We have shared some documents in the Tekedia Startup Masterclass program. Among others, they include the following:

• – Sample Business Concept Note/Investment Brief
• – Sample Founders’ Agreement
• – Sample Equity Transfer Agreement.

Please we’ve shared purely for academic purposes all the documents to help learners get to speed. As always, we expect you to review with your lawyer anything you are sending out.

“A Founders’ Agreement is a contract that a company’s founders enter into that governs their business relationships. The Agreement lays out the rights, responsibilities, liabilities, and obligations of each founder. ” We recommend that for any new company. The oral “trust” or “we agreed verbally” is not enough!

More Founders and young CEOs are choosing Tekedia Startup Masterclass as they build, picking critical tools and knowledge systems to turn ideas into great businesses. Join them here 

The amazing #India, we welcome you to Tekedia Mini-MBA. Extremely very excited for the responses which we are getting from schools, companies and learners. The team led by Asif Chowgule is available to answer all questions. I also want to thank specifically the recruitment agencies in India which are providing new vistas to prepare workforce of the future.

In India, to register for the next edition of Tekedia Mini-MBA or any Tekedia Institute program, please reach out to Asif. Just today alone, 50 joined – it looks really amazing.

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Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard is already causing disruption in the game market, with Sony Group Corp. suffering the first impact. The company’s shares fell 13% in Tokyo on Wednesday, their biggest drop since October 2008, following Microsoft’s announcement of the acquisition, Bloomberg reports.

Microsoft announced its acquisition of Activision Blizzard on Tuesday, in a $68.7 billion all-cash transaction. The deal sent vibration through the game industry as it paves way for Microsoft to lead the market.

Bloomberg reports below that the acquisition will put Sony in a difficult position, as it means the company will no longer lead the game market.

The blockbuster acquisition escalates Microsoft’s spending spree to secure intellectual property assets for its Xbox Game Pass service, wiping $20 billion off Sony’s valuation in a day. The push to attract paying subscribers with an overwhelming portfolio of games challenges Sony’s traditional console business model that relies on high-profile exclusive titles and hardware sales. Games and network services account for about 30% of Sony revenue.

Microsoft announced Tuesday that it has more than 25 million Game Pass subscribers and “will offer as many Activision Blizzard games as we can within Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass,” spanning both existing and new titles, according to Xbox chief Phil Spencer. Call of Duty, Diablo and World of Warcraft are among several highly successful franchises developed under the Activision Blizzard umbrella.

“Sony will have a monumental challenge on its hands to stand on its own in this war of attrition,” said Amir Anvarzadeh of Asymmetric Advisors. “With Call of Duty now most likely to be added exclusively to the Game Pass roster, the headwinds for Sony are only going to get tougher.”

Elsewhere across the games industry, publishers rallied in the wake of Microsoft’s announcement, with Capcom Co. and Square Enix Holdings Co. up by more than 3.7% in Tokyo. Analysts, including Jefferies’ Atul Goyal, saw the move as raising valuations for game companies with strong content and IP portfolios.

Sony has maintained a consistent lead in sales and exclusive games over Microsoft’s competing offerings across several PlayStation and Xbox generations. Now that its Redmond, Washington-based rival has signaled its determination to spend freely to close that gap, Sony will be under pressure to respond.

“Sony will struggle to match Microsoft in terms of money it can spend to buy popular game IP,” Morningstar Research analyst Kazunori Ito said. “Falling shares illustrate investors are worried that Sony may not be able to keep winning if indeed the industry shifts away from the hardware-based model.”

Never abandon the field because harvest is near!

There is time for everything because seasons come and seasons go. Time for planting, time for harvesting. To harvest, you certainly need to plant.

But that is not all: sometimes we plant, but yet abandon the field, before the harvest.

The past taught  the trade, and the future provides ways to profit from it. Do not give up in the middle. I used to beg for places to speak; today, my problem is how to respectfully decline invitations to speak!

Master the seasons, and understand there is harvest, after planting, if you do not abandon the field by nurturing it.