Are you a first-time founder? Do you have a business idea but you don’t know where to start? Want to change the world but need help with the first step?
Startup School is the place to start!
Startup School is a series of of live interactive workshops with entrepreneurial experts who will teach you how to test your assumptions, where to find your first customers, how to build your MVP, where to look for finance and funding, and what steps to take next.
You can find all the events in this series here.
If you join six of the workshops, you’ll receive a LinkedIn certificate of programme completion from LSE.
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To help you build a simple but effective fundraising strategy, in this session we will explain the types of capital available for for-profit companies and break down how early-stage venture capital works.
This session will cover:
- How to know what type of capital is right for you and your business
- How equity investment works (and the difference between angels and venture capital)
- How grant funding and other types of capital work
- How to build a simple but effective fundraising strategy
- How to approach the fundraising lifecycle, including timing, building and converting a fundraising pipeline
Hattie is the co-founder of IfWeRaise, on a mission to connect underserved founders with the knowledge and network they need to get fairer access to capital. Alongside building IfWeraise, Hattie is a coach and trainer for accelerators, universities and a few brave corporates, and the host of the Not My First Guess Podcast. She's worked with thousands of founders, including supporting programmes like the UN’s Maritime SDG Accelerator, Amazon’s Sustainability Accelerator, and Hatch through her entrepreneurship education company GuessWorks.
