Crowdfunding and the Benefits of Standardized Documents
Traditionally, running an investment round has meant a lot of work with the legal documents. Getting the Term Sheet and Shareholders’ Agreement into such a document that all parties agree on, can mean a lot of work and legal costs. Quite often it’s also the investors who bring the initial document on the table (as often the entrepreneurs don’t have those in the first place).
But what is the definition of a standardized document?
For me it is a document that is acceptable for all parties (investors and entrepreneurs alike) as such, without any tough negotiation concerning the key issues. The parties could just select between some key options (like in this Term Sheet Generator) and fill-in the blanks, such as the company name, valuation and the amount of funding.
With the “old way”, agreeing on the Term Sheet and the creating the actual financing documents requires a lot… Continue reading
Nokia Outsources Finding the Golden Eggs to the Finnish Startups
Innovation in the big corporations is in crisis. This is obviously no news to many of us. Either there are not enough innovations in the company (typically due to corporate culture focusing on maintaining the Status Quo) or alternatively, there are too many of them. This is the case with Nokia which has in the recent years spent hundreds of millions of euros (if not more) in inventing new ideas, researching many of them, trying out some and patenting quite a few. For one reason or another, many of them have got “no-go” decision for any further action.
Technopolis Ventures, a subsidiary of a Finnish public real-estate corporation, has made an agreement with Nokia to offer some of these left-over innovations for Finnish Start-ups in Oulu and some other selected cities in Finland. Sounds too good to be true? Read on!
Nokia Outsources Finding the Golden Eggs to the Finnish Startups… Continue reading