
Master creating high-impact events on a zero budget, attract sponsors, and scale with a free one-hour session revealing top five secrets and three sponsorship steps.
Discover how to create and scale startup funding events into a six figure business within a year by automating systems, building a strong community, and leveraging partnerships.
Meet the team behind startup funding events, outlining our core roles, from startup liaison and volunteer manager to head of partnerships and conference management, sharing insights, research, and relationship building.
Learn seven steps to success, from investing time and resources and finding a mentor to defining your why and core values, dreaming big, and pursuing freedom.
Follow a Belgian entrepreneur's journey from early hustle to building Lightning Video Editors, revealing how to win clients, pivot strategies, and balance health, work, and relationships.
Explore the four levels of the stairs of competence: unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, and unconscious competence, using a Brazilian jujitsu analogy to guide learning.
Elvira shares an on-premises funnel solution testimonial, like Clickfunnels, that can serve one person or a company, highlighting its appeal to million-revenue clients and flexibility for about 50 clients.
Turn your idea into reality by researching markets and defining a unique selling point for an event. Target impactful startups to secure funding and clients through a no-brainer, event format.
Define and scale impact by creating direct, positive influence through events and startups, while serving those who serve others.
Explore careers in the events industry, from event manager to partnership and PR roles, and learn the skills, planning, leadership, and adaptability needed for a thriving, full-time event career.
Learn vision mapping to visualize and manifest your dream event through a four-step vision board process: mindset, goal lists, image visualization, and building a digital or physical board.
Learn how to craft premium branding for events by aligning color, direction, logos, and intro videos to project a luxury, consistent brand that boosts sales and partnerships.
Learn to use the budget sheet in excel and cloud template to track personal and business expenses, income, outstanding invoices, and savings with future value insights.
Discover how to build a world-class event team by aligning hires with core values, running a rigorous recruitment and training process, and sustaining culture under pressure.
Learn to land paid partnerships by identifying your one key fan, crafting a no-brainer offer, and building a six to twelve month buffer before scaling your events.
Craft no brainer offers to land sponsorships and partnerships by testing ideas with a one key fan, launching quickly, gathering feedback, and refining MVPs and partnership booklets.
Explore a startup funding event venue tour, detailing seating by roles, expo stands, smooth registration, and networking spaces in a central Rotterdam setting.
Tour the venue for speakers, from check-in and label pickup to backstage access, microphone checks, and a panel discussion with judges and partners in Rotterdam.
Discover the basics of social media marketing with a step-by-step guide that reveals platform psychology, how to write, sell, and market effectively across major networks.
Explore how social media marketing uses daily user activity across platforms and the opportunity it offers. Focus on one platform, build a strategy, and master definitions for effective guidance.
Define social media marketing by tailoring content to each platform’s psychology to drive engagement and shares, leveraging platform-specific strategies to turn traffic into viral results.
Navigate the changing landscape of social media marketing. Grasp key terms: content, context, hashtags, shares, and engagement—and how they drive impressions, reach, and click-through on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest.
Explore the shifting landscape of social media marketing, from dwindling organic reach and rising ad spend to pay-to-play models, channel and tool mergers, and multi-platform strategies.
Trace Facebook’s history from a 2004 Harvard dorm project to a platform and learn to use targeted ads, live, stories, and the Facebook business suite to manage ads and pages.
Set up Facebook ads with precise targeting, lookalike audiences, and Instagram integration to reach your ideal customer, then leverage Facebook Live to boost engagement.
Learn two ways to create Facebook groups: build a group from scratch or link a private group to a new page, then customize cover photos, manage members, and admin settings.
Create a Facebook page with the educational website category, profile photo, logo, and cover, then link or create a private group and manage members with admin tools.
Explore Instagram's history and rise, from its founders to ads, and learn how posts, videos, stories, and tools drive engagement with hashtags, bio optimization, and content ideas.
Discover why Instagram influencer marketing dominates, where 65 percent of brands participate, how stories boost engagement, and how brands use product tags and links to turn engagement into sales.
Discover YouTube's history from its early days to two billion users, and learn to succeed by entertaining or teaching with streaming, video posts, and comments.
Explore YouTube video ads, the second largest search engine, and learn to test six ad types with A/B split testing to identify what works and optimize spending.
Explore LinkedIn's evolution, key growth drivers, and how to leverage groups and ads for B2B lead generation and professional networking.
Explore Reddit’s history, ama culture, and karma-driven voting that surface top content. Learn to engage respectfully, build karma, and avoid marketing fails with examples like Findlay.
Assess whether Reddit is the right platform for ads, then create and monitor campaigns, recognizing demographics of mostly young males and anti-sales content, and respond to heat to unlock potential.
Discover Snapchat's history, its young, active audience, and how fleeting, 10-second content shapes storytelling for brands. Learn creative B2B strategies and live behind-the-scenes snaps for events and conferences.
Explore Pinterest as a premier platform for women-focused marketing, leveraging vertical images, niche influencer partnerships, and seamless ads or buyable pins to drive purchases and product research.
Explore TikTok's history, its features and interactive elements, and learn influencer marketing and four ad formats: brand takeovers, native ads, branded lenses, and hashtag challenges.
Explore Tumblr as a visual microblogging platform built for image curation and GIFs, with endless scroll, a young audience, and creative marketing opportunities.
Medium grew into a top blogging platform with a sleek design and simple publish workflow, enabling direct publishing and reposting of existing content to reach a large, educated audience.
Learn to create a Medium account, customize your profile with a cover, logo, and bio, and preview home and story views across devices before publishing.
Create your first story using the medium story editor, add images, captions, author credits, and links, then customize settings, previews, and publish or contribute to a publication.
Discover how Quora, a question‑and‑answer platform launched in 2009, reached 300 million monthly active users by 2020 and introduced ads in 2016, enabling content marketing via expert answers.
You now have an overview of important social media platforms, over 200 types, and how to establish a presence, craft content and talk like a human to your audience.
Continue advancing in events and social media marketing within this certificate course by implementing lessons and sharing progress, while the team offers monthly updates and 24-hour Q&A support.
Rebrand your YouTube channel to align with storytelling and build a community off-platform, use SEO strategies, and maintain a consistent brand across your funnel; plan a 3–6 month transition.
Harold Kalaya, Reddit's executive vice president of global advertising, explains how energy and three key pillars drive growth with data-driven execution, Google ads budgeting, and consumer-first thinking.
Interview with Sylvia Heda, TikTok Central Europe general manager, reveals how the platform fuels growth through creator support and partnerships. Explore TikTok culture, safety features, and education-driven content.
Explore how a YouTube entrepreneur grew a hydraulic press channel to 2 million+ subscribers, mastering virality, sponsorships, and multi-channel networks.
Discover how a Finnish hydraulic press creator built a multichannel YouTube business through viral videos, ads, sponsorships, and streamlined production and editing workflows.
Discover how human connection combats loneliness, reduces stress, and fuels startup growth through deep collaboration, offline and online networking, and purposeful content creation.
Discover how Gustavo Béranger led Disneyland Paris events, launching Elektra Land and Disney Pride, while shaping the park's event strategy and pursuing music, content, and tech ventures.
Learn how a sponsorship and media rights executive built a global sports licensing business—from local events to Bundesliga rights—through relentless pitching, networking, and adaptive strategy.
Discover how to turn an idea into a profitable event with zero budget by securing sponsors, obtaining free venues, and using branding and online strategies to drive first sales.
Very unique is that we update our course every couple of weeks, and host online workshops, so the value of the course grows exponentially for users who stay longer.
--Certification for people who finish this course included--
Do you believe in making a real positive impact on people?
In this course, we show you how we built Startup Funding Event into an international 6-figure business in less than 12 months (Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Barcelona, other).
This specific 2in1 Elite Event Creator & Social media marketing course is aprox. 12 hours and created on request from our students. It is more heavily focused on getting you up and running. In this course, we will be focused on:
Setting you up (Idea generation & Vision)
Behind-the-scenes of our event planning
Getting sales
Sponsors
Free Venues
Professional-looking branding for your event.
QnA Videos
Social Media Marketing
Fundamentals
Behind-the-scenes
How to sell in the digital age through social media.
Expert interviews (From YouTubers with 5 million + subscribers to Startup Entrepreneurs with 1 million + clients, as well as some surprise marketing champions and global corporates)
Even though it is smaller, it's still ongoing and will be updated monthly with new QnA videos until we've answered all your questions. You can request the next topic once inside the course.
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This is for people who are interested in:
Event management
Social Media Marketing
Social media management
Event organizing
Event Marketing
Creating conferences or festivals
Business events
Group meetings
Kickstarters
Fundraisers
Charity events
Meetups
Event promotion
A great new way to create additional revenue
Event planning
Take your business branding to the next level and get in touch with impossible to reach clients
Start an event
Scale an event
Take your event international
Do not buy this course if:
Only parts of this course may be relevant for you if you are an event planner or looking to create a wedding or be part of the wedding planning crew.
This course is heavily focused on attracting what you need to break even or make a profit on your event. You need to be comfortable with talking to people to accomplish this.
Even if you are a beginner or advanced, our entire team is here to answer your questions, so if you have a unique situation, getting this course is a cheaper way to get access to us.
Extra 1-hour training included.
* And a ton of extras, checklists, design templates, ...
A brand new way to do impactful events!
Do you also find it extremely difficult to create an event that attendants rave about – where you are actually profitable?
For the first time ever, as Startup Funding Event, we’re launching the ultimate online event school for impactful creators.
We’ll be teaching you how we came up with the idea, launched, and scaled our organization to 3 countries in less than 12 months, and from 100+ people to 1000+ people with NO budget.
Is this perfect for you?
This is perfect for you, if you’re a business owner, freelancer or student that wants to launch a product, kickstarter, get more business exposure, credibility or even start an event career.
Get ready!
If you ever wondered how to start, scale or organize an event for charity, business, festivals or more…, but the only thing stopping you is the experience or lack of resources, then this course will be worth it to you.
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We’ll be walking you step by step through the following:
Idea generation
Learn how to find a profitable impactful idea for your event. Extra: Apply it to launch your business products, mobile apps, kickstarters, other.
Infrastructure
Learn how to find and build with the best tools there are to set the foundation of your event strongly.
Attracting paid sponsors
Learn how to build an engaging sponsorship booklet that sells, and creates a loyal community of paid sponsors that support your future events as well.
Organizing
Learn how to build a small intimate meetup or a 1000+ people international event, with 24/7 support, behind the scenes, detailed checklists, and more.
Scaling your events
Learn how to run a growing event agency: How to hire, scale your team, when & how to go international, common pitfalls, of course 24/7 support, and much more.
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Learn
Our learning platform is updated monthly with new videos. If there is a certain topic you want to know about, please request this in the form.
Of course, the practical experience is half the work. That’s why we also invite you to our virtual job shadows, and any of our events, to really get practical with everything you learn.
Culture
We invest highly in the community culture, with live events, meetups, feedback Fridays, and collaborations. It is our everyday mission to create a creative, safe, and fun environment to thrive in.
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About us
The Elite Event Creator Program is a private online event training community founded in 2018 by Startup Funding Event.
It’s the ultimate online event school for impact creators, designed to teach you how to build and scale any event that has the potential to bring good into the world and impact human lives, even if you have no idea on what sort of event you wish to build, technical skills or knowledge about events.
Each year we have thousands of new people from all around the world enter our events and I want to make sure that you can make an informed and educated decision on whether the Elite Event Creator Program is right for you.
What people say about our events
“The event was fun, energetic, and inspiring… Thank you so much team, keep doing what you do, and stay in the core of all this startup energy.”
“This Event really opens up the calendar. And if you can add your network to what they’re doing, I think it’s a win-win situation. I’ll definitely be inviting other partners to join the event as well.”
“Great people, great prizes and sparkling… What I really liked at this event is that it’s about giving back… You can be successful in having a good idea or product. But you can have even more success if you’re in an inspiring environment and today was all about that!”
“I was here as a judge to attend this super event and I really liked it. … It’s not even for the prize, it’s more about getting the stage and seeing how awesome you guys prepared this whole event.”
“I think this event is one of those potential partnerships where you can get a lot of value out of it.
Thank you so much for having us and helping us with the preparations… It was really joyful to be here!”
“The giving back concept of the event as well as the startups making impact is what I love. I think this is the start of a great initiative… Initiatives like this should be started in other places as well.”
“The exposure you’re getting from today is huge! I really like the event … all in all it was a really interesting day!”
“Empowering, inspiring and connecting with other people… what I really like is the connection with all the companies… It pushes me to continue and start connecting with other people. And to keep following my dream.”