How to avoid the pitfalls of equity, options, and intellectual property in US startups
Thanks for the invitation of the Seattle Entrepreneurship Association, this week on August 28, 2020, 8:00PM - 10:00PM Pacific Time, to share corporate law.
This time we will talk about equity, options, and venture capital. And then there's the Q&A, so be prepared to ask questions. This event is only live, so don't miss it! Live link
Seattle Entrepreneurship Club
CodeDay is a non-profit organization that provides students who want to learn Code rich and diverse learning and practical opportunities to explore the future of technology and other fields. Now, more than 50,000 students have built a number of high-profile projects at CodeDay events. As the founder of the nonprofit, Tyler Menezes runs it like a startup. This Friday night, Tyler Menezes, will introduce the history of CodeDay.
Prior to this, Tyler Menezes also had a very memorable entrepreneurial experience. He dropped out of college to start a startup and quickly raised millions of dollars from Y Combinator Ventures. However, in the end, due to many mistakes made in the entrepreneurial journey, the startup company eventually failed. In this sharing, Tyler Menezes will also summarize his personal experience and talk about the most common mistakes in the process of starting a business. He will share how he learned from the experience of startup failure, applied to CodeDay and helped Codeday to succeed.
Guest introduction
Tyler Menezes
Executive Director atCodeDay
Executive Director of CodeDay. Tyler was born in Canada. He studied at the University of Washington, dropped out to start a social video startup, and received a million-dollar venture capital from Y Combinator. He has also worked as a programmer at several startups and in machine learning research at Microsoft. Since 2014, Tyler has been in demand for digitally driven solutions that increase CS diversity and enrollment.
In his spare time, Tyler helps run programs in Garfield High School's CS program and organizes the public speaking event "Ignite Seattle".
Invitation card
Time
September 25, 2020, 8:00PM - 10:00PM PT;
Ways of registration
This event is live only for zoom registration, please click the link or scan the QR code:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9PDmyNzLRqOYRsv9GMIgYA
Introduction to SEC
Seattle Entrepreneurship Society (SEC) is a non-profit organization initiated and created in April 2008 by a group of professionals and entrepreneurial enthusiasts in the greater Seattle area. The West Creation Club aims to unite high-level entrepreneurial talents and teams from around Seattle to North America, build a platform for entrepreneurial talents and teams, entrepreneurial investors and people in various professional fields to communicate and cooperate, and provide diversified services to help all parties. Achieving success to drive the growth of entrepreneurial activity in Seattle and North America. At the same time, Xichuanghui also focuses on cooperation with organizations in different industries and fields in China and in the Seattle area to jointly promote the exchanges of enterprises, talents and cultures between China and the United States. Since its establishment, Xichuanghui has attracted and developed more than 2,000 entrepreneurial enthusiast members, and has been developing continuously. Please follow our official account and WeChat group. Entrepreneurs can fill out the form below: http://bit.ly/secstartups
