Section 01: Welcome to the Course! |
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Welcome to this Course on Capital Raising for Entrepreneurs |
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Section 02: Let’s Get Started Right Away |
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What types of investors are out there? |
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What is the difference between Venture Capital and Private Equity? |
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What stage is your business at? |
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How Much Money Should You Raise? |
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What is the Difference between a Pre Money and Post Money Valuation |
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Section 03: An introduction to Startups |
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Startup Essentials – Markets |
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Startup Essentials – Profits |
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Startup Essentials – Business Plan |
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Startup Essentials – Capital |
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Startup Essentials – Value |
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Startup Essentials – Investors |
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Section Text Summary PDF for Download |
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Section 04: Do You Really Understand Venture Capitalists? |
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Do You Really Understand Venture Capitalists? |
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Do You Match Their Criteria? |
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Four Key Questions to Ask? |
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Understanding the Investment Process |
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Section 05: How to Understand If You Are Talking to the Right Investor |
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Introduction: Understanding Your VCs; A Case Study |
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What Type Of Investor Are You Talking To? |
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A Detailed Breakdown of Different Types of Private Equity Funds |
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What is their Ideal Investment Size? |
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What Stage Do They Invest At? |
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Stage of Business Financing from a VC Perspective |
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How Can You Define Venture Capitalists’ Sector Interest? |
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What Part Does Geography Play? |
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What is meant by Style and Structure? |
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What is meant by Key Investment Criteria? |
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Section Summary: Do You Understand VCs? |
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Section 06: Looking at Things from the VC Point of View |
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What Factors are important to VCs? |
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Considering Valuation from the VC Perspective |
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How do Investors value a Startup? |
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How do Investors Value a Series an Investment? |
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How do VCs look at your Market? |
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What do VCs think about your Product or Service? |
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How Do VCs Evaluate You and your Management Team? |
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Why is Exit Strategy important to VCs? |
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Why are Barriers to Entry important? |
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How do VCs consider your Competition? |
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What Financial Information is important to VCs? |
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What is the typical VC Decision Making Process? |
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Seed Stage VC’s Decision Tree |
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Project: Evaluate Your Own Startup |
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Section 07: What Questions Should You Ask Venture Capital? |
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36 Questions to Ask a VC Overview |
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36 Questions to Ask a VC Part 1 – Fund Profile |
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36 Questions to Ask a VC Part 2 – Investment Style |
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36 Questions to Ask a VC Part 3 – Deal Flow |
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36 Questions to Ask a VC Part 4 – Process |
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36 Questions to Ask a VC Part 5 – Structure |
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36 Questions to Ask a VC Part 6 – Value Added |
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Key Questions That You Can Expect a VC to Ask You |
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Section 08: How to Email Venture Capital and Angel Investors |
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How to Write an Introductory Email to an Investor |
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The Power of Forwardable Emails |
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How NOT to email investors |
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How to Find an Investors Email Address (if you don’t have it) |
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Section 09: What You Need to Know to Present Your Business to Investors |
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How to Deliver a 60 Second Pitch |
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The Sixteen Magic Words Investors Want to Hear from You |
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How to Write a One Pager for a VC |
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Top Tips on Preparing to Pitch Investors |
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How to prepare a Pitch Deck for an Investor |
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How to Prepare a Business Plan and Executive Summary |
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How to Prepare a Financing Strategy |
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Key Elements of the Financial Plan |
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Section 10: Startup Fundraising and Pitching |
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Startup Fundraising – Getting Started |
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19 Reasons VCs May Say No |
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Communicating Your Vision |
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The Business Plan; Overview and Communication |
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Business Plan Core Contents |
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The Financial Plan |
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The Pitching Process and Investor Returns |
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Post Mortems |
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What are Investors looking for? |
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Section 11: How to Deliver Winning Presentation to Investors |
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What do Investors Want? |
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Outline Presentation Checklist |
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What is TAM, SAM and SOM and why are they important? |
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AIDA – Why Pitching VCs Is Like Buying a Car! |
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Selling Your Pitch |
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Pitching to Win! |
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How to Run the Meeting |
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Outline Management Presentation |
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Defending Your Plan |
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ACTIVITY: Create Your Own Presentation |
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Section 12: Managing the Fundraising Process |
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How do Venture Capitalists Source Deals? |
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How to find Angel Investors |
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How to Find Venture Capital Investors |
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BONUS: How to Find a Venture Capital Investor for Your Tech Company |
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What Happens Next? The Investment Process |
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How to Manage the Investment Process |
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Section 13: Venture Capital Term Sheets |
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What is a Term Sheet Part 1 |
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What is a Term Sheet Part 2 |
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Key Concepts in Term Sheets |
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What is a Term Sheet Trying to Achieve? |
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26 Key Components in VC Term Sheets 1 -5 |
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26 Key Components in VC Term Sheets 6 – 10 |
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26 Key Components in VC Term Sheets 11 – 15 |
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26 Key Components in VC Term Sheets 16 – 20 |
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26 Key Components in VC Term Sheets 21 – 26 |
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Negotiating Term Sheets: Entrepreneurs Perspective |
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Negotiating Term Sheets: VC Perspective |
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Negotiating Term Sheets: Mutual Issues of Concern |
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US Style VC Term Sheet Example |
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Section 14: Equity Crowdfunding for Entrepreneurs |
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What is Crowdfunding? |
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The Advantages of Equity Crowdfunding for the Investor |
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The Disadvantages of Crowdfunding for the Investor |
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Section 15: How to Evaluate a Crowdfunding Opportunity? |
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Introduction to How to Evaluate a Crowdfunding Opportunity |
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The Key Data You Need To Know For Any Opportunity |
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Let’s take a look now at Management Skills |
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Management Experience is important as well… |
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You must take a look at the Management’s Commitment! |
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Product Market |
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So, how unique is this product? |
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What is the Competition like? |
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Does the Product have (all important) traction? |
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How profitable is the product and therefore the investment? |
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Let’s take a look at the most critical factor, Cash Flow! |
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Finally, let’s see what this all means for your Investment Returns |
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Discover how you can turn this information into a Methodology! |
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Let’s Summarise this Section with the 10 Most Important Factors |
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Section 16: Introduction with Andrew Monk, CEO iolight about his Crowdfunding Experience |
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Introduction |
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Why did you go for Equity Crowdfunding? |
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What did you do early on to ensure success? |
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How did you go about lining up your 25% |
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Did you set about trying to collect email addresses? |
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Let’s have the Investor Conversation |
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Are there any mistakes looking back you may have made? |
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So what is it like by the end of week three? |
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How does Crowdcube get the money to you? |
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Are there any other tools you used that you can recommend? |
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Bonus: Discussion about Campaign Videos |
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Bonus: Detailed Notes on this Section to Download – PDF Attached |
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Section 17: Summary and Wrap Up |
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Course Summary and Wrap Up |
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Section 18: Additional File |
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Additional File |
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Assignment |
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Assignment – Investment Banking: Venture Capital Fundraising for Startups |
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3 weeks, 3 days |
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