Venture finance foundational knowledge online course by venture finance expert brad Furber. learn the basics of what you need to know before approaching any investor and asking them to invest in your startup.

What will you learn in this course?

Part 1: Common securities and instruments

• Common stocks
• Convertible notes
• Safe note
• KISS
• SAFT
• Series seed
• Preferred stock
• Convertible preferred stock
• Revenue backed notes
• Venture debt/leasing
• Tokens 
• ICO
• STO
• Overview of common securities and instruments

Part 2: Key economics terms and conditions

• Liquidation preferences
• Pay to play
• Vesting
• Reverse vesting
• Equity incentive pool
• Anti-Dilution
• Overview of key economic terms and conditions

Part 3: Key control terms and conditions

• Protective provision
• Board of directors
• Drag-along agreement
• Overview of key control terms and conditions

Part 4: Other negotiable terms and conditions

• Dividends
• Redemption rights
• Conditions precedent to financing
• Information rights
• Registration rights
• Rights of first refusal
• Voting rights
• Restrictions on sales
• Proprietary information and inventions assignment
• Co-sale agreement
• IPO shares agreement
• Founder's activities
• Indemnification
• No-Shop agreement
• Overview of other negotiable terms and conditions
• Sweat equity
• How you can compensate
• Securities, tax, and employment laws
• Labor laws

Bonus lesson

• Fundraising journey from the perspective of the saas company founder and venture finance academy student sam cook
• sam cook, the co-founder and CEO of vanity desk and also the executive chairman and founder of James cook media with brad Furber the founder of venture finance academy told a case study story on how brad helped the vanity desk team raise $1.35 million in the midst of a global pandemic.
• If you founded a startup, you got to be kind of crazy to do this. Raising money is like climbing a mountain. It’s hard work. and it’s gonna take a lot more time, energy, and money than you think. no getting around this fact.
• That’s exactly why we created the venture finance case study, which goes into what you need to do (mentally and physically) to get through the journey ahead.
• The venture finance case study is a free-flowing interview brad Furber did with one of his students, sam cook. In this interview, sam and brad walk through all the parts of the venture finance academy (tons of content in here), and then he shares his story on how he successfully applied it.
• It took sam 16 months to close his pre-seed round of investment (totaling over $1.35 MM and counting). this may sound like a long time, but the vanity desk story (as crazy as it is) is actually fairly typical - for those lucky enough to raise the money they need.