Chinedu is Cofounder and CTO at Metro Africa Xpress Inc (MAX). He co-leads the MAX Team and directly oversees Product development and Finance. Before MAX, he built experience first working as a Software Engineer, then leading software development teams out of Singapore and Puné at for Fortune 50 companies. He has previously worked at Barclays Capital and Goldman Sachs. Chinedu is passionate about opportunities that create systems of support. He is very interested in community service and charity.
Your legal business
The ‘Your legal business’ course is aimed at founders who want to learn more about the legal implications of setting up their business and the funding concepts for a first round of investment.
The first module focuses on legal basics, the second module on the funding concepts.
Each module has a number of learning resources, which include:
• Theoretical breakdowns where concepts are introduced – relevant to the African context.
• Videos of leading business professionals, entrepreneurs and investors, sharing expert advice,
• Quizzes where you’ll be challenged to apply what you have learnt,
• Useful downloadable templates and documents.
Introduction: Equity investment documents
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Introduction: Equity investment documents 3:57 min
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إلى جانب التمويل الشخصي، هناك طريقتين أُخرتين لتمويل المشروع: الدَّيْن أو تمويل الأسهم.
يكون الدَّيْن عندما يتم إعطاء قرض ويجب رده. في حين أن تمويل الأسهم لا يجب رده لكن يتنازل صاحب الشركة عن نسبة من الملكية للمُموِّل (المستثمر).
سنتكلم في هذه النصيحة الارشادية عن المستندات الأساسية المطلوبة لإتمام دورة استثمار الأسهم.
ما هو تمويل الأسهم؟
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Hormis le « bootstrapping » (démarrage d’une start-up avec très peu de capitaux), il existe deux autres moyens de financer une entreprise : l’emprunt ou les capitaux propres par actions.
Il y a emprunt lorsqu’un prêt est accordé, qui doit être remboursé. Les capitaux propres ne sont pas remboursés mais le ou les propriétaires cèdent un pourcentage du titre de l’entreprise au financier, … Sign in to continue
Marka laga tagi adduunka la haysto ee shirkada cusub, waxaa jira laba dariiqo oo loo maalgaliyo ganacsiga: dayn ama milkin .
Dayntu waa marka amaah la siiyo ee ay tahay in dib loo celiyo.Milkinta lama gudo laakiin mulkiilaha/yaasha shirkada ayaa lahaanshaha shirkada boqolkii inta kamid ah siiya cida maaliyada bixisa, sida maalgaliye.
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Aside from bootstrapping a startup, there are two other ways to fund a business: debt or equity.
Debt is where a loan is given and must be paid back. Equity is not paid back but the business owner/s relinquish a percentage of ownership to the financier, i.e. the investor.
In this insight we’ll talk about the basic documentation needed to close an equity investment round.
Why early stage investors don’t want to own a large equity stake in a startup
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Why early stage investors don’t want to own a large equity stake in a startup 1:32 min
Llew Claasen is a co-Founder and Managing Partner at Newtown Partners (Pty) Ltd. He is also a Co-Founder at Clicks2customers, SynthaSite, and TrafficSynergy. He has been an Executive Director of Bitcoin Foundation since July 1, 2016. He served as Vice President Marketing at Clickatell. He has 12 years of experience in online and mobile product marketing and product management.
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The first thing that we try to do is make sure that the economic incentives from an entrepreneur’s perspective are aligned with us getting them to devote all their time and attention and energy to the success of something which they can see is gonna be of value to them.
So, what we try to do is to match the round size in such a way that, given additional funds coming into the business i… Sign in to continue
What entrepreneurs should realize around valuation
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What entrepreneurs should realize around valuation 1:27 min
Stephen is co-founder and director at ViKtoria Ventures. Through Viktoria Stephen has made several investments and assisted angel investors in Kenya access and make investments. He has consulted widely for early stage innovative businesses training over 400 entrepreneurs, and assisted them in fundraising and deal structuring. In this capacity Stephen acts as the academic director for the private equity and venture capital program in the business school.
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So something interesting, I think, that entrepreneurs need to think about when talking about valuations is really that question of asking themselves realistically if they are telling you that their cap valuation when their valuation is ten million dollars, and you’re coming in and probably you’re gonna get a 10% stake in the business.
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Why hiring a lawyer around closing a large equity round is critical
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Why hiring a lawyer around closing a large equity round is critical 2:03 min
Chinedu is Cofounder and CTO at Metro Africa Xpress Inc (MAX). He co-leads the MAX Team and directly oversees Product development and Finance. Before MAX, he built experience first working as a Software Engineer, then leading software development teams out of Singapore and Puné at for Fortune 50 companies. He has previously worked at Barclays Capital and Goldman Sachs. Chinedu is passionate about opportunities that create systems of support. He is very interested in community service and charity.
Why you should carefully think about who to pick as investors
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Why you should carefully think about who to pick as investors 1:20 min
Eghosa Omoigui is the founder and Managing General Partner of EchoVC Partners. Before this, Eghosa was with Intel for nearly 10 years and his last role was as Intel Capital Director, Strategic Investments, Consumer Internet & Semantic Technologies. Omoigui also drove ICap’s investment focus on next generation semantic technologies, smart data and the realtime web.
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One of them that we see a lot more than, because we don’t talk about, is being careful what comes in our cap table. I think founders don’t recognize how important that is.
There are lots of foreign investors that are very sophisticated that would do backgrounds checks on everybody in our cap table and I know deals that have gone south because there was someone on the cap table that lite… Sign in to continue
Why hiring a lawyer around closing a large equity round is critical
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