The most successful ventures are founded by entrepreneurial teams rather than individual entrepreneurs, but a large founder team can be problematic as well. In the special case of establishing a university spin-out, the number of founders is likely to be higher, the team members fulfill various roles and have a different level of commitment to the day-to-day running of the company. As a provider of resources and permissions, you can expect the university to become a significant shareholder as well. Splitting the equity equally among university and/or founder researchers might be detrimental to the spin-out in the long-run. So how to make sure everyone gets his/her fair share of equity?
This workshop covers important topics like the size of the shareholding, how to split founder equity dos and don’ts and possible consequences, how to tackle founders who don’t commit 100% or want to continue their academic path as well as provide you with some tools to ease the process of splitting the founder’s pie.
At the end of the workshop you will:
Magdalena Hauser
After studying Management and Economics and Interior Architecture and starting to work within the start-up scene Magdalena founded the I.E.C.T. – Hermann Hauser together with Josef, Johannes and Hermann Hauser in 2016. They focus on providing access to international know-how and smart money. Since February 2018 she took the position of the CEO and became proxy for the Hermann Hauser’s investment vehicle. Her main activities contain amongst others running the investment process, developing new programmes to foster entrepreneurship within the research and science society and building up a startup-friendly ecosystem with national and international partners. Alongside Magdalena works as mentor and coach for different programmes and is co-founder of the non-profit association AI Austria – Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence.
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