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.
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شرح مفاهيم التمويل: الاتفاق البسيط للأسهم المستقبلية(SAFE)، وتأمينات أبقِها بسيطة (KISS)
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يأتي التمويل المبدأي للكثير من الشركات الناشئة من العائلة، الأصدقاء، والمستثمرين الملائكة. لأن مقدار التمويل المُصدر في الأيام الأولى يميل لأن يكون منخفضًا، المؤسسون والمستثمرون يفضلون تجنب الارتباط في مباحثات مطولة وكذلك يفضلون إبقاء التكاليف القانونية في الحد الأدنى.
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Pour de nombreuses startups, au début, le financement provient de la famille, des amis et des investisseurs providentiels. Comme le montant des financements récoltés au début a tendance à être bas, les créateurs d’entreprise et les investisseurs préfèrent éviter de s’engager dans des négociations interminables et limiter au maximum les frais juridiques.
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SHARAXA NUXURKA MAALGALINTA: SAFE IYO KISS
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Maalgalinta bilawga ee shirkado cusub oo badi waxay ka timaadaa qoyska, asxaabta iyo maalgalinta saamiga. Maadaama oo xadiga maalgalineed ee bilawga ayaama hore yar yahay, aas aasayaasha iyo maalgaliyayaasha waxay doorbidaan inay ka gaabsadaan gorgortanka dheer iyo inay yareeyaan wixii kharash sharciga kaga baxaya.
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Starter funding for many startups comes from family, friends and angel investors. Because the amount of funding sourced in the early days tends to be low, founders and investors prefer to avoid engaging in lengthy negotiations and to keep legal costs to a minimum.
The SAFE and KISS agreement formats we are going to discuss in this insight are popular ways of keeping things simple when f… Sign in to continue
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Lauren Cochran is a Managing Director at Blue Haven Initiative. As part of this work she spends more time in sub-Saharan Africa than anywhere else. She is also a member of the Blue Haven Initiative Investment Committee. Prior to joining Blue Haven, Lauren worked for five years at Imprint Capital before the impact investment firm was acquired by Goldman Sachs Asset Management.Encountering grassroots entrepreneurship in Africa inspired Lauren to pursue a career linking social impact and private equity.
Inevitably, at early stages, when you’re working on a SAFE or convertible note, you get into evaluation discussion around the cap, and it just becomes equally as protracted, and difficult as it does in a later stage price round.
For us it really depends on how much information there is, and if you can go with sort of the market cap of one to three million, depending on the market. In th… Sign in to continue
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Shaun Johnson is a Co-founder of Startup Institute. Previously, Shaun was an associate at TechStars, a startup accelerator providing seed stage investment and mentorship.Before that, Shaun was a management consultant in Booz Allen Hamilton’s Strategic Technology & Innovation practice. He has advised companies across the emerging technology landscape, including smart grid energy, healthcare IT, broadband infrastructure & alternative assets.
The importance of building relationships with investors can’t be understated. Oftentimes founders think that the right time to start building that relationship is when you’re in need of money. You’re actually months if not years too late to that party if you start at that point.
There’s a common phrase, ‘lines not dots’, that’s often said in the venture investing community, which means … Sign in to continue
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Dr. Khaled E. Ismail is a Managing Partner at Algebra Ventures. He is the Founder, the Chief Executive Officer and the Chairman at KI-Angels. Dr. Ismail founded SysDSoft Inc. in 2002 and serves as the Chief Executive Officer and the President. He also served as the Business Development Officer at Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E. and the Managing Director at Intel Telecom Mobile Communication in Egypt. He has published over 150 papers in international journals, is editor of three books, the Chairman of three international conferences, invited speaker at over 30 international conferences and symposiums, and holds 14 patents.
You cannot have a process as an angel investor that takes six to nine months until you write the check. Which is more common in VCs or private equities, they do take their time, it’s a six month cycle, sometimes nine month, and because it’s a lot of money and so on, there is patience and there is a process.
If angels would do that, it would be very hard for you, because people are in ne… Sign in to continue
Starter funding for many startups comes from family, friends and angel investors. Because the amount of funding sourced in the early days tends to be low, founders and investors prefer to avoid engaging in lengthy negotiations and to keep legal costs to a minimum.
The SAFE and KISS agreement formats we are going to discuss in this insight are popular ways of keeping things simple when f… Sign in to continue
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