Course Curriculum
- 19 sections
- 38 lectures
- 00:00:00 total length
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Welcome to this Course on Capital Raising for Entrepreneurs
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Course Summary and Wrap Up
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Additional File
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Assignment – Investment Banking: Venture Capital Fundraising for Startups
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