How can you build a Silicon Valley Startup?
This is what 26 founders, advisors, lawyers and investors had to say…
Based on his Amazon Best Seller Book - 'Startup'
Andreas Ramos will show you what it takes, how to raise money and become a top founder
We'll Cover:
- The Silicon Valley Iceberg : How Silicon Valley really works and How to break in
- How to Build your Founder Team: roles, limits, problems and advisors
- The 3 stages of a Startup: What you should do and what you should NOT do at each stage
- Incorporation and Stock: When to incorporate (and when not to incorporate)
- Funding: The good and bad about money
Author Bio
Andreas Ramos has led two startups and cofounded a third startup. He has worked at more than a dozen Silicon Valley startups. He is a strategic advisor to fourteen startups in Silicon Valley, France, London, Denmark, and Finland. Andreas was the head of Global SEO at Cisco, where he used 40 languages in 84 countries. He has managed global SEO and Google Adwords for Stanford, Harvard, and MIT.
What's Included In The Course...
MODULE 1
Building Your Startup
- The Silicon Valley Iceberg
- Your Founder Team
- The 3 stages of a Startup
- How to develop your product/service
MODULE 2
Dealing with Incorporation, Stock and Intellectual Property
- When to incorporate (and when not to incorporate)
- How much stock to give to co-founders, advisors, investors
- Why use vesting and how it works
- Single-trigger and double-triggers
- Intellectual Property (IP)
MODULE 3
Working with Advisors, Investors, VCs
- Funding: The good and bad about money
- Type of investors: why they say "yes" or "no"
- All about VCs: How they make money and the problems with VCs
- Selling your startup
- 6 valuation models
MODULE 4
Selling your Startup
- What happens in an acquisition and how to prepare (documentation)
- Your Team: founders, lawyers, investment bankers
- Who should NOT be on your team
- The Other Side: The Buyer
- Why they buy, how to manage them, who sets the price
