• Developing critical thinking skills as to devise strategic solutions for some of the most common legal challenges faced by tech-based startups.
• Understanding how the law can shape and limit how entrepreneurs develop their business ideas.
• Understanding common legal challenges facing tech-based startups from the perspective of a founder or in-house counsel, developing a deep business knowledge with this broad context.

This is a scenario-based course whereby students will be exposed to the various legal and adjacent strategic areas that affect a startup during is lifecycle. It covers areas most startups have to deal with such as intellectual property, data protection, tax or raising finance using a scenario based approach. It is designed from the perspective of a founder who needs to anticipate legal issues that may be relevant for its startup or team members with an in-house counsel kind of role.

It will adopt a EU perspective and will be "jurisdiction agnostic", that is without focusing on specific legal issues arising from a given country's national law, but applying those global connections to local communities where appropriate.

In addition, since tech-based startups are able to address large markets beyond the confines of national boundaries, where possible the focus will be in European and cross-border issues.

The course is designed in a way that makes class attendance extremely important including to the practicals since much of the learning will happen via the exercises done in class and the preparation for those. For students to extract maximum value from the course, it thus also requires their commitment to do work outside class be it individually or in groups.

Since the course covers multiple areas, there will be no core textbook. Instead, the course will use freely available materials, both from the CBS library and from outside sources.