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Business Entrepreneurship Venture Capital

How to Raise Funds: For Women.

Be prepared to raise funds: Learn how to finance your business and grow.
Rating: 5.0 out of 55.0 (1 rating)
545 students
Created by Alicia Castillo Holley
Last updated 8/2015
English
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What you'll learn

  • Create an irresistible commercial deal that fits with your own interest
  • Understand the differences between Unfunding, Equity, and Debt Funding
  • Establish a credible and action-based funding strategy
  • Learn the major pitfalls in getting funds from founders, family, and friends
  • Overcome obstacles to raising capital that are common to women
  • Be confident and professional about the funding process

Requirements

  • A basic understanding of business is required. Students that do not have such knowledge might contact us for specific information.
  • Knowledge about financial terms is recommended: balance sheet, income statements, cash flow, equity.

Description

Women receive less than 2.7 % of Venture Capital investments and it is time to change these numbers.

Research shows that despite all gains in many fields, women still lag behind in growing businesses. Some claim investors are not recognizing that women develop firms differently, that they take fewer risks, that banks would not lend as much, but the reality is quite DIFFERENT. Women are less confident and less prepared to raise funds. This course was developed to overcome these two weaknesses. In particular you will:

1. Become aware of your relationship with money.

2. Evaluate and overcome, if necessary, any of the Ten Unwealthy Habits.

3. Understand the financial world of business (also applicable to non-profits).

4. Define your goals.

5. Understand key financial concepts and funding mechanisms.

6. Select the sources of funding that better fit your goals.

7. Establish a funding strategy.

This course is structured in building blocks, so you can do as deep or superficial as you'd like. Browse through the mini-videos, read the supporting texts, revise your understanding or watch the interviews.

Whether you are ready to raise funds, want to help others, learn the basics, we are here to help.

If you are a consultant, contact us to create a program for your group.

Who this course is for:

  • This program is tailored to women who want to create or grow companies with high impact. If you want to create a solo-firm or run a small company, this program is not for you.

Course content

7 sections • 43 lectures • 2h 31m total length

  • Preview39:49

  • Unfunding
    04:19
  • Equity Funding
    01:51
  • Debt Funding
    03:40

  • Introduction to Unfunding
    02:19
  • Reverse Financing
    02:01
  • Crowdfunding
    02:30
  • Factoring
    01:43
  • Leasing
    01:40
  • Dissapearing
    03:43
  • Gifting
    01:59
  • Partnering and Bartering
    02:10
  • Granting
    01:41

  • Introduction to Funding by Equity
    02:17
  • Founders
    02:16
  • Relatives
    03:38
  • Friends
    02:53
  • Angel Investors
    02:54
  • Equity Partners
    03:10
  • Venture Capital Funds
    04:30

  • Introduction to Funding by Debt
    02:42
  • Short Term Debt
    03:50
  • Long Term Debt
    01:54
  • Calculating Borrowing Capacity
    02:27
  • Convertible Notes
    02:55

  • A Funding Strategy
    02:20
  • Step 1. Define your Passion-based Goal
    01:42
  • Step 2. Outline How Will You Measure Success
    01:31
  • Step 3. Identify Your Team
    02:17
  • Step 4. Define the Resources You Need
    01:55
  • Step 5. State Your Starting Point
    02:04
  • Step 6. Select the Ideal Source of Funding
    02:35
  • Step 7. Prepare a Funding Proposal
    01:43
  • Step 8. Customize the Message
    02:05
  • Step 9. Start Acting (and Stop Thinking)
    03:22
  • Step 10. Close the Deal
    03:04

  • Introduction
    03:09
  • Operations - Calculating Costs
    02:45
  • Market - Creating Opportunities
    03:04
  • Market - Discovering Opportunities
    03:18
  • You - Passion, Knowledge, and Purpose
    04:01
  • Your Team - From Dreams to Goals
    03:06
  • Calculating Funding Needs
    02:52

Instructor

Alicia Castillo Holley
Investor, Entrepreneur, Author
Alicia Castillo Holley
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 18 Reviews
  • 3,487 Students
  • 5 Courses

I am an international expert in creating wealth from innovations and help people live a live with passion, purpose and wealth. This is the leadership of the future, and expands beyond business and entrepreneurial mindsets.

My career started as a young scientist and professor on Agronomy before becoming involved in product development for a Bayer-Shell joint venture and eventually turning into an entrepreneur and angel investor after attending Babson College's MBA program. (I received the Armando Travieso fellowship)

As an entrepreneur, I have started nine companies -successfully exiting from five of them- and two non-for-profit. I have also failer miserably in two ocassions. One of my biggest accomplishments was the pivotal role I played in the Development for the Entrepreneurial Curriculum and the Venture Capital Industry in Chile, where I lived between 1996 and 2002.

I have also consulted, mentored, or coached hundreds of entrepreneurs worldwide. An avid traveler, I have lived in the US (Chautuaqua, Boston, Houston, and Silicon Valley); Australia, Denmark, Chile, Switzerland, and Venezuela; and visited over 100 countries.

I have also served as a panel member of several international business plan competitions, including WRI, Endeavor, Babson College, and Western Australia's Inventor of the Year. And I enjoy being an active academic researcher and angel investor. I am one of the few female members of the prestigious Sand Hill Angels in Silicon Valley.

Philanthropically, I support organizations that foster education, entrepreneurship and domestic harmony.

She have an Engineering and Master of Science degree from Universidad Central de Venezuela, a Master of Business Administration from Babson College, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Western Australia... and I speak English, Spanish, some German, Italian, French, Portuguese, and Arabic... and few words in Korean that my South Korean daughter-in-law has taught me.

A bit more about me can be found on my personal web.

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