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From Lab to IPO: The High-Tech Start-Up
New: Offered for the first time at the Virginia Campus.
Course #: CS297-AL
Dates: This
class meets for five Saturdays, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.on May 22, June
5, June 19, July 10, and July 24.
Instructor: Tony Stanco (see biography below)
This course is appropriate primarily for engineering or technology
students who intend to start a new business venture or be in senior
management,
such as in the position of CIO, CTO, and CEO. Through the course, students
will discuss issues that C-level executives need to know for taking a
great idea and creating a successful venture. Students will be provided
with lectures and readings to enable them to identify issues in organizing
a business venture around intellectual property.The class will be interactive,
since C-level executives must develop communication skills and be able
to research, analyze, synthesize, and present relevant, complex interdisciplinary
information to peers.
Topics covered in this course are:
• Overview of Venture Capital
• Protecting ideas and inventions through patents, copyright/trademark,
trade secret/licensing agreements
• Getting people to do the work: founders and employee agreements, stock
options, employee benefit plans; consulting agreements; non disclosure
agreements; non-compete agreements
• Choosing a business entity: partnerships/corporations/limited liability
companies, shareholder agreements; directors and executives
• The venture financing process
• Stock purchase agreements/private placement memorandum/term sheets
• Negotiating venture capital financing
• The IPO process
• Federal and state securities law considerations
• Alternative financing: SBA, SBIRs, SBICs, Angel Investors
Tony Stanco, Esq. is the founding Director of the Washington-based
Center of Open Source & Government. He works on software policy,
Open Source, cyber-security and eGovernment with universities and
governments around
the world. Tony has given presentations at the U.S. Congress, various
U.S. defense and civilian agencies, World Bank, European Commission,
United Nations, Inter-American Development Bank, Organization of American
States, World Summit on Information Society, LinuxWorld, Advanced Computer
and Internet Law Institute, and International Computer Law Association,
among others. He has also worked with government and IT officials from
the UK, Germany, Canada, Mexico, India, Denmark, and Jordan.
An
associate director of the Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute
of The George Washington University, he is also an adjunct professor
at GW. Prior to joining The George Washington University, he was a
senior attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission in the group
that regulates the Internet and software industry, where he worked
on over 200 Internet and software IPOs. He has an L.L.M. from Georgetown
University Law Center and is licensed as a lawyer in New York State.
Find out how to register.
For more information contact the instructor, Tony Stanco, directly
by e-mail at tony@egovos.org or by phone at 202-994-5513.
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