The Fundable Startup
#1 Amazon Best SellerWant to raise money for your startup?
Few entrepreneurs building high potential companies know how to make their startups appealing to investors. Drawing on his experience on both sides of the table, Fred M. Haney has produced a masterful guide to creating fundable startups. If you want to improve your odds of raising money, read this book before you launch an equity crowdfunding campaign or talk to angel investors or venture capitalists.
What’s in it for your startup?
In The Fundable Startup, Fred M. Haney, an experienced VC, angel investor and company founder, explains startup strategies that will help you to:
- Build a “virtual team“
- Understand the thinking of investors
- Create initial value in a product or prototype
- Recruit management that will help you raise capital
- Obtain risk-reducing market traction
Bonus: 8 personal interviews with executives and entrepreneurs that will change your mindset about managing a startup!
The Fundable Startup
In this presentation (to the Mirage Institute), Fred summarizes some of the most important messages of The Fundable Startup. He explains why his experience in venture capital, angel investing, corporate business development, and co-founding six companies gives him a unique perspective on how to build successful startup companies. One of the important premises of the book is that investors are confronted with a myriad of attractive investment opportunities, which means that startups must compete with other startups to obtain capital. They need both a fundable idea and a fundable management team. And they must show that they know how to manage the risk of a startup effectively. Fred also talks about Steve Jobs’ law and the impact it had in helping him decide to write this book. This video contains approximately 45 minutes of slide presentation followed by 25 minutes of Q&A.
In this video Fred lists some of the topics covered in The Fundable Startup, including,
- Is Steve Jobs’ law valid?
- What does it mean that startups compete for capital?
- What is the correct balance in a startup between entrepreneurship and management?”
Fred also explains why he felt he was more qualified than any other venture capitalist, angel investor, or company founder to write this book.
$M Invested Millions of dollars in capital raised by Fred’s companies
Startups that Monday Club assisted
Venture Capital investments Fred approved
Years Of Experience
Getting a Startup Funded
What does it take to get a startup funded?
What are investors looking for?
What kind of an idea is fundable?
What kind of management team is required for funding?
How can a startup maximize its chances of getting funding?”
How to write a winning startup investor pitch deck
What are investors looking for?
What is the real question?
What are the most important issues to investors?
What are the mistakes startups make?
What are the keys to building a successful pitch deck?
How to Obtain Funding as a Startup
In this one-hour interview with JJ Richa, of Pismo ventures, Fred discusses important topics from his book, The Fundable Startup, including:
- How come venture capitalist only invest in one percent of startups?
- What should a startup valuation be?
- How do you solve the chicken and egg problem of not being able to get a CEO without money and not being able to get money without a CEO?
- What areas do VCs target?
- Do VCs target industrial startup companies?
- What are the qualities of a winning pitch deck?
- Startups have to figure out how to compete with the other startups for capital.