Getting Investors for Your Business Startup
What you'll learn
- Different methods to finance a new business
- How to build your management team
- How to hire employees
- The differences between a business pitch and a business plan
- How to create and use plan vs. actual forecasts for your business
- How to write an executive summary
Description
Tim Berry describes the steps you should take to generate a plan to help get investments or loans to fund your startup. From text to financials, Tim Berry offers his expert business planning advice and tips to get you on the road to fully funded. Tim is the founder and President of Palo Alto Software, Inc and a prolific speaker and supporter of Entrepreneurship throughout the United States and the world.
Who this course is for:
- Looking for investment in your business
- Building your business
- Researching methods to finance your business
- Pitching your business idea to a bank or investors
- Presenting your business plan
- Creating financial forecasts for your business
- Hiring employees
- Need help writing your executive summary
Instructors
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- 4.2 Instructor Rating
- 626 Reviews
- 5,060 Students
- 5 Courses
Tim Berry is the founder of Palo Alto Software, makers of the top selling business plan software in the world. He is also the founder of Bplans.com, co-founder of Borland International, author of several best-selling books on business planning, and has a Stanford MBA.
Tim has spent his entire career focused on entrepreneurship and business planning. As a consultant Tim has helped businesses such as Apple, Autodesk, and McDonalds with their business planning.
As an entrepreneur, he started a company from nothing and grew it to own 70% market share without any outside investment. As an educator, Tim taught entrepreneurship at the University of Oregon for 11 years.
In 2001 Tim won the USASBE (United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship) Corporate Entrepreneur of the Year award and a USASBE award for teaching. His books have been published by Harcourt Brace, McGraw-Hill, Dow Jones-Irwin and Entrepreneur Press.