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industry expert

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With speakers & cohort members from

leading companies

Guest speakers and cohort members from companies including:

Designed to help founders gain confidence and tactical skills to negotiate

Better Deal Outcomes & Avoid Traps

Early stage startup founders

Who will soon raise their seed round

Aspiring founders

who are thinking of embarking on the entrepreneurial journey

Practice negotiating all the scenarios you will encounter in your journey as an entrepreneur: cofounder-cofounder, founder-employee, founder-VC investor, buyer-seller, etc.
Gain tactical experience and navigate common pitfalls BEFORE you negotiate with your first institutional investors
Learn to counter the power asymmetry when negotiating with seasoned investors when facing the pressure of an expiring runway

Meet Your

Instructor Lisa Shu

Founder

Special Advisor

Negotiations Professor

Lisa Shu has transformed hundreds of reluctant negotiators into confident deal architects. Coming a decade of experience delivering 1000+ hours of negotiations training to entrepreneurs and investors with operating experience as Founder of the Newton Venture Program: Lisa is passionate about helping founders create and capture value for the teams they build. The odds are often stacked against founders at the beginning of their journeys—Lisa will stack the odds in founders' favor.

Lisa combines practical insight with academic rigour. As a Special Advisor to LocalGlobe VC, Lisa engaged in hundreds of hours of dealflow meetings and witnessed how countless deals have been won–and lost. With deep expertise grounded in her Psychology PhD from the Harvard Business School, Lisa has transformed hundreds of students from reluctant negotiators to confident deal architects. Her former students did not read, stream, or podcast their way to becoming better negotiators. Great negotiators are not born—they are created. Negotiation is a muscle you build through practice.
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A trusted board advisor to various startups, Lisa has personally negotiated long term multi-million deals with a wide range of counterparts including managing directors of investment banks, managing partners of investment firms, deans of universities, and of course, founders of startups.

Lisa Shu

What you get out of

This Course

Join a global network of founders

Join a community of founders who are facing similar challenges - this community alone will be invaluable as you grow your business

Real-life negotiation practice

You’ll receive 10+ hours of actual negotiation experience and will have simulated the most important scenarios entrepreneurs face to avoid the most common founder pitfalls. You’ll be 10x more effective by your last negotiation vs your first

Applicable frameworks

You’ll be fluent in the strategic toolkit taught across all top MBA programs (BATNA, ZOPA, MESOs, etc) and standard VC jargon. Through the course, you will build your own customized scoring system to serve as a roadmap for all future negotiations

Return on investment

Mistakes made in early startup negotiations have outsized consequences. Small issues today compound in future rounds as the stakes grow. What appears to be a 1% rounding error in equity today can be worth 100-1000x in the future. Misaligned people on your cap table can even lead to company ruin down the line.

Guests include

Global experts

Astronauts

C-Suite Executives

Investors

About Lisa’s

Live Cohort

For founders, by founders: role-play the most significant negotiation scenario yet in your company journey. Through actually engaging in negotiation practice with founders like you: you’ll learn the tactics that enhance the chance of success–and the behaviors that might undermine success.

You will learn the most common mistakes to avoid when negotiating with investors who have much more experience, knowledge, and power than you do. Finally, learners gain a community of founders like them facing similar challenges. This community alone will be invaluable to founders as they grow.

Negotiating the term sheet

3pm Thursday June 23rd or 9am Friday June 24th (Eastern Time)

Through role-playing the highest-stakes conversation in each fundraising round, you will learn:

How to navigate key term term elements & potential conflict areas including preference, anti-dilution, and liquidation

How to avoid a tradeoff between the deal outcome you achieve and the long-term relationship with your counterpart

Low power tactics to gain leverage in any negotiation with power asymmetry

Feedback from your negotiation partners highlighting your personal strengths and development areas for real-life scenarios

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to

Become a more effective negotiator

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