A lecture for organisations · 90 minutes · On site / Online
Startup Legal and Financial Basics
Founders sign customer contracts, confidentiality agreements and freelance terms they cannot actually read, then discover what they agreed to during due diligence. This lecture puts the legal and the financial side in the same room, because a founder needs both and the market insists on selling them separately. It works through the choice of business structure, what a contract is really promising, the mundane ownership problem that kills deals, meaning work created by a freelancer, a co founder or on a previous employer's time, and how to read a profit and loss statement without handing the whole picture to a bookkeeper.
The content is matched in advance to your audience and goals on a short fitting call.
- Duration
- 90 minutes
- Format
- On site · Online
- Built for
- Startup founders, Early employees
What your audience takes away
- ▸Read a contract well enough to know what you are agreeing to.
- ▸Weigh the business structure choice on consequences you actually understand.
- ▸Close the ownership gaps left by freelancers, co founders and previous employers.
- ▸Read a profit and loss statement and tell profit apart from cash.
- ▸Know which questions genuinely need a lawyer or an accountant.
Who this lecture is for
Built for accelerator and incubator programme managers filling the legal and financial slot in a cohort curriculum, regional small business agency branches and municipal business development centres running early stage entrepreneur courses, and university and college entrepreneurship programmes and student venture clubs. Coworking spaces and founder communities that want practical rather than inspirational content book it directly. Social venture and non profit accelerators, where founders arrive with no commercial background at all, get a version that assumes nothing. Startup people and finance leads book it for early employees.
Who delivers the lecture
Alexander Slutsker
Business consultant, entrepreneur and founder of Mobius Business Solutions
- ✓14 years of entrepreneurship and consulting, dozens of businesses and managers accompanied in Israel
- ✓MBA in Hi-Tech and Entrepreneurship
- ✓BBA in Marketing and Finance
What organisers say
Alexander's lecture is simply a must for every pre-army programme or youth centre. Our young people received an amazing, practical toolbox for adult life. The content is delivered in a fascinating way, at eye level.
How booking works
- 1
Get in touch
Send a WhatsApp message or use the form, with the date, the audience and the setting.
- 2
A short fitting call
On the call the content and examples are matched to your audience and goals.
- 3
The lecture is delivered
On site or online, 90 minutes, questions from the room included.
Worked with
- Google for Startups
- הבית לעסקים של עיריית שדרות
- Microsoft Reactor
- GameReady
- SderoTech
- IUCEL
- Resilience & Health Innovation Hub
- International Resilience Institute of Sderot
Want this lecture at your organisation?
Send a message with the date and the audience, and a short fitting call matches the content to your organisation.
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Frequently asked questions
Does this cover both the legal and the financial side, or do we need two separate speakers?
One session, both halves, which is the reason it exists. Law firms publish on the legal side, finance providers publish on the financial side, and a founder is left assembling two incomplete pictures. The lecture connects them at the points where they actually meet, structure and liability, contracts and revenue recognition, ownership of work and company value.
Is it aimed at pre revenue startups, or is it the same material as a general small business finance workshop?
It is written for the startup stage specifically. General small business finance content is built around established operations with steady customers, and its worked examples are clinics and studios. None of that speaks to a pre revenue venture with investors, a cap table and development spend, so this session starts from that reality instead.
What does the session say founders can handle themselves versus what genuinely requires a lawyer or an accountant?
It draws that line explicitly, which almost nothing else does. Content written to sell professional services has an obvious incentive to leave founders feeling helpless. Here founders learn which decisions are theirs, which documents they can read unaided, and exactly where professional drafting or professional judgement is worth paying for.
Do you cover ownership of work created by freelancers, co founders and previous employers, or only registration?
Assignment gets the attention, because that is the failure mode that actually derails deals. Most published material treats intellectual property as registration and patents, while the thing that surfaces in due diligence is a contractor who was never asked to assign what they built. The session covers when that assignment has to happen and what it looks like when it was missed.
How is this different from the subsidised entrepreneurship courses our participants can already take?
Those courses are broad and general, covering business planning for anyone starting anything. This session is narrow and sequenced for the startup path, giving an order of operations, what to settle before incorporating, before the first hire, before the first customer contract and before the first investor conversation. It complements a general course rather than repeating it.
Part of the audience is experienced and part is new. Will it work?
Yes. The depth is set in advance on the fitting call, examples are matched to the sector, and the base assumes no prior knowledge. Audience questions give the experienced their room too.