strategic issues such as structuring and formation, governance, and myriad commercial agreements.

Combining his experience representing many global companies with his Silicon Valley background, Stan has worked closely with investors and companies on domestic, in-bound and out-bound transactions, as well as on-shore and off-shore structures.

Stan also has significant experience advising developers, their affiliates and investors, and financial institutions in connection with commercial and industrial distributed and utility-scale solar and wind projects, valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Stan earned his LL.M. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He received his master of laws and diploma from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland. He also earned a diploma from the University of Cambridge in England.