Bridging the Chasm between Entrepreneurial Engineers and Attorneys
Organization:
SKMurphy
Category:
Business
Geographical Area:
San Jose
Start
Date:
3/26/2019
End Date:
3/26/2019
Start Time:
7:00 PM
End Time:
9:00 PM
Event
Info:
How entrepreneurial engineers can make effective use of lawyers and the legal perspective they offer on the challenges their startup faces.
There are a number of different skills that a successful startup team needs to encompass either directly or on a contingent basis: engineering disciplines of many different flavors, user research and customer development, user experience, quality assurance, sales, marketing, finance, and legal. Startup founders who have worked in larger firms as engineers before branching out are often exposed to many of these other disciplines but the legal problem solving mindset may be one they have never experienced first hand until they become a founder.
While entrepreneurs often focus on how to build on anticipated success attorneys are more often constructive pessimists, concerned with having a plan for how things may go wrong with a business relationship with a cofounder, customer, partner, or investor.
About the Presenter: Steve Swernofsky (http://www.losaltoslaw.com/) is uniquely positioned to help bridge the gap between engineering and legal mindsets as he started his career in engineering before becoming a patent attorney for 25 years. Steve will offer a briefing for engineering founders on common challenges they face in understanding a legal perspective. Mr. Swernofsky has a BS from MIT, where he studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He worked in at The MITRE Corporation and at Bolt, Beranek & Newman (BBN) in computer networking and security before attending UCLA School of Law for his JD.
Key take-aways + The best ways to approach your relationship with an attorney. + How to make cost effective use an attorney's time for risk mitigation. + How to include an attorney in your negotiations with early customers but still close the deal. + Key problems you need to get legal input on early.
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