Fund My Startup Course
A complete guide to raise funds for your startup
How to raise funds successfully
Founders of startups often start with an idea and raise funding from family, friends and fools. Then the moment comes that they have to raise more money and time has come to approach professional investors. To be successful requires a thorough preparation and understanding which bridges to cross during this process. As they say “good preparation is half the work”. This course enables founders to understand the process from A to Z, starting from the type of funding sources to closing a deal. The course is taught by experienced fundraising specialist with over 35 years of fundraising experience.
What You’ll Learn
- The type and sources of funds
- The preparation including; including funding amount, runway and dilution, business plan, pitch deck, teaser and valuation
- How to reach out to and approach investors
- Term sheet negotiations
- Employee incentive plans
- Deal closing
Chapters
Sources of funds
During this chapter we will cover all the different type of investors and way to approach them. This includes 12 modules. The modules are; 2. Introduction 3. Venture Capital 4. Accelerators/incubators 5. Crowdfunding 6. Venture studio 7. Angel investors 8. Family Offices 9. Revenue based funding 10.Venture debt 11. Government loans/grants 12. Summary
Preparation
The preparation phase will cover all the key elements that need to be ready before approaching investors. This chapter includes 8 modules. 13. Funding amount 14. Runway & Dilution 15. Business plan part 1 16. Business plan part 2. 17. Pitch deck 18. Teaser 19. Valuation part 1 20.Valuation part 2 21. Valuation Summary.
Investor outreach
In this Chapter we will cover how and which investors to approach. It consists of one module but probably one of the most important modules with useful links allowing to find the investors yourself
Negotiations, Term sheet
This chapter covers the full explanation of all the key terms and conditions that investors will introduce, from concepts of dilution, liquidation preference, governance, exit terms, minority projection rights etc, etc. To cover it all there are 4 modules, Negotiation Part 1, 2,3 and 4.
Employee Stock Option plan
A critical part of any start up is how to motivate employees and often share is a way to give employees additional motivation to stay with the company and share in its success. Given that it is an important part of how equity is distributed in a company we briefly cover this with one module.
Closing a deal
After you have completed the term sheet negotiation and due diligence is completed the final contracts and agreements need to be signed to close the transaction. In this module of two we cover the key agreements and what they include
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The price for the course is a one time payment, with a money back guarantee if not satisfied after one week of taking the course.
€299
Details
Beginners and experts
3 hrs
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The fundraising course can be obtained by purchasing an Access Pass will allow lifetime access to the course and all the content of the course
Access to All Current and Future Courses For Life
€299
- Lifetime access
- Certification upon completion
- Experienced lectures with fundraising know how
- Test questions after each chapter
- Useful links to fundraising tools in each chapter
- Direct interactions possible with lecturers
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This is the ultimate course to increase your fundraising capability by 10X, well prepared is half the work.