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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Raising Funds for Your Startup
The course presented the various sources of finance used by entrepreneurial ventures, the preparation of financial forecasts as well as valuation methods, the negotiation process with potential investors, the investment criteria used by investors, the financial and legal aspects of a financing round as well as the key issues of post-investment phase (venture management structure and exit).
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Christophe Bonnet
Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance
Grenoble Ecole de Management
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify the potential investors in startups and understand their decision process and their selection criteria
- Design a sound financing plan in order to estimate the financing needs and the value of the startup, which determines the founders ‘dilution when raising equity
- Reflect on the process and the main issues of the negotiation of agreements between founders and external investors along successive financing rounds
- Identify the key points to watch in order to succeed the post-investment phase and prepare the exit.
Syllabus
- How to identify and convince potential investors?
- How to estimate the financing need and the value of the venture?
- How to negotiate with equity investors?
- How to prepare and succeed in the post-investment phase?
Issued on 30th December 2020
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