How to Raise Pre-Seed/Seed Startup Funds - Presented by Silicon Valley SBDC

Less than 1% of startup pitches result in funding. While most entrepreneurs over-emphasize pitch decks, smart founders focus on fundability. Successful founders follow a proven five-step process to efficiently raise Pre-seed and Seed funds for their early-stage startup. This class dives into important keys to raise early-stage funds, including:

1. Fundability
2. Due diligence and legal pitfalls
3. Financial projections and models
4. Funding strategy
5. Inflection points and funding milestones
6. Idea validation
7. Traction metrics
8. Pitch effectiveness and tracking
9. Negotiating term sheets

Attendees will learn the Prepare, Plan, Execute, Sell, and Close (PPESC) process to effectively build a fundable startup and then close Pre-Seed and Seed funding.

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Fundable Startups provides coaching, training, and tools that helps founders build healthy, fundable companies. As a published author and a CEO, CTO or Tech VP of 5 startups with 3 exits, Sam Wong leads Fundable Startups in creating premium, deep-dive, visual training and tools to help founders with great execution.

Venture Validator predicts product / market fit by validating startup ideas. We've done validation surveys for over 100 different entrepreneurs, providing important insights on project features, customer objections, and offer pricing.

Sam recently spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt on the topic of "Startup Exits: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". Sam also had an interview published in Fortune Magazine on surviving the economic downturn.

Silicon Valley SBDC is committed to entrepreneur and startups success, providing at no-cost business advisings and networking to the Silicon Valley Investors.