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Sample founders’ agreements are available online for download by anyone. Though there are numerous accessible founders’ agreements, a document downloaded from the web is not one you should rely on when establishing your new venture. 

In a short video, Adv. Yuval Lazi explains the guiding principles in granting options, how you can estimate how much the options are worth, and what is important for an employee to know when he receives options.

This video deals with the questions of when to sign an NDA and how much protection it really gives.

Below are some important terms every entrepreneur should know before undertaking his or her first investment round.

How you negotiate with an angel investor goes a long way in determining whether you will receive funding or not. Click to read some top tips for negotiating with a potential angel investor.

The GDPR craze has left everyone trying to tick off all the boxes in terms of regulatory compliance, while little attention is given to addressing: what happens if you actually get attacked.

If you’ve discovered that your company has been hacked, the first 48 hours are absolutely critical. Knowing how to actively marginalize further harm and eliminate cybersecurity vulnerability can be dealt with in the first 48 hours with an incident response plan.

Before selling your business, consider these factors to guarantee your company is fully prepared. Following are pertinent reasons why business owners cannot afford to risk a hands-off approach to planning a business exit strategy.

When you build out your business model, you need more than a great product or service. Innovative brilliance and new ideas matter, but they are not enough. By the time you are ready to raise capital, you should be able to outline for your potential investors a clear market strategy.

When you are ready to raise money to begin or expand operations for your startup, you cannot just ask and wait for money to pour in. Today’s investors are savvier than ever. They need to understand the value you create, for investors and for the market your company will serve. You need to understand your business model thoroughly, but you should also prepare concise answers to the questions any smart investor will ask.

Much of the research and development that goes into new technologies occurs in academic and research institutions and laboratories. But this does not in itself create the new products and processes that change the world. Rather, the technologies are transferred from these academic institutions to the companies that will develop marketable applications.

Today’s world holds more cybersecurity threats every day than it did the day before. Expert estimate that Israel faces 100,000 cyber-attacks every day, and 10 times that amount in wartime. Given the constant threat against businesses and the government, Israel’s national focus on fostering cybersecurity technology and growth seems almost obvious.

The life sciences are advancing at dramatic rates in capabilities and goals. For most of human existence, we have been trying to keep up with the path of diseases as they emerge. Now, we are starting to push more toward prevention and improvement of life in a forward-looking manner. Israel sits at the front of the developmental curve, with over 1,200 active life sciences companies. With its national innovative drive and start-up mentality, Israel provides fertile ground for growth in the sector.

The world around us is changing. In labs and living rooms around the world, people are creating new technologies and finding new applications for existing and emerging technologies. The products and services available to everyone thus expand exponentially every year. In the next five years, then, you can expect massive growth in what we can do. Three areas in particular will provide important developments.

Israel’s ‘startup boom’ has grown unfettered for decades. Its emergence as a nation of opportunity for business creation and innovation came not by accident, but through careful planning, tendency to think ‘outside the box’ and constant strive towards execution. All of which have been accomplished due to ability of Israel to support and grow qualified and innovative individuals. After years of steady growth, though, the country now faces some challenges to its positioning in the technology sector. Shortages in their high-tech labor pool and a need for companies to grow more within the country are forcing adjustments. How Israel navigates these concerns will have a significant impact on the year ahead for high-tech companies.

Forming a start-up begins with a great idea. This may be a product or a better way to do something, and it represents the seed from which your company grows. But planting the seed is just the first step. Moving from creating a company to running it as a CEO requires careful, diligent work in a number of areas. Your transition into leadership will often make the difference between your company’s success and failure.

Engaging in any business startup can be risky, and even more so when you are attempting to initiate a startup in the technology sector. Available risks cross both B2C and B2B vectors, and while the risk percentage can fluctuate between said vectors, it clearly illustrates the wide array of risks present for your technology startup. When these risks are combined with potential missteps by the founders of the technology startup, a perfect storm can be created that only terminates with the complete failure of the endeavor.