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Startup Founder Essentials — Course 10: Funding Strategy and Investor Readiness
How to judge a funding need, compare sources and terms, prepare credible evidence, and build a funding strategy with contingencies.
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By Telari Labs
Startup Founder EssentialsCourse 10 of 12
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Lesson list
- The decision to seek fundingConnecting the decision to seek funding to a business objective, available resources, evidence and founder constraints.
- Amount, timing and milestonesCalculating a simple dated funding gap and distinguishing headline funding from usable proceeds.
- Founder, customer and grant fundingComparing sources that differ in cash timing, permitted use, personal exposure and delivery obligations.
- Debt and working-capital financeComparing specified borrowing offers using payment dates, total cash cost and exposure.
- Equity routes and investor fitComparing investor relationships with the venture's needs and the founder's objectives.
- Readiness and evidence gapsSeparating supported claims from assumptions and prioritising preparation for a particular funding discussion.
- Valuation, ownership and dilutionCalculating a simple priced round and recognising how share counts and defined denominators affect ownership.
- Convertible notes and SAFEsUnderstanding conditional future-equity arrangements and calculating one fully specified note conversion.
- Investment terms and economic outcomesComparing simple preference and participation outcomes and recognising rights that can affect later dilution.
- Control, rights and commitmentsDistinguishing economic ownership from decision authority and interpreting specified investment commitments.
- A coherent investment narrativeConnecting supported business claims, assumptions and a dated funding request in a clear account.
- Managing the fundraising processPrioritising funding discussions while protecting operating capacity and distinguishing progress from available cash.
- Due diligence and information sharingReconciling a small evidence pack and handling unresolved records and information requests proportionately.
- A funding strategy with contingenciesCombining the course into a dated, bounded funding decision with fallback conditions and post-funding commitments.
- Funding understanding diagnosticOptional diagnostic using short supplied cases to identify areas for further practice.
- Applied funding reasoning diagnosticOptional diagnostic using short supplied cases to identify areas for further practice.