Step–By–Step Guide To Raising Vc (Taught By A Former Vc)

What you'll learn
How VC & angel investors make decisions
How to create and run a competitive fundraising process
How to create a compelling pitch deck for venture capital investors
What to expect during due diligence
How to build a financial model for your start-up (templates provided)
How to build a product roadmap for your start-up
How Cap Tables, SAFE Notes, and Priced rounds effect your ownership
Requirements
An interest in fundraising for your start-up in the next 6-12 months
An interest in learning about how venture capitalist's work and make decisions
Description
Raising Venture Capital is a nebulous process. The concepts of VC fundraising are actually very simple - the problem is that they are unwritten. This bootcamp is meant to serve as a step-by-step guide to help you prepare for and execute the fundraising process with confidence. Filled with real exercises, templates, and guest lectures from 4 different seed stage venture capitalists, this class is meant to serve as a field manual to help you raise capital. Why did we design this course? If you've ever taught some one your favorite card or board game and watched them play for the first time, you'll empathize with the pain you feel watching some one make all the classic mistakes. As venture investors, that is how we felt watching our portfolio companies fundraise. This was not because they were unsophisticated or lacked the capability. It was because we had the benefit of seeing dozens of transactions every month, watching the best of the best fundraise. Our Founders on the other hand, had to spend all their time working on their business and often would only fundraise once every 18-36 months. We built this playbook to ensure our Founders didn't make those common simple mistakes that so many founders make in their fundraising journey. We wanted to give our Founders a simple playbook that they could follow to ensure they ran a competitive, momentum driven process and got the best outcome they could for their business. Therefore, this course is not about theory. This is a field manual that will guide you along the steps to get the best terms for your startup. Today, this playbook has been transformed into a talk that has been given at accelerators and some of the top MBA programs in the world, including Wharton, Harvard Business School, and Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. It is taught by Oliver Spalding, an Instructor at The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and early-stage investor. It is TA'd by Pancrazio Auteri, a multi-time exited founder & CPO who now serves as a coach for Berkely Haas's SkyDeck Accelerator program.
Overview
Section 1: Module 1: Investor Psychology
Lecture 1 Intro and Themes of Course
Lecture 2 Roadmap of Bootcamp + Homework
Lecture 3 Intro to Investor Psychology (+ Workshop)
Lecture 4 Investor Psychology: Why Now? (Workshop)
Section 2: How to run a fundraising process?
Lecture 5 Timeline of a Fundraising Round and Defining your Goals
Lecture 6 Tech Tools and your CRM
Lecture 7 How to Manage Investor Conversations
Lecture 8 Running a Process
Section 3: Module 3: Storytelling + Pitch Decks
Lecture 9 Intro and Review of Materials to-date
Lecture 10 Intro to Start-up Storytelling
Lecture 11 Rima Reddy - Principal at Commerce VC Guest Speaker
Lecture 12 Storytelling Finish
Lecture 13 Pitch Tactics
Section 4: Managing Due Diligence
Lecture 14 Intro
Lecture 15 Diligence Materials
Lecture 16 Guest Speaker: Jon Sklaroff - Principal at Optum Ventures
Lecture 17 Diligence Materials 2
Lecture 18 Due Diligence Cont
Section 5: Financial Modeling for Start-ups
Lecture 19 Why do you build a financial model?
Lecture 20 Financial Modeling 2
Lecture 21 Guest Speaker: James Shecter, Investor at Fika Ventures
Section 6: Product Roadmap
Lecture 22 Product Roadmap
Lecture 23 Pancrazio Q&A
Section 7: Negotiating and Closing a Venture Deal
Lecture 24 Walkthrough of Dilution Modeling Spreadsheet
Lecture 25 Intro to SAFEs
Lecture 26 Intro to Priced Rounds + Term Sheets
Lecture 27 Closing Thoughts
Section 8: Extra: Harvard Business School Lecture on Valuation Benchmarks
Lecture 28 Extra: HBS Lecture on Valuations
Section 9: Extra: Seed Stage Financial Model Walkthrough
Lecture 29 Intro to the Financial Model
Lecture 30 3-Year Forecast
Lecture 31 Revenue Build
Lecture 32 Business Development Hiring
Lecture 33 Cost of Sales
Lecture 34 Headcount
Lecture 35 Closing it out: Big Picture Overview
Lecture 36 Expenses
Start-up Founders that wish to raise money for their start-up
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