Getting Financing for Your Tech Startup (Skillshare)

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Getting Financing for Your Tech Startup (Skillshare)

In the following classes you will learn how to prepare the information you need to make yourself organized and be able to present to potential investors as well as where to go to find those investors. You will learn how other entrepreneurs are able to get the money they need to get their businesses started so you can too.

For this class, pay close attention to videos 3, 4 and 5. They will teach you how to get focused on your clients and how to prepare the information you need for your business plan to present to serious investors.
For the class project you will need to follow the instruction in those videos to create your own...

  1. Ideal Client
  2. MVP (Minimum Viable Product)
  3. First year budget

You will prepare these documents as outlined in the videos and then submit them here in the comments section for review. I will help you fine tune your Ideal Client, MVP and your Budget so that you can organize that information and use it to wow investors and get the financing you need to start your dream business.

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