Raising Money for Your Start-Up

This class is for any entrepreneur thinking about the next steps of their business, and what it takes to scale.

What You'll Learn

• Introduction and the Funding Landscape. What venture capital is, and whether your business needs it
• Determing your Capital Needs. How to calculate your market size, burn rate, runway, capital need, unit economics, life-time value of a customer, and all the criteria are for how investors evaluate deals.
• Building Your Pitch Deck. The best way to frame your investor pitch.
• Articulating Valutation to Investors. How to put all of the pieces together to communicate and calculate our pre-money and post-money valuation.

What You'll Do

By the end of the course, you will know how to pitch to investors, how to calculate your pre-money and post-money valuation, and how to raise seed, angel, or growth venture capital.

Class projects will highlight building a pitch deck to address investor evaluation criteria, calculating your burn rate, runway, market size, unit economics, and pre-money valuations.

Deliverable. You will create a pitch deck to pitch to potential investors.

Description. You will walk through your pitch including: your hypothesis, burn rate,  runway, and why you need to raise money today.You will know the parameters around the implied pre-money and post-money valuation, and how to articulate your needs and what it means for valuation. 

Specs. By the end of the class, you'll have a pitch deck and a pitch.