Five ways to kill your company before it starts

In this two-part workshop, Jason Putnam Gordon, venture capital and emerging growth company attorney and UCSC Silicon Valley instructor, discusses five common startup-killing mistakes that entrepreneurs often make. (Part I-Feb. 2 and Part II-Feb. 16)

PART I Topics - Feb. 2, 6 p.m.

Formation
Founder vesting
Financing
Employment law
And more

PART II - Feb. 16, 6 p.m.

Intellectual property
Commercial agreements
Litigation
Tax issues
And more
Presenter

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JASON PUTNAM GORDON, B.A., J.D., is an emerging growth company and venture capital attorney at Polsinelli LLP. Prior to joining his current firm, he ran his own boutique corporate law firm. Previous positions included working as an attorney at Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP, and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC. He was a judicial law clerk for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Gordon received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Wake Forest University and a law degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Villanova School of Law. He practices law in San Francisco and is licensed in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia. He previously taught business law as an instructor at UC Berkeley Extension.

NEW STARTUP SERIES

Also, learn about Jason’s new live-online course, Foundational Legal Issues of Emerging Growth Companies starting March 4. This is a course in our new Silicon Valley Startup series, a joint project with Silicon Valley Ignite. For more information, visit https://www.ucsc-extension.edu/series/silicon-valley-startup/.

REGISTRATION
https://bit.ly/3ouKXxF
We'll use the same Zoom link for both dates.