
Curriculum Overview.
Amazing facts about startup investing - answers to "ROI" and percentage return on investment vs. stocks, bonds, mutual funds and ETFs.
Apply Blankenship's startup valuation method, scoring people, product, process, traction, and financials for a 100-point total. Investments scale with scores from 90 to 95 and beyond, up to 50 million.
Explore the three core roles behind a billion-dollar startup—hacker, hustler, and growth hacker—and learn red flags to watch for, such as outsourcing everything, feature creeping, and hiring.
Discover how to spot calculated risk takers by evaluating founders who avoid first-to-market hype, pair with co-founders, build an MVP with proven demand, and invest their own money.
The inaction principle shows that fearless action, not fear of failure, drives startup success, illustrated by Originals insights and quotes from Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling.
Identify founders who fear inaction by asking five key questions about motivation, fault for failures, whether to move on, and the mission before failure to reveal ego-driven red flags.
These payment processors and apps will make your startup serious money, much quicker.
Discover three must-read books for building billion-dollar startups: Zero to One, Hooked, and Kings of races, detailing monopolies, habit-forming products, and calculated investing.
Apply the Blankenship startup valuation method to assess startups with a 100-point score across five components: people, product, process, traction, and financials. Guide investment decisions from seed to IPO.
Discover how to spot billion-dollar startups by assessing evangelical adoption and addictiveness, using Apple, Facebook, and Potter girls case studies to gauge word-of-mouth potential.
See how J.K. Rowling built a $20 billion empire from a simple idea to empower kids, overcoming rejection and turning vision into a lasting phenomenon for startups.
Learn to establish clear roles for process within the founding team—designate who leads R&D, sales, and growth, so investors trust traction and invest confidently.
Explore three Ross rules about product needs: verify a need within the first year with a viable product, and distinguish wants from needs to build believers and dependency.
Use capturer score and process and traction score to reach 40 points, evaluating customer understanding (b2b or b2c), community feedback, and focus with blink of starters method and valuation methods.
Learn how founders and investors navigate raising and allocating smart capital, including who, what, where, when, why, and how to negotiate term sheets for private startup investments.
Assess startup value with a 90-point seed-round framework toward a 20 million valuation, using Bourke's method, the comp method, risk factor summation, discounted cash flow, and asset base.
Learn how conversion rights on a term sheet convert preferred stock to common stock, including optional and mandatory conversion, one-to-one rates, and liquidity event implications.
Unpack the subscription agreement as the binding investment purchase document, covering purchase price, representations and warranties, board governance, investor rights, covenants, transfer restrictions, and dispute resolution.
Explain liquidation preference on the term sheet, how it determines who gets what in a sale, merger, or dissolution, and why 1x to 3x with participation matters.
Understand drag along rights, which force founders and shareholders to vote for a liquidity event such as a merger or listing. Negotiation focuses on thresholds like 67 percent and removal.
Explain employee options pools and four-year vesting with a one-year cliff, aligning founders, employees, and investors while preserving incentives through equity.
Investors and founders learn four must-know languages - Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and PHP - to build websites and MVPs quickly, using starter resources like One Month, Code Mentor, and Code Academy.
Learn to read a cash flow statement, focusing on net operating cash flow and the three categories—operating, investing, and financing—to assess startup health and guide investment decisions.
The Startup Hunt: Bootcamp for Entrepreneurs & Investors - Venture Capital Expert Reveals Winning Secrets to Help You Create the Next Billion-Dollar Startup & Find the Next Unicorn Startups.
About the course on starting, finding, and investing in the next billion-dollar startup companies...
Now offered on UDEMY for a limited time: 4-week period (Regular $1200 value) for free. We only ask that upon signing up for our course, you purchase our accompanying book on Amazon titled "The Investing King" by Ross Blankenship and you place a 5-Star review here on Udemy if you enjoy our course. We love helping startups and founders like you.
Founders: Create your own billion-dollar startup company and launch your own new profitable company.
Investors: Get access to invest in seed, series A, and early-stage, mega-hits, and startups.
To help entrepreneurs and founders build the next billion-dollar companies; to help investors profit by early investing in future IPOs and founders like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and J.K Rowling. This investing course, and our company, Angel Kings, will help you get to the next level. Whether you’ve got a business idea you want to pursue, or you’ve got the money to invest, we’ll guide you through every step of startup, until you’re ready to IPO. From the term sheet, and financials, to how to negotiate your first deal, this course contains everything you need to get started investing. **Book purchase is highly encouraged**
“The most comprehensive course for founders and investors, wanting to build great companies for future generations.”
About the Course on Startups and Investing:
In this comprehensive 4-week boot camp, entrepreneurs and founders (like you) will learn how to create the next big company – the next billion-dollar empire – while early-stage investors will get inside access to learn how to invest in the next big IPOs and future billion-dollar companies.
Official Course Instructions
In order to receive your official course certificate and letter of recommendation, you must complete the following weekly instructions.
You can complete this course at your own pace, faster or slower, whichever you choose.
For founders, you must complete these lessons to receive your certificate.
For investors, we highly recommend you also complete these instructions, but you’re free to simply watch and learn from the videos.
All questions within these lessons are located in the Course Overview document.
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Week 1: How to Find the Next Billion-Dollar Founders & Future Icons (People)
Read Part 1 of our bestselling book, "Kings Over Aces." (You can Purchase on Amazon.)
Download the official course syllabus and overview.
Review and take notes on Part 1 of videos. You should watch these videos over the course of 3 to 5 days and re-review at least two times to understand the fundamentals of startup investing.
Visit our Startup Rankings site, which you can find at our Angel Kings (website) and choose your favorite startup.
Based on the startup you’ve chosen, answer questions from the course syllabus on Part 1: People.
Complete Part 1 Quiz.
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Week 2: The “Product Hunt”: Which products become billion-dollar empires… and why? (Products)
Read Part 2 of Kings Over Aces focusing on Top Startups.
Review videos and take notes on Part 2. Use examples from the startup company you’ve chosen.
Select a startup from the past that has failed (examples from "Kings Over Aces") and explain why in 500 words or less you believe they weren’t able to succeed. What would you have done differently? Include in the quiz below.
Answer all questions from Part 2 of the course syllabus and complete the Quiz.
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Week 3: How to Build a Scalable Process & Startup Traction to Become a Billion-Dollar Company & The Startup Financials: How to Best Understand the Economics and Control of the Term Sheet Deal.
Read the remainder of Kings Over Aces.
Download an official “Term Sheet” online using Y-Combinator's "SAFE Agreement" which you can search for online.
Scenario: complete the term sheet filling in all relevant information on a convertible note based on the startup you chose in Part 1/Week 1. Upload this term sheet using the form below.
Complete the Quiz on Part 3 & 4 below.
Week 4: Bonus Section – Top Resources to Help Founders Build Profitable Startups & Our Investors Maximize Profits.
Re-review videos in Part 2 & 3. You should watch these at least two times and be able to demonstrate full knowledge when asked.
Find the best pitch deck (online) you’ve ever seen… (it could be yours) and email us with reasons why you believe this company will succeed, what things stand out the most in the pitch deck, and what’s missing…if anything.
This is your chance to invest in startups, build your own great company, and become a successful entrepreneur who understands finance and investing!