What you'll learn

  • Raise money and get one step closer to realizing your true dreams

  • Waste less time trying to raise money from ineffective fundraising sources

  • Understand how to get business loanse

  • Crowdfunding and how to get donations

  • Learn many different sources and strategies to raise funds

  • Fundraising from investors, loans, grants, donations, crowdfunding, and more

  • Understand where to find business grants and which to apply to

  • Personalized fundraising advice from the instructor by asking private questions or posting discussions

Requirements

Get ready and motivated to raise funds for your business

Description

10+ unique and actionable ways to raise money and learn to use each strategy to get closer to your dreams. Includes my 200-page business plan book, which is used by a number of universities. If you are in the process of raising money for your business or wondering how to begin the fundraising process, this course will give you a wide range of fundraising strategies, help you get organized and maximize your chances of success. This course is ideal for people who have a business idea or an early-stage business and need funding to get started or move forward. HOW THIS FUNDRAISING COURSE WILL WORK 1) Learn how to calculate how much money you need. 2) Use a combination of over 10 ways to raise that money.

STILL NOT SURE IF THIS WILL HELP YOU?

Not all the strategies presented in this course will work for you. But since this course gives you a wide range of strategies to raise money, some of them will definitely work. Plus, by combining multiple fundraising strategies, you should be able to reach the sum your situation requires. LATEST COURSE UPDATE: Fundraising websites that help you raise funds for your business Extra resources for finding potential grants More unusual ways to raise funds for your business Most lectures updated to have improved audio and video quality WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO TAKE THIS COURSE Don't focus on just one fundraising strategy like investors, loans or crowdfunding. Give yourself greater potential with a broad view of all the possible ways to raise money. When you understand all your fundraising options, you will be more likely to choose the most effective strategies and implement them better and with more confidence.

Who this course is for:

Entrepreneurs and small business owners, people looking to start a business

Course curriculum

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3

    • Bootstrapping your business
  4. 4
  5. 5

    • Tool to find lead emails to reach out to directly

    • Using FindThatLead browser extension for LinkedIn using Chrome to get emails
  6. 6
  7. 7

    • Crazy ways to raise money
  8. 8

    • Gust: Another website to find investors during your fundraising
  9. 9

    • NEW: Sharing my own first experience talking to a real investor
  10. 10

    • Section introduction - let's learn to create a business pitch deck for investors

    • Pitch poety vs. prose

    • One sentence business pitch/explanation template

    • What investors look for

    • Example of a bad and rambling pitch

    • Outline of a pitch deck

    • Problem and solution sections of the pitch deck

    • Differentiation and why this approach slides

    • Business model

    • Target market size

    • Financials