Venture Capital 102: Financial Valuations for Startups & Entrepreneurs

Total Workshop Time: 3 hours (approximate)

This workshop will introduce you to financial valuations specifically tailored for startups. First time Entrepreneurs and Founders of startups find it hard to estimate their valuations. This results in unsuccessful fundraising efforts or problems post funding. Learn the most common valuation techniques used by Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists when they fund startups. Also, some useful hacks and tricks!

• Introduction

• Art Not Science: Introduction to Financial valuations (15 min)

• Types of valuations (15 min)
• Latest trends in Startup valuations (30 min)
• Documents required for valuations (15 min)
• Most common Startup valuation techniques along with examples  (60 min)
• BREAK (15 min)
• Most common Startup valuation techniques along with examples (Continued)  (60 min)
• Tricks: Hacks, Do?s & Don?t (30 min)
• Math Corner: Problem Set (45 min)
• Take Home Harvard Business Case Study

 TARGET AUDIENCE

1. First time Entrepreneurs

2. Startup Founders 

3. Students

4. Anybody interested in Startups & Entrepreneurship

 ABOUT THE WORKSHOP FACILITATOR

 Pradeep is the Founder & CEO @ Fillip (http://www.fillipinc.com/), a Mentor @ NUMA Bangalore ( A Paris based Startup Accelerator ? http://numabengaluru.com/) & an Events Manager @ Startup Pirates Bangalore (A Portugal based Pre-Accelerator ?http://www.startuppirates.org/). He is deeply passionate about Entrepreneurship & the Startup craze caught him at very young age.

Prior to this, he worked as a Management Consultant at US Government Agencies like Client Network Services Inc., (CNSI)/US Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Washington DC, & short term gigs @ innovative startups like ZoomCars (Bangalore), Plutora (Australia), & G2G (Bangalore). He is a Computer Science graduate from the State University of New York (SUNY), Binghamton.

"Valuation is an art, not a science? ~ Mohandas Pai

Please Note: This Workshop will be useful for Entrepreneurs or Startup owners who are at idea, pre-seed, seed, Series AA, & Series A stage of fundraising.