6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
WITI is pleased to present its signature Entrepreneur educational series, the eSeries. The eSeries is designed for early stage, emerging growth information technology and life sciences companies that range from corporation formation to early rounds of mezzanine financing.
Eddie Wang Rodriguez of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. is the main instructor for the 5 part course. Additionally, each session brings guest speakers and industry experts to share their knowledge base and expertise on the pertinent topic being addressed.
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LEGAL ISSUES FOR ENTREPRENEURS eSERIES
Five 3-hour sessions designed to provide the entrepreneur with many of the tools necessary to start and build his/her company. Topics include:
Session #1: From Idea to Formation
Session #2: Intellectual Property
Session #3: Initial Funding
Session #4: Preparing the Financing Presentation
Session #5: Presentation
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Session Three - Initial Funding
Learn what the initial funding process is and how to raise seed/Series A funding. Topics include:
• Seed funding – what is it and how to get it
• Review of a common seed funding methods such as convertible note financing
• Detail review of the Series A financing process, including what VCs are looking for in a Series A financing
• Review of a Preferred Stock Term Sheet and what and how to negotiate the term sheet
About Our Speaker(s)
Speaker:
Eddie Wang Rodriguez
Partner
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
tel: 858-320-3000
email: [email protected]
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Bio of Eddie Wang Rodriguez:
Eddie Rodriguez is a member in the Mintz Levin San Diego office, where
he practices in the Business and Finance Section. His practice is
focused on a full range of corporate and securities matters, including
corporate formation, mergers and acquisitions, venture financing,
technology licensing, and general business counseling for both public
and private companies. He has extensive experience with counseling
public and private companies in the life science, telecommunications,
software, hardware, e-commerce and information technology industries in
a broad range of transactional matters.
Event Date and Venue
This event will be held from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM on Thursday, February 22, 2007 at:
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Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
9255 Towne Centre Drive, Suite 600
San Diego (UTC), California 92121
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This is Session #3 of a 5 part series:
Dates/Times:
Session One, Tuesday, 1/23/2007: 6-9 PM
Session Two, Tuesday, 1/30/2007: 6-9 PM
Session Three, Tuesday, 2/22/2007: 6-9 PM
Session Four, Tuesday, 2/27/2007: 6-9 PM
Session Five, Saturday, 3/3/2007: 9A-1P
Venue:
Offices of:
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
9255 Towne Centre Drive, Suite 600
San Diego, CA 92121
Food and beverages will be served at each session.
Pre-registration for this event is closed and on-site registrations will not be accepted.
About Our Sponsor(s)
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo is a versatile law firm of more than 450 highly qualified and dedicated attorneys representing diverse international clients in many industries, who turn to us for a wide range of legal services and resources. Our clients include major public corporations, privately held and family businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups and emerging growth companies, investors, underwriters, directors and officers, research scientists, medical and academic institutions, public agencies and industry associations.
Clients benefit from the depth of our expertise in both traditional and cutting-edge practice areas. Our legal expertise is coupled with industry knowledge in a wide range of industries, including recognized leadership in a number of fields where our long track record helping clients to succeed has firmly established us as a "go-to" firm: biotechnology and life sciences, communications and information technology, high technology, and health care. In these dynamic and converging industries, clients need counsel who are particularly good at handling complex and sometimes unprecedented situations, and who bring the valuable perspective and insight that results from many years of in-depth experience.
Attorneys here at Mintz Levin are driven by an entrepreneurial zeal that is one of the firm's defining characteristics and which translates into the innovative, energetic representation of clients. We pride ourselves on the quality of our strategic thinking and our ability to think like clients -- to understand the goals, critical issues and opportunities that drive them. Responsive, aggressive problem-solving is a hallmark of the firm and the foundation on which the firm's success and growth have been built since its founding in 1933.
About Our Partner(s)
Contact Us
For more info regarding registration or event details, please contact Jennifer Beckey ([email protected]).
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