How VCs Think About European Startups with Sramana Mitra
What you'll learn
- Through in-depth interviews with prominent investors, learn what investors think about European startups.
- What is investor-entrepreneur fit and how to look for it before you start looking for funding.
- Why 99% of entrepreneurs who seek funding get rejected by VCs.
- Why traditional VCs only invest in hyper growth startups.
- What the key considerations are for investors when they evaluate startups.
- How entrepreneurs can position themselves for success while building a startup.
- What the common mistakes are that entrepreneurs make when pitching their startups to VCs.
- The fastest way to find the relevant sources of funding when building a startup in Europe.
Requirements
- The only requirement for this course is an open mind and a willingness to learn.
Description
In this course, we will do a deep dive into startup financing in Europe.
Raising money is a low probability game. You need to understand how investors think to be able to raise money successfully for your startup.
During this course, I will be teaching how investors in Europe think about and analyze startups. We will have in-depth conversations around startups with several real world investors.
Designed for tech entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs interested in building startups in Europe, this course provides insights into the minds of several investors operating in this region for many years in their own words.
With this course, we thoroughly discuss with a group of successful European investors the size of their investments, preferences, and the European startup trends they see in their dealflows.
Throughout this course, investors focused on the European startup scene share their perspectives and discuss the trends in the market with me. We hope you will join us.
Europe is generating Unicorns and the investors are becoming more and more ambitious. Nonetheless, some of the erstwhile pragmatism still remains, and the Silicon Valley led hubris of startup investing, while gaining ground, is still frowned upon a bit.
European investors are also developing deeper relationships with their US counterparts, which is very welcome.
The 1Mby1M courses are all heavily based on interview-based case studies on Innovation, Business Models, Go To Market Strategies, Validation Principles, and various other nuances of an entrepreneur's journey. We offer extensive opportunities for entrepreneurs to learn the lessons from the trenches from successful entrepreneurs who have done it before and Investors who support their ambition.
Who this course is for:
- Ambitious entrepreneurs who want to pursue ideas for which they have both passion and expertise.
- Engineers who want to turn their tech knowledge into multi-million dollar revenue businesses by becoming startup founders rather than remain employees.
- Aspiring European founders who want to increase their chances of getting accepted into top startup accelerators such as Y Combinator, Techstars, and 500 Startups.
- Any entrepreneur who wants to learn from successful entrepreneurs who have done it before and from investors who have supported them.
- Professors who are teaching technology entrepreneurship courses in Europe.
Instructor
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Sramana Mitra is Founder and CEO of One Million by One Million (1Mby1M), a global virtual accelerator that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy, and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma. Sramana has a master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2015, Sramana was named one of LinkedIn’s Top 10 Influencers, alongside Bill Gates and Richard Branson.