What is a “how to attract investors” MasterClass and how is it organised?

A “how to attract investors” MasterClass is a one or two day workshop on how to successfully obtain financing. During the class we will go through: how to stay in the game, thus how to avoid the investors’ dustbin. Until now more than 60 MasterClasses have been successfully conducted in more than 15 countries. Why not also organize a Master Class in your own local environment.

It is now possile to arrange Master Classes interactive "on-line" with up to 10 participants. The Master Class is conducted in an interactive mode using "state of the art" Live on-line teaching software.

Live on-line training or coaching by experienced advisors

• Update or sharpen your skills in ”how to attract investors”
  
  Book with your partners live on-line training sessions ( modules of 1 – 4 hours available)
• Personalised live- online coaching on business plans and business models
  
  Book one or more hours direct live on-line coaching session
• Live on-line feed back on your ”elevator pitch” before you present to investors
  
  Test your ”elevator pitch” live on-line and get our feed back and comments
• Discuss with us the feed back from the SAT – pro or SAT-light test.
  
  Send us the SAT-feed back file and book a feed back session

All you need is a computer, a web camera, a microphone & access to broadband internet.

For information about price, terms & conditions contact :
Uffe Bundgaard-Jorgensen at ubj@gate2growth.com or Mobile: +45 40521645

The contents for each MasterClass is tailored to the individual organiser’s need allowing for specific sector relevant information to be presented.

The structure and basic contents is as follows:

• Screening for investors; - What are investors interested to invest in?
• Investor screening of business plans; - How does an investor read a business plan?
• Selection; - We will look at the most common pitfalls the entrepreneur encounters.
• Negotiating and financing; - What to look for when entering the negotiation phase.
• Investors as co-owners; - We look at the relationship with investors as co-owners.

What are the components of a MasterClass:
The award winning self assessment tool SAT-Pro is used as the underlying structure for a Master Class, but is also used to check that all the information an investor requires is readily available in a business plan. The SAT-Pro test includes a budgetary module that enables the participant of the MasterClass to check how their investment proposal will look through the eyes of an investor.

This and other tools provide the structure and foundation for the discussions and breakout sessions during the Master Class.
A MasterClass is always tailored to the participants needs.
The SAT-Pro and SAT-Competence test are available in 12 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Latvian, Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Slovenian and Polish.

The MasterClass is also available on-line for the participants to revisit the lectures at their convenience. Another popular feature of MasterClass is our web based video telephone coaching follow up session. This “after class coaching” solves the problem which we are all too well acquainted with: the questions we forgot to ask while we were at the class.

A MasterClass is organised together with a local partner, typically a university, an association, an incubator or an entrepreneurship centre. As part of the planning of a Master Class we discuss the composition of participants, Entrepreneurs or Advisors and Innovation Professionals? – Or a combination of the two.

Together we also determine if it is to be a one day class or a two day class. The two day class is the most popular because it allows for better individual coaching of the participants.
We have conducted more than 60 MasterClasses in 15 different countries. It is usually held in English sometimes assisted by an interpreter translating into the local language.

Please contact us for further information about how to organise a MasterClass close to you.
Please contact us on ubj@gate2growth.com or on telephone +45 39 307 307 or +45 40 521 645

Quotes from previous participants

..Thank you for the very useful tips and advice. This seminar has definitely helped us a lot and after the small personal consultation, it is now clearer to us how to continue pursuing our goals. …

..Last year I presented our business plan to a board of industry experts and although I convinced all 10 of them in the viability, profitability of the venture, I didn’t learn 1/10th of what I learned today!.

...It was a great experience – and I learned a lot, also about the strength and weaknesses of my technology. I think that I have to revise my business model. It is not my technology but our flexibility to produce in small series and develop flexible designs which is the strength of our business concept.

...The one hour coaching session after the Master Class really gave a lot of input as to how completely to rewrite my business plan and how to present it to investors.