Raising Money--Crowdfunding, Angels and Other Sources- 06/23/2021 - C0010 

They fill the gap in start-up financing between "friends and family" who provide seed funding, and formal venture capital. Learn about fundraising from seasoned angel investors: how you pitch your ideas, determine evaluation, prepare due diligence and negotiate terms.

 This interactive seminar will provide you with the tools to understand and effectively convince the right funders for your business.

You'll learn:

• How crowdfunding works
• How to find and select the angels
• Developing your pitch
• Determining valuation (usually lots of questions on this topic)
• Preparing for due diligence
• Negotiating the term

Come prepared to tell your story:

• how funding will give you the tools to reach your goals
• why your business is better than your competition.

About the Workshop Leader: Don Weil is a SCORE SF Mentor, and graduate of the US Naval Academy and Harvard Business School. Before retiring, he owned and ran four foundries, producing aluminum castings mainly for high tech and medical industries. He also owned and ran a metals distribution center, a plumbing supply business and started a small engineering company. After retiring, he invested in and then ran a company that tows cars for the city of San Francisco.

All SCORE workshops and services are provided on a nondiscriminatory basis. All opinions, conclusions, and/or recommendations expressed in workshops are those of the presenters and do not necessarily reflect the views of SCORE or the SBA. SCORE is funded [in part] through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.