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.