| Event Name: | How to bootstrap a startup |
| Description: | How do you finance a startup when you cannot get an investor or banks interested?
Finding the finance you need for your enterprise can be like learning to play chess for the first time - you have to know the moves before you understand how to win. When you know how the game is played financing your business is quicker and far cheaper.
How do you start a business with little or no cash?
What is bootstapping? How do you go about bootstrapping? What are the common methods? Then when is the right time to approach investors and banks. If at all? How do you make sure potential investors take note of your business plan? What are the common errors?
Find out at this exclusive workshop:
•What is "bootstrapping"?
•Six bootstrapping methods
•What is the most powerful bootstrapping method for a start-up?
•How do you market your business with little or no cash?
•What free or effective marketing tools can you use?
•How to adjust your business model for maximum impact
•How to define your niche market better and reduce risk
•Sources of bootstrap financing
•Building a high value management team without the overhead
•When is the right time to go for angel investment
•Why full business plans are not important as you think
•How to create an executive summary that gets noticed
•How to get your deal seen by investors
•A DIY approach to finding a business angel |
| Type of Event: | Entrepreneurs Events - Venture Capital |
| Event Agenda: | Expert speakers
Paul Grant founder of The Funding Game knows what it’s like to be on both sides of the funding fence. As an entrepreneur he raised funds for his own business, securing capital from business angels, bankers, family and friends, and even a government grant.
After seven years of trading he exited his business in 2003 and was invited to join a private equity company, Capital Partners, eventually heading up the business angel division. Here he had access to nearly 5,000 angel investors and reviewed more than 1,000 business plans every year.
Who should attend? Ideal for entrepreneurs who have already created a company and are looking for growth capital, or are in the start-up phase and are unsure of where or how to raise the capital to launch
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| Event Location: | The British Library Business & IP Centre |
| Event City: | London |
| Type of Venue: | Library - Book Shop |
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| Directions: | The Business & IP Centre is on the first-floor of the British Library, on the right-hand side of the building, opposite the Social Sciences Reading Room. |
| Event Start Date | 05-Oct-10 |