Mastering Entrepreneurship
COURSE OVERVIEW
1. Innovation Management
- Perfect Pitch
- Document Suite
- Landscape of Funding
- Current economic climate
- Global Funding Landscape
2. Innovation Pathway Developing a tactical roadmap
- Protecting your intellectual property Overdevelopment
- Defining clinical pathways CE|UKCA Marking
- Presenting technology
- Development of Technical White Paper
3. The Business Plan
- Audience “who are you writing for?”
- What’s changed. “Information age”
- Fact checking “don’t get caught out”
- Content “it’s not war and peace”
- What does the investor want to hear
- Defining content
4. Funding
- Types of Funding “it’s not always mean grants”
- Maintaining a tactical road map
- Changing landscape of Investment capital
- Innovative Funding Strategies
- Stages of Funding
- How much “don’t run out”
- Valuation
- Protecting the founders from shareholder agreements
5. Financial Projections
- Unit Economic Model
- Cash flow vs P&L
- Alternative cash flow finance
- Defining market access and costs of delivery
- Managing scale
6. Perfect Pitch Training
- 1-minute Introduction 3-minute Wonder
- 5-minute Perfection
- 10-minute Death by PowerPoint
7. Post Funding
- 90 plan
- Hiring
- Investor relations Mini projects Outsourcing and IP
MENTORS
Christian Kumar
Christian has a career spanning over 30 years in corporate finance, investment banking and wealth management. He has created a deployment model that allows rapid commercialisation of ideas, a method of valuation and funding to motivate the stakeholders whilst minimizing risks to the investors by mentoring companies with a three to five years’ vision of strategic growth. Christian is supported by a highly skilled international advisory team drawn from different disciplines that contributes to strategy and manages key partnerships.