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Fennemore Craig Attorneys & Advisors:
Setting up the scene
Fennemore Craig venture Accelerator Program
As you position your new venture for success in the marketplace, you confront many important legal issues that will have
immediate and long-term consequences. For example:
• Should you form your business as an S corporation, a C corporation, a partnership, a joint venture, or a limited
liability company? Will this structure affect how you might raise capital in the future?
• Have you protected your emerging intellectual property—whether through patent applications, trademark
applications, or nondisclosure agreements—from being utilized by other companies or from being leaked from
within your organization?
• Does your new business comply with city, state, and federal requirements and necessary business licenses?
• What benefts are you required to provide for your employees?
• Whom do you turn to when you encounter unanticipated problems or questions?
Through Fennemore Craig’s Venture Accelerator Program, qualifying new businesses and startups can gain access to the
advice, experience and legal documents of a large, sophisticated law frm with a 130 year history of helping clients grow
and protect their business – but on a schedule and a budget designed to facilitate your success.
Clients accepted to the Program will be exempt from our standard retainer requirement, and can defer payment of legal
fees for a certain period of time until the business secures fnancing or achieves meaningful revenues.
Additionally, the Program allows us to demonstrate our commitment to our clients’ success by aligning our interests
accordingly. A separate entity funded by many of our directors will make a small equity investment in relation to the
business founders’ investment.
The Venture Accelerator Program allows Fennemore Craig to leverage its considerable business, fnance, and
entrepreneurial legal expertise to help startup companies become successful. Our vetting process is thorough, and we
seek out companies with compelling business models that cater to unmet market needs.
Aaron Cain
602.916.5318 | [email protected]
J.D., Pepperdine University, 2004
Admitted to Practice: Arizona
Aaron practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, venture capital
transactions, corporate law, contract law, securities law and franchise law.
He has substantial experience in mergers and acquisitions, representing
both buyers and sellers in asset and stock transactions.
Sue is a registered patent attorney and Chair of the Emerging Businesses
and Technologies practice. She represents clients in a variety of businesses,
including equipment repair and manufacturing, robotics, autonomous
systems, insulation, geospatial technologies, restaurants, fnancial services,
online businesses, scrapbooking and materials handling and transportation.
Roy has worked with new and early-stage ventures in the areas of fnancing
and strategic relationships. He is a founding board member of the Nevada
Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology. Roy continues to serve on
boards of privately held entrepreneurial companies and acts as a trustee for
trusts established by high net-worth individuals.
Susan E. Chetlin
602.916.5375 | [email protected]
J.D., University of Virginia, 1984
Admitted to Practice: Arizona, Colorado,
Pennsylvania, USPTO, D.C.
Roy Farrow
775.788.2295 | [email protected]
Business Services Manager
Sam Altman’s Start Up School |http://startupclass.samaltman.com
Maricopa County, Small Business Development Center |http://maricopa-sbdc.com/start-my-business/
• Evaluate the idea for your business by researching similar businesses.
• Do a self-assessment of your abilities and determine where your skills are strongest and where you need to learn more.
• Research the market and your potential customers and do a fnancial analysis on the feasibility of your business venture.
• Business training and online classes are offered continuously at no cost or a nominal cost. These are a sound investment for anyone starting a business.
• One-to-one business advising at no cost. An advisor can be your own personal business consultant, and by signing up with an advisor, you’ll also get resource referrals and have
access to free business information in addition to great business advice.
• Resources like online articles and tips sheets offer answers and advice to meet the challenges of how to start a business.
• Lecture 1, Ideas and Products; Why to Start a Startup
• Lecture 2, Teams and Execution
• Lecture 3, Before the Startup
• Lecture 4, Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing
Arizona Focused Tech Newspaper, AZ Tech Beat |http://aztechbeat.com/category/startups/
Northern Arizona University, Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology |http://www.nacet.org/
NACET—Northern Arizona Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology—is a business incubator and connector of people. We facilitate business growth. We help entrepreneurs build
scalable businesses, bring together the ingredients they need to grow, and look out for obstacles and opportunities.
ASU Entrepreneurship & Innovation |https://entrepreneurship.asu.edu/
The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group serves as the hub for entrepreneurial activity at ASU. Based at ASU SkySong, the group supports students, faculty, staff, alumni and
community members, helping them navigate the wide range of entrepreneurship-related classes, programs and resources available throughout the university. The group also helps
students, faculty and staff launch new ventures and offers several community-wide initiatives designed to build Arizona’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.
*Please visithttp://startupclass.samaltman.com to view the other 15 lectures available.
Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation |http://ceigateway.com/about
The Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation (CEI), a comprehensive business incubator centrally located in Phoenix, Arizona, provides the services, space and support critical to the
development of these early-stage and startup companies. CEI client companies – which represent a wide variety of industries including emerging technologies, software development,
bioscience and renewable energy – beneft from the center’s proactive business counseling and mentoring as well as its state-of-the-art facility to commercialize their business. CEI
does not take an equity share of the company.
The ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center |http://skysongcenter.com/
Start Up Tucson, a Venture Community |http://startuptucson.org/
McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship |https://entrepreneurship.eller.arizona.edu/about/mission
Brazil Scientifc Mobility Program Internships | For more information, contact Eileen Brill Wagner, BSMP Consultant to ASU: [email protected]
Welcome to one of the most dynamic centers for innovation, technology and economic expansion in the western United States. Welcome to SkySong, The ASU Scottsdale Innovation
Center, where cutting-edge companies from around the world come together in an environment designed to foster collaboration and growth. We invite you to learn more about how
SkySong is creating new success stories for innovative businesses.
Startup Tucson grew out of the efforts of a great team of passionate people who volunteered their time over the frst few years. That group came to be known as “Startup Tucson
Organizers”. Our Organizers tend to meet monthly (often, though not always on the 1st Tuesday of each month). There you’ll get a run down of all of the various projects people are
working on, what’s coming up soon and brainstorm ideas for future projects. Examples of projects you can get involved in include:
• Helping organize events like Startup Weekend, Idea Funding, and Hackathons.
• Creating content for marketing including graphic design, logos, or web content.
• Writing content for Startup Tucson News, covering events, doing interview with industry or community leaders, or reporting news about Tucson companies.
The Mission of the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship is to help students improve their potential and advance society by developing an entrepreneurial and innovative mindset. The
vision of the Center is to be a global leader in entrepreneurship and innovation education and research.
Tech Crunch, International Tech Website |http://techcrunch.com/
The Brazil Scientifc Mobility Program provides scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students from Brazil so they can study at colleges and universities in the U.S. in the science,
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) felds. BSMP is an initiative sponsored by the government of Brazil as part of a larger effort to provide scholarships to 100,000 of its
best students to study and intern abroad. After completion of an academic year, students return to Brazil to complete their degrees. The Institute of International Education administers
the program in the U.S.
www. FennemoreCrai g. com | 2394 E. Camel back Sui t e 600 | Phoeni x, AZ | 602. 916. 5000
Start Up Resources
doc_994824958.pdf
In such a brief paper relating to maricopa county, small business development center.
i magi nat i on+i nsi ght +i nvest ment +i mpl ementat i on = i nnovat i on
Fennemore Craig Attorneys & Advisors:
Setting up the scene
Fennemore Craig venture Accelerator Program
As you position your new venture for success in the marketplace, you confront many important legal issues that will have
immediate and long-term consequences. For example:
• Should you form your business as an S corporation, a C corporation, a partnership, a joint venture, or a limited
liability company? Will this structure affect how you might raise capital in the future?
• Have you protected your emerging intellectual property—whether through patent applications, trademark
applications, or nondisclosure agreements—from being utilized by other companies or from being leaked from
within your organization?
• Does your new business comply with city, state, and federal requirements and necessary business licenses?
• What benefts are you required to provide for your employees?
• Whom do you turn to when you encounter unanticipated problems or questions?
Through Fennemore Craig’s Venture Accelerator Program, qualifying new businesses and startups can gain access to the
advice, experience and legal documents of a large, sophisticated law frm with a 130 year history of helping clients grow
and protect their business – but on a schedule and a budget designed to facilitate your success.
Clients accepted to the Program will be exempt from our standard retainer requirement, and can defer payment of legal
fees for a certain period of time until the business secures fnancing or achieves meaningful revenues.
Additionally, the Program allows us to demonstrate our commitment to our clients’ success by aligning our interests
accordingly. A separate entity funded by many of our directors will make a small equity investment in relation to the
business founders’ investment.
The Venture Accelerator Program allows Fennemore Craig to leverage its considerable business, fnance, and
entrepreneurial legal expertise to help startup companies become successful. Our vetting process is thorough, and we
seek out companies with compelling business models that cater to unmet market needs.
Aaron Cain
602.916.5318 | [email protected]
J.D., Pepperdine University, 2004
Admitted to Practice: Arizona
Aaron practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, venture capital
transactions, corporate law, contract law, securities law and franchise law.
He has substantial experience in mergers and acquisitions, representing
both buyers and sellers in asset and stock transactions.
Sue is a registered patent attorney and Chair of the Emerging Businesses
and Technologies practice. She represents clients in a variety of businesses,
including equipment repair and manufacturing, robotics, autonomous
systems, insulation, geospatial technologies, restaurants, fnancial services,
online businesses, scrapbooking and materials handling and transportation.
Roy has worked with new and early-stage ventures in the areas of fnancing
and strategic relationships. He is a founding board member of the Nevada
Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology. Roy continues to serve on
boards of privately held entrepreneurial companies and acts as a trustee for
trusts established by high net-worth individuals.
Susan E. Chetlin
602.916.5375 | [email protected]
J.D., University of Virginia, 1984
Admitted to Practice: Arizona, Colorado,
Pennsylvania, USPTO, D.C.
Roy Farrow
775.788.2295 | [email protected]
Business Services Manager
Sam Altman’s Start Up School |http://startupclass.samaltman.com
Maricopa County, Small Business Development Center |http://maricopa-sbdc.com/start-my-business/
• Evaluate the idea for your business by researching similar businesses.
• Do a self-assessment of your abilities and determine where your skills are strongest and where you need to learn more.
• Research the market and your potential customers and do a fnancial analysis on the feasibility of your business venture.
• Business training and online classes are offered continuously at no cost or a nominal cost. These are a sound investment for anyone starting a business.
• One-to-one business advising at no cost. An advisor can be your own personal business consultant, and by signing up with an advisor, you’ll also get resource referrals and have
access to free business information in addition to great business advice.
• Resources like online articles and tips sheets offer answers and advice to meet the challenges of how to start a business.
• Lecture 1, Ideas and Products; Why to Start a Startup
• Lecture 2, Teams and Execution
• Lecture 3, Before the Startup
• Lecture 4, Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing
Arizona Focused Tech Newspaper, AZ Tech Beat |http://aztechbeat.com/category/startups/
Northern Arizona University, Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology |http://www.nacet.org/
NACET—Northern Arizona Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology—is a business incubator and connector of people. We facilitate business growth. We help entrepreneurs build
scalable businesses, bring together the ingredients they need to grow, and look out for obstacles and opportunities.
ASU Entrepreneurship & Innovation |https://entrepreneurship.asu.edu/
The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group serves as the hub for entrepreneurial activity at ASU. Based at ASU SkySong, the group supports students, faculty, staff, alumni and
community members, helping them navigate the wide range of entrepreneurship-related classes, programs and resources available throughout the university. The group also helps
students, faculty and staff launch new ventures and offers several community-wide initiatives designed to build Arizona’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.
*Please visithttp://startupclass.samaltman.com to view the other 15 lectures available.
Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation |http://ceigateway.com/about
The Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation (CEI), a comprehensive business incubator centrally located in Phoenix, Arizona, provides the services, space and support critical to the
development of these early-stage and startup companies. CEI client companies – which represent a wide variety of industries including emerging technologies, software development,
bioscience and renewable energy – beneft from the center’s proactive business counseling and mentoring as well as its state-of-the-art facility to commercialize their business. CEI
does not take an equity share of the company.
The ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center |http://skysongcenter.com/
Start Up Tucson, a Venture Community |http://startuptucson.org/
McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship |https://entrepreneurship.eller.arizona.edu/about/mission
Brazil Scientifc Mobility Program Internships | For more information, contact Eileen Brill Wagner, BSMP Consultant to ASU: [email protected]
Welcome to one of the most dynamic centers for innovation, technology and economic expansion in the western United States. Welcome to SkySong, The ASU Scottsdale Innovation
Center, where cutting-edge companies from around the world come together in an environment designed to foster collaboration and growth. We invite you to learn more about how
SkySong is creating new success stories for innovative businesses.
Startup Tucson grew out of the efforts of a great team of passionate people who volunteered their time over the frst few years. That group came to be known as “Startup Tucson
Organizers”. Our Organizers tend to meet monthly (often, though not always on the 1st Tuesday of each month). There you’ll get a run down of all of the various projects people are
working on, what’s coming up soon and brainstorm ideas for future projects. Examples of projects you can get involved in include:
• Helping organize events like Startup Weekend, Idea Funding, and Hackathons.
• Creating content for marketing including graphic design, logos, or web content.
• Writing content for Startup Tucson News, covering events, doing interview with industry or community leaders, or reporting news about Tucson companies.
The Mission of the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship is to help students improve their potential and advance society by developing an entrepreneurial and innovative mindset. The
vision of the Center is to be a global leader in entrepreneurship and innovation education and research.
Tech Crunch, International Tech Website |http://techcrunch.com/
The Brazil Scientifc Mobility Program provides scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students from Brazil so they can study at colleges and universities in the U.S. in the science,
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) felds. BSMP is an initiative sponsored by the government of Brazil as part of a larger effort to provide scholarships to 100,000 of its
best students to study and intern abroad. After completion of an academic year, students return to Brazil to complete their degrees. The Institute of International Education administers
the program in the U.S.
www. FennemoreCrai g. com | 2394 E. Camel back Sui t e 600 | Phoeni x, AZ | 602. 916. 5000
Start Up Resources
doc_994824958.pdf