WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS WORKSHOP?

  • Develop Required Documents

    You'll learn how to develop financials, metrics, and a pitch deck that will resonate with investors.

  • Find Capital

    You'll learn how to source capital for your company whether you're doing an equity raise or a crowdfunding campaign.

  • Run a Successful Campaign

    You'll learn how to run a successful capital raising campaign from start to finish.

Course curriculum

    1. Constructing a Financial Model and Metrics the Easy Way

    2. Finding Break-Even Points

    3. Determining the Right Source of Capital

    4. Reading: The Best Investment is From Your Customer

    5. Reading: You Don't Need VCs

    6. Reading: 3 Profit Eroding Expenses to Avoid

    7. Reading: 4 Metrics That Make Money

    8. Reading: This is Why Your Company is Going to Fail

    9. Reading: How Much Are You Worth to Twitter

    10. Reading: Why Good Companies Fail

    1. How to Find Angel Investors Who Will Help You Win

    2. How to Develop an Army for Your Crowdfunding Campaign (or PR Campaign)

    3. How to Locate Venture Capital Funds That Want to Fund You

    4. Resource: Angel Capital Association

    5. Resource: Gust

    6. Resource: AngelList

    7. Resource: Crunchbase

    8. Resource: Kickstarter

    9. Resource: Indiegogo

    10. Resource: Find the Best

    11. Resource: National Venture Capital Association

    12. Reading: New Money Ventures to Silicon Valley

    13. Reading: Hedge Fund Investors Scout Web Firms

    14. Reading: Hedge Funds and Mutual Funds Increase Investment Pace to Private Tech Companies

    1. Ingredients of an Investor PItch

    2. Best Practices in Crowd Funding (Lessons Learned from Others' Mistakes)

    3. How to Win Over Venture Capitalists

    4. Resource: Foursquare Pitch Deck

    5. Resource: Facebook Pitch Deck

    6. Resource: Airbnb Pitch Deck

    7. Resource: LinkedIn Pitch Deck

    8. Resource: Business Model Generation

    9. Resource: Top Crowdfunding Campaigns

    1. The Art of Cold Calling Angels

    2. The Law of Averages

    3. The Long Road to VC

    4. Reading: Top 8 Things That Make Investors Cringe

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    5. Reading: When VCs Say No

    1. Q+A

    2. Video: How to Raise Capital + Maintain Control of Your Company

    3. Video: Cap Table 101 - Understanding Dilution [Download cap table from YouTube]

    4. Video: Startup School + How to Start a Startup

    5. Due Diligence Checklist

About this course

  • $997.00
  • 43 lessons
  • 0.5 hours of video content

GET ONE-ON-ONE MENTORING FROM EXPERIENCED ADVISORS

Lili Balfour

Lili Balfour is a CFO and advisor to founders building companies that move the world.

She works side-by-side with founders who want to master company building skills.

She helps founders understand their numbers, control their processes, and win the game.

A fractional CFO for over 20 years, Lili serves as a mentor for 500 Startups, Plug and Play, and Loyal VC.

Past clients include: Visual IQ (acquired by Nielsen), Derivix (acquired by FlexTrade), ClerkDogs (acquired by Netflix), Decorist (acquired by Bed, Bath, and Beyond), Practice Fusion (acquired by Allscripts), Alpha Theory, Bag, Borrow, or Steal, Erin Fetherston, Organic Mixology, and Peeled Snacks.

She is the author of Master the Finance Game, a Wall Street Journal Guest Mentor, a contributor at Entrepreneur Magazine, Fox Business News, a blogger for The Huffington Post, a guest contributor for HuffPost Live, and a guest lecturer at UC Berkeley.

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WHAT SHOULD YOU EXPECT FROM FINANCE BOOT CAMP FOR ENTREPRENEURS? FIND OUT BELOW...

Mike Newton

Lili gives a short, but solid course in finance with examples and simple explanations, that anyone can follow. By following the steps and returning each week for the duration of the training, anyone should be able to apply the steps and resources provided and be on their way to raising capital from the right sources and starting a company.

David Raynor

Lili did a great job of covering the basics here.

Mar Anthone

This is another solid course from Lili. It gives a great break down of working with financials for your business as well as ways to create contacts that can help you succeed. It provides a wealth of value on raising capital and understanding what it takes to help your business prosper financially.

Gerard Charlot

Clear, concise, and enough to get your hands dirty.

Pamela Bini

Lili is an incredible teacher. In just 17 lectures she is able to explain and sum up so many important concepts for an entrepreneur and for startups: create a financial model, find your right investor, find alternatives (crowdfunding, friends and family) and much more. Every lesson is concise, clear and so plenty of useful infos that now I feel like wanting to follow more of her lessons! A must for entrepreneurs and startups!

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