If you are looking for a job in a Venture Capital, an accelerator, an incubator, a corporate venture, a crowdfunding, or a bank with a department specialized in innovative technological startups, this program will allow you to acquire the necessary knowledge through an award-winning “learning by doing” method.

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Participation of relevant agents in the sector

Together with the input of successful entrepreneurs and expert investors, it explores all the facets - good and bad - of a profession that is becoming increasingly dynamic and on which the future of wealth creation in companies will depend to a large extent. Throughout the different sessions, we will have the participation of entrepreneurs, Business Angels and investment analysts with extensive experience and recognition in the ecosystem. Over the next few days we will reveal who the invited experts will be!

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Adapted Pricing

We have divided the course content into 3 different themes: - Theme 1: The best kept secrets. What to do and how to innovate?- Theme 2: Finances well understood. The Language of Business-Theme 3: From Said to Done... How to Raise Capital?

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‍If you see that the 8 sessions of the program don't suit your needs, don't worry! , you can choose the topic that interests you the most and attend the sessions that suit you best. If you are left wanting more, you can discuss the rest of the topics in future editions of Intelectium College.

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New dates

Due to the high demand to postpone the start of the program for a few weeks, we have heard from you: Now you have time to register until 10/01/2022. Start the year off on the right foot and don't miss the opportunity to participate in the Startup Fundraising Program and live first-hand a radical and realistic experience, where there will be no angle left to analyze.

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‍The first session will take place on Wednesday, January 12, 2022, and will be an introductory class that will allow attendees to lay the foundations and reflect on their business ideas and the keys to success. The remaining seven sessions of the Program will take place weekly, every Thursday at 6:00 p.m. The Program will end on Thursday, March 3rd.

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Theme 1: The best kept secrets. What to do and how to innovate?

Session I: What to do

• Objective: Identifying the drivers of a business's financial success as a first step in choosing the potentially most promising area to undertake. Learn to manage the expectations we have as entrepreneurs. Internalize the concept that time is the only resource that we cannot recover and adequately assess how this impacts our lives. Through five key questions that every entrepreneur has to ask himself and almost none of them ask himself, we will reflect on truly important concepts that will help us to start our projects on the right foot, both for entrepreneurs and aspiring analysts in the venture capital industry.
• Case Study: Analysis of the financial statements of 2 startups with different business models and evaluation of their potential as a business (cash generation capacity/capital efficiency) and the resulting derivatives in different scenarios (ease of raising capital, ease of possible exit, valuation).

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Session II: How to get the most out of the entrepreneurial and investment ecosystem

• Objective: Understand how the entrepreneurial and investment ecosystem is structured in different geographies, who are its main actors, how they make money, what are the dynamics that derive from all of this and - in this context - and depending on their stage of development and their peculiarities, how a startup can make the most of this ecosystem.‍
• Case Study: Analysis of 3 mini-cases that have received different Term Sheets. Evaluation of the appropriateness of accepting one or another TS.

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Session III: Cutting to the chase: How to truly innovate

• Objective: To know how the strategic process that is launched spontaneously in companies works and is interrelated and how to take advantage of them, with the right methodologies, to bring real and effective innovations to the market based on what - truly and not figuratively - customers need, and therefore value.
• ‍Case Study: Definition of a new concept of convenience store. Analysis of information collected from different internal and external sources (focus groups, ticket counting, competition, etc.), determination of customer job-to-be-done and application of outcome-driven-innovation to define an innovative business concept.

Theme 2: Finance well understood... the language of business

Session IV: How to prepare a good Business Plan through a Professional Financial Model

• Objective: Learn to develop solid and pragmatic financial models that are a faithful representation of our startup. Learn to understand and use financial models as simulation tools for evaluating different business models and strategies. Familiarize yourself with Intelectium Templates of financial models for different Business Models, including SaaS Subscription Model, Transactional Revenue Model, Chanel Sales Model and others.
• ‍Case Study: Application of the Intelectium Template to a SaaS startup. Evaluation of the results provided by income statements. Cohort analysis. LTV calculation using future projection formulas. Calculation of the LTV/CAC ratio and evaluation of the result.

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Session V: How to structure the capital of a startup and how to define the best format of the round

• Objective: Understand the principles of equity distribution that must govern founders to give long-term strength to the startup. Know the techniques and tools to avoid excessive dilution of founders. Learn about equity recovery mechanisms for entrepreneurs.
• ‍Case Study: Analysis of two mino-cases. Evaluation of the TS and analysis of banking and public leverage opportunities.

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Session VI: How to define and justify the valuation of a startup

• Objective: Know and learn how to use the different valuation methods especially used in the environment of technological startups. Master the “jargon” of investors. Understand how to trace scenarios of possible evolution of equity over the life of the startup to understand the impact of dilution on entrepreneurs and investors.
• ‍Case Study: Evaluation of a very early-seed startup using different methods. Evaluation of a late-seed startup by different methods.

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Theme 3: From Said to Done... How to Raise Capital

Session VII: How to identify the most suitable investor for a startup and how to design and make the best Pitch

• Objective: Build on the concepts studied in Session 2 and learn to “match” between the startup's development stage and the ideal type of investor. Understand what each type of investor finances, what their cognitive biases are, what messages to reach them with and how to convince them to invest in your startup.
• ‍Case Study: Analysis of 3 mini-cases. Evaluating Investors' Decks and identifying areas for improvement.

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Session VIII: How to define and negotiate the best Partner Agreement

• Objective: Know and master the “jargon” of investors and specialized lawyers. Understand the differences between partner agreements with Business Angels vs. VCs. Learn the implications of each key clause and know which are the truly important ones. Understand which clauses are non-negotiable for a VC and how to qualify them to reduce their negative impact, or in other words, how to better negotiate with investors and how to refute their arguments.‍
• Case Study: Evaluation of three partner pacts: 1) Business Angels, 2) national VCs and 3) international VCs.

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How to enroll in Intelectium College?

You can enroll in Intelectium College directly through our forms. If you prefer, you can contact us through the following email: comunicacion@intelectium.com