Do You Want to Accelerate Your
"Time-to-Funding?
Register now for this structured,
step-by-step course conducted online by a seasoned venture capitalist!
Dear Entrepreneur:
Even in this tough economy, you can raise money for a strong business
idea if you know how. And right now, there is probably more capital
waiting for a great opportunity than ever before.
We can help you find the cash you need with our new Venture Capital
Secrets online e-course, a structured, step-by-step
course conducted online by a seasoned venture capitalist!
Regardless of market conditions, there is still VENTURE CAPITAL and
ANGEL money available (on October 1, 2002 over $150 million was released
by VC's)! You just have to know where to look, understand what investors
are willing to invest in, and provide the documentation they need in
order to make decisions.
For the first time, William F. McCready, Founder and CEO of Venture
Planning Associates, Inc., is offering an online course to accelerate
the learning process for entrepreneurs looking for funding, whether
it's for seed and startup capital, business expansion or refinancing.
Plus, each student will receive
a one-year subscription to a Venture Capital Database with all contact
information including email address valued at $195.
We guarantee that if you take this course and follow the guidelines
outlined in these nine modules, you will create everything you need:
your business plan, marketing plan, financing plan and road show, and
you will increase your chances of obtaining funding for your venture
by 100%!
Details
- Eight-week e-course, beginning anytime is conducted by email, with
a one-hour weekly phone consultation. Limited to 20 people.
- Personal Mentoring to follow the step-by-step process business plan,
marketing plan, financing plan and road show (VC presentations).
- Course materials developed by Venture Planning Associates, Inc.,
and used in MBA classes in selected universities around the world.
Who Should Take This Course
- Entrepreneurs who are serious about obtaining funding for their
ventures.
- Finance professionals (CPAs) and consultants who want to be able
to help their clients who are entrepreneurs.
- Corporate executives with large corporations who would like to become
entrepreneurs, and want to accelerate the learning process.
What we are offering you today
is a way to have a 100% increase in your ability to be funded and an
advantage over thousands of other entrepreneurs trying to raise funds!
Three Guarantees
- Guarantee #1: After this course you will know the secrets
to raising money for any venture. The principles are timeless and
invaluable; many of the things covered in this class took years and
tens of thousands of dollars to learn.
- Guarantee #2: You will work hard to complete the course,
but we will be with you at every step with advice and support. You
will have a weekly one-hour phone consultation as well as e-mail reviews
of all the steps in the process.
- Guarantee #3: This course is not theory, laced with MBA
"techno speak, gobbledygook or mumbo jumbo" from people
who have never owned a business or made payroll. The course covers
what works and you will learn why it works from Street Smart Entrepreneurs
who have been on both the upside and downside of business financial
cycles.
About Us
We have been in the private funding and venture
capital business for more than 12 years. We were founding directors
of the Hawaii Venture Capital Association, a General Partner in the
Hawaii Venture Fund, and raised millions of dollars for our clients.
In addition, we have served as CEO, COO and CFO of many of the companies
we have invested in.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Course will be eight weeks long and will consist of the following:
1. A pre-business plan venture planning session.
You will get step-by-step instructions on how to decide
on a business and revenue model, pick the optimum business structure,
and assemble your management team to focus on funding. We start from
the end result you are seeking and work backward down the timeline to
develop a step-by-step plan to implement a profitable strategy.
2. Developing your business plan for funding
sources.
Here we have a 20 page check list on all the questions
we have ever seen asked or covered in the many funding projects we have
undertaken. All the work done in the first week will now be assembled
into all the various venture capital documentation you will need to
fully realize the funding of your business.
3. 28 Alternative methods to fund your business.
Only a very few companies are candidates for true venture
capital funding! We will cover 28 additional methods for raising funds
as well as strategies to approach and close these sources, when to use
them, how to minimize your equity exposure and how to negotiate additional
capital support when you need it.
4. 10 innovative ways to have investors chasing
you with money for your project, plus the six questions you need to
answer.
There are many unique ways to structure your deal for
investors depending on your ultimate goal (cash flow, acquisition, equity
retention, exit strategy, investor buyout, off balance sheet guarantees,
etc.) Included: the basic elements of a good deal, a chart of investment
returns and required rate of returns, how to find investors on the web
or in your community, how to avoid scams and shams, samples of staged
investment plans, and staged founders stock allocations.
5. Understanding how to value your business.
You will discover with all the major valuation methods,
discount factors, investment returns and venture capital valuation techniques
used by the professionals. We will also include a valuation spreadsheet
that you can integrate with your business plan that will show you how
to value Venture Capital deals with pre and post investment values,
calculate stock offer percentages, stock dilution models for various
investment rounds and how to assign risk factors for the First Chicago
Venture Valuation Method.
6. Dealing with banks and how to arrange any
type of debt financing.
This section covers how to get a loan when you really
need one, and includes banking checklists, evaluation criteria, and
how to establish good commercial credit. Plus, as a bonus, this section
covers a completed financial summaries and ratio analyses used by banks
to determine your "lendability". If your business is already
operating, do you know how banks look at your financials? And, do you
know how to get them to literally throw money at you? Answers and insights
from two of the country's top bankers are covered in depth. For operating
businesses we will discuss a communications audit for your existing
operations that will instantly tell you what areas of your business
need attention.
7. How to reach Private Angel Investors right
in your own area.
This section shows you a complete profile of "Angel"
investors: where to find them, how they invest, what they want and investment
amounts you can normally expect. It also covers how professional investors
and venture capital firms evaluate your deal, and why. You also receive
a special case study of a "Home Run Company" and how they
did it. Plus, how to identify, choose and compensate a finder or broker
using the Lehman Formula.
Even if you don't know anyone now who has money to invest,
did you know that within a week you will develop a list of 20 or more
qualified investors by following three easy steps? Once you have the
list, how will you identify and approach investors and in what order?
Do you know where to find private investors or partners who will introduce
you to the right Venture Capital Funds?
8. Private Placements, Reg D Offerings and
other DPO Strategies.
This special section will cover the basics for developing
a Private Placement Memorandum and help you understand why a business
plan alone is not the proper legal vehicle to raise money. We will proceed
with the integration of your business plan into a private placement,
how to develop the capital structure and develop various methods of
financing using the PPM.
9. How to deal with Venture Capital Companies.
Here we will develop the strategies and methods used
to get an audience with a Venture Capital Fund. You will learn what
to expect, how to play the game, what not to do or say, how to field
the Term Sheet (we include a sample term sheet and discuss it). Most
importantly, you will learn how avoid onerous conditions; cram downs,
death spirals and other nasty side effects of various term sheets.
Here are the templates and checklists
included with this course.
- An Executive Summary
that gets results and requests for the full business plan and
your Reg D Offering.
- Integrated Financial Plan in Excel Format,
BizPlan.xls
This is a fully integrated financial plan with no locked cells and
no macros. It is sophisticated and can be tailored to your specific
needs. Excel integrated financial spreadsheet adapted for venture
capitalists (prior consulting fee charged to others $6,800).
- Power Point #1, "Presentation to Investors.ppt".
This is an outline of what your basic plan should include and gives
you guidelines for presenting your plan (this plan raised $4 million).
- Power Point #2 "Web Business Plan.ppt".
A good outline for your completed business plan. This plan is longer
than you would ordinarily use in a funding presentation, and can be
used in a second presentation for more in-depth review of your business.
For a business plan that raised $6 million and launched two successful
web businesses (prior consulting fee charged to others $5,000).
- Power Point # 3 & 4 Capabilities and
Market Opportunities.ppt. Give you ideas on how to really
target your market, unique selling position and the true business
opportunity.
- A valuation calculation plan,
Valuation.xls, is included to allow you to utilize numerous scenarios
for valuing your business. This includes the ability to calculate
the First Chicago Valuation, Conventional, and Discounted Cash Flow
models. Excel valuation spreadsheet that helps you determine how to
minimize the equity to give up for the cash you are seeking (prior
consulting fee charged to others $3,800).
- The capitalization plans, CapPlan1.xls
and StockPlan.xls, include methods of calculating the capitalization
structure of your business and how to figure stock programs for underpaid
executives and financial guarantees. Each plan has its own explanatory
notes.
- If you would like assistance with the preparation of your Reg D
documents following the class, we can arrange for that assistance
for an additional fee of $875 (compared to the normal $5-10,000)
- A first hand account of "How we bought
a $2.2 million business with only $1,000". This blow-by-blow
account of what happened along the way and how we raised funds, fought
off disaster, and turned a $1 million plus profit on an all cash sale.
Nothing is held back and everything we did is here.
Remember, what we are offering
you today is a way to have a 100%
increase in your ability to be funded and an advantage over
thousands of other entrepreneurs trying to raise funds!
This is not an exaggeration. Check our web site www.ventureplan.com
for information on the principals, projects and background on our approach
to venture capital and alternative financing. We have been quoted in
Inc. Magazine, Fortune, Smart Money, Forbes, Wall Street Reporter, Home
Office Computing, and numerous other national publications. Our materials
have been purchased and used by entrepreneurs, universities, law firms,
accounting firms and individuals from 102 countries.
This is a no nonsense offer!
This is the first time we have ever offered a direct mentoring class
online.
Take this class and you WILL see results---and results you can take
to the bank, an investor or a Venture Capital firm!
We are looking for 20 people that want this 8-week program (*you
can take as long as you want, but you need the money, so get why not
get hot on the trail of funding) . Keep in mind that this e-class
is done entirely by e-mail (plus the one hour per week phone consultation).
You'll also get our coaching by email. This will be for your convenience
as well as ours.
You won't have to sit on conference calls or drive to seminars. You'll
receive the lessons by email, do the work as your schedule permits,
answer questions by email, and get feedback by email. It's quick and
easy.
The e-class begins on your schedule! You will need at least eight hours
to review each lesson and do your work, all of it based on your own
schedule. If you can't commit to at least that, don't sign-up!
How To Register
If you hired me to give you this service in your office or your home,
you'd pay $5,000 a day. Hiring other consulting firms to assist you
with all these areas could run to over $50,000.
Since we are not paying any affiliate fees or sales commissions --
We can pass along our savings in marketing costs to you. You can register
for the eight-week program for $4,500.
Finally, let me leave you with this one thought: If you keep doing
what you are doing, will you be ready to raise money or just be at the
same point in eight weeks?
Register for this powerful Venture Capital Coaching e-course and get
the financing advantage you know you want---guaranteed.
TO REGISTER:
By phone, call 1.888.404.1212
I look forward to helping you
raise the capital for your project!
Sincerely,
William F. (Bill) McCready, CEO
PS - We've worked with hundreds of companies in many stages of development.
Most have not taken the time to consider all the issues necessary before
approaching funding sources and consequently fail to raise funds. Don't
be like them. Register for this 8-week e-class and watch your profits
soar.
You can take action right now and get the
results you want OR you can stay on your current course. You may be
fine. But couldn't you be better, even 100% better? Write me and let's
discuss your needs.
Still have questions? Write
us and we'll convince you.
Just send your question to us at capital@ventureplan.com
Want
to do it all yourself? Check our the Venture
Map to Venture Capital or Private Financing.
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