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#BU-04-10 Raising Funds for Your Startup

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#BU-04-10 Raising Funds for Your Startup

  • Categories Business
  • Duration 18h
  • Total Enrolled 4
  • Last Update September 21, 2020

About Course

Grenoble Ecole de Management

Description

Understand the process of funding a start up

Almost all startups need external financing, but new entrepreneurs rarely have training in fundraising.

On this course, you’ll learn the basics of financing a start-up. You’ll explore how important financial backing is for success and how to attract and negotiate with investors.

What topics will you cover?

  • 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?

Who will you learn with?

CHRISTOPHE BONNET

CHRISTOPHE BONNET

Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management and angel investor. Teaching and research in entrepreneurial finance. Advisor for incubators. Previously worked in corporate finance and in private equity.

 

 

Who developed the course?

Grenoble Ecole de Management

Grenoble Ecole de Management

For the past 30 years, Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) has established itself in France and abroad as a leading business school through expertise in technology, innovation and entrepreneurship.

 

What Will I Learn?

  • 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.

Topics for this course

17 Lessons18h

Why and how do startups raise funds??

Why do startups have to raise funds from external partners and what makes their finances different from that of other enterprises?
Welcome!
Why and how do startups raise funds?00:03:31
How and why I raised funds, Sylvie Sauvaigo, founder et CEO, LXRepair00:06:32
Learn more: Glossary and course textbook

Who accompanies and finances startups??

During the course, we will follow the progress of a young entrepreneur, Aude. She has never raised funds before and does not know how to go about it. To start, we will explore the various sources of funding for startups.

How to choose investors??

Aude is wondering how to approach fo fund her project and how to choose the right financial partners.

How to convince investors??

Aude has identified equity investors who could finance her venture, but she has to convince them! What is their decision-making process? What criteria do they use to select projects?

Student Feedback

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YA

I learned more about entrepreneurship. I also gained some new skills to help my entrepreneurial path.

FH

This course is great. It solves a lot of my worries and gives me enough confidence to start my own business. thank you

LF

Almost all start-ups need external financing, but few new entrepreneurs receive training in financing. It's a great course to give entrepreneurs a training course in financing.

RC

Good information, especially about learning the basics of start-up financing.

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Material Includes

  • Official Certificate

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CHRISTOPHE BONNET Grenoble Ecole de Management

Target Audience

  • This course is aimed at entrepreneurs who are considering or preparing a financing round. It can also be useful for students of entrepreneurship or management, and to anyone wishing to get a better understanding of the actors, processes and consequences of a financing round.
  • A general knowledge in business will help, though it is not required.
  • This course is taught by a French team, but all course resources will be in English or subtitled in English.