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Part III: Legal Issues in Fundraising for New Businesses
Produced on January 18, 2016
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Course Description
It is common knowledge that a business needs capital to survive, grow, and thrive. Savvy business attorneys have many tools at their disposal to help clients obtain and maintain the capital they need. In this course, attorney Todd Kulkin provides a primer on many of those tools, preparing you to determine which ones are best for your clients and how to employ them for the maximum benefit.Â
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Learning Objectives:
I. Â Â Understand the major fundraising strategies
II.   Prepare your client’s exit strategy (and plan for it)
III.  Delve into the mindset of your client’s potential investorsÂ
IV. Â Navigate debt financing options (and avoid sharks)Â
V. Â Â Determine the optimal entity formation based on fundraising strategiesÂ
VI. Â Identify valuation methods and strategies
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Faculty
Todd Kulkin
Law Offices of Todd Kulkin
Todd Kulkin specializes in providing legal advice to small/medium sized businesses, start-ups, and non-for-profit organizations. He started his legal career at a large New York law firm. While working for that firm, his time was split between two practice areas: general liability defense and providing corporate and regulatory advice to major corporations. He uses his experience as a civil defense litigator to advise clients about their liability posture and how to mitigate. He left the firm to start his own practice in 2012 and, since then, has expanded his expertise to intellectual property and socially responsible entrepreneurship. Todd graduated with Honors from Brandeis University and with a J.D. in Financial Transactions from University at Buffalo (SUNY) School of Law.
An animal lover, Todd sits as Director of Corporate Relations for Mighty Mutts & Meows: a no-kill, 501c3, all volunteer animal rescue organization in New York City.
Reviews
Great presentation!
Excellent prsentation
Excellent summary
He was excellent
Very substantive presentation in only 60 mins of time
Very good presentation
Great overview. Todd Kulkin's presentations are terrific and will be listening to more. Thanks.
Good course -- excellent primer on fundraising options
THis is the second time I have used his program and probably will watch others as well.
I would look forward to a crowd funding follow up
Todd Kulkin is a terrific presenter with a sharp sense of humor.
The entire series was great. Practical and easy to follow.
Very Well Done
This is a really great overview course or a refresher course, very helpful information, and materials. Thank you very much for putting this together!
Great summary of the rules
Great Speaker
good overview
Very thoughtful.
Good course.
I recently moved to SF and fundraising is a huge issue here. Was happy to have this information.
Good Overview.
Wish it were longer! Please have him do more courses!
I now almost regret my usually high ratings I give to presenters here as that makes my "stupendous" grade here have less value. I have the inclination, but, regrettably, not the time, to go to an on-line thesaurus to look for more superlatives. This has been the one session that had the most per$onal value to me, so I was particularly happy that it was first class.
This was a great programme! Loads of well presented issues in start up finance.
The presenter seemed very happy to be presenting, which is always nice!
He's great. I am planning to take all parts of this series
always a good lecturer with practical information
Excellent!
I found this fascinating. Not in my area, but answered so many of my questions about subjects related to my area.
great practical insights.
Easy to understand; pleasant speaker
Great presentation!
Heavier lifting than I expected, but outstanding and very thorough presentation.
great coverage of the topic
Very good course!
Have Todd Kulkin do more Lawline programs
This session was very informative about the financing options and securities regulations. I would like to see more about fundraising and pitfalls to be aware of for practitioners.
Well done. Extremely useful course.
Very informative lecture!
First rate speaker
Interesting topic, well-handled
Great course and knowledgeable faculty
Informative yet entertaining speaker
Great topic and series
This guy is really good at teaching or imparting information. I liked his style.
He was very clear and engaging
Very informative.
very up-to-date information on funding rules - kulkin's continued passion on this topic makes this series easy to absorb.
Excellent Presenter
lots of technical info for novice--great course
Todd is a great speaker.
Lively & informative presentation!
Good primer course on items covered in overview!
Kulkin knows his stuff.
The teacher was engaging and easy to listen to. I look forward to taking more of his courses.
great cle
Speaker is knowledgeable, but presentation should be longer and in more detail
Thanks very much, Todd, well done!
Terrific series!
Great presentation
this speaker was very easy to understand and knowledgeable
Good presenter.
Excellent presentation skills
He's an excellent speaker and the material is terrific!
Great speaker and course.
Very worthwhile and informative.
remarkably on-point
Good basic overview with good examples. Very engaging.
Well done!
Loved Todd Kulkin's presentation. Will be viewing more of his seminars.
Todd Kulkin's class, like his other classes, was organized, informative, and nicely presented.
Very informative seminar.
HE was good!
One of the better overall programs I have seen on this program for doing all the right things but not doing to much of them.