Once you’ve identified the type of investors that are right for your business, learn the methods to establish a relationship with investors, what you need to include in your deck/business plan, and what to expect during the diligence process. Learn practical techniques for courting and closing investors. This is the second part of a three part series. Part one covered identifying the right type of investors for your business and stage and part three will cover the post investment process. All three courses are great on their own, and even better when taken together. They’re fun, fast-paced, and an engaging mix of lecture, hands-on exercises, and discussion. Your instructor, Josh Maher, will give you practical takeaways and concepts that you can start using immediately.

You’ll Learn How To:

· Finding and building a relationship with the right investors

· What needs to be in your deck, pitch, and business plan

· Understand the diligence process

· Closing investors

Target Audience

· High growth tech founders who want to thoughtfully prepare for raising capital.

· Entrepreneurs who’re raising their first or second round of financing.

· Founding teams (CEO, CTO, and so on) who’ll inevitably be a part of the fundraising process.

Workshop Schedule:

· Introduction

· Strategies for finding investors

· The deck (exercises)

· Diligence

· Closing investors

Meet Your Instructor:

Josh Maher is the author of Startup Wealth: How the Best Angel Investors Make Money in Startups. Startup Wealth delivers engaging interviews with early-stage investors in Google, Invisalign, ZipCar, Uber, Twilio, Localytics, and other successful and not so successful companies. You can learn more about the book and get additional material on the Startup Wealth website.

He's a passionate supporter of the Seattle startup community, President of Seattle Angel, a non-profit focused on education at the intersection of startups and angel investing. Seattle Angel launched the highly successful Seattle Angel Conference and recently launched the Seattle Angel Fund. Josh is an advisor to Flight.vc, the largest network of AngelList syndicates and is an angel investor himself. He has been teaching and advising startups since 2007 and loves to work with entrepreneurs with big ideas and deep customer engagement.

Optional material:

· Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

· Startup Seed Funding for the Rest of Us: How to Raise $1 Million for Your Startup - Even Outside of Silicon Valley

· Startup Wealth: How the Best Angel Investors Make Money in Startups