Who this course is for:

• Founders and entrepreneurs who want to learn how to sell part of their equity to external investors
• Novice investors in venture capital and private equity
• Novice business angels that want to avoid paying too much for early stage companies

What you’ll learn: 

• Understand the valuation methods used by business appraisers, venture capitalists and business angels
• Understand the investors perspective when investing into early-stage companies/startups
• Be able to determine company valuation through various methods (Comparable, Precedent, Berkus, Scorecard, Replacement and Income using business plan projections)
• Understand the main principles of fundraising
• Understand and differentiate between 3 types of investments (equity, debt, hybrid) and their attributes
• Capture the principles of equity dilution through the various rounds of fundraising
• Understand the role of term sheet and shareholder agreement

Requirements: 

• General interest in entrepreneurship and business management
• Being fluent in general financial principles of investing
• General interest in investing and venture capital/private equity methods

If you are an entrepreneur, founder or owner of an early-stage company OR if you are a business angel, venture capitalist or startup investor, this course is for you. 

Learn from an experienced independent board director what the core elements are to valuing early-stage or startup companies, avoiding underselling the company, not knowing exactly how to establish the value of the equity stake being sold.

I have been mentoring many young and novice entrepreneurs over the last decade. This course not only includes my experience as an independent board director where I regularly have to deal with private equity related investment decisions but also consolidates my mentoring observations of early-stage companies since 2010. 

I was privileged to act since 2010 as a mentor at the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce Business Mentoring programme imported from Canada/Quebec. In 2018, I was also a founding member of the University of Luxembourg Venture Mentoring Service.

Amongst the core learnings, we will explore the following topics :

• Company valuation from the founder or owner perspective
• Estimate equity valuation specifically for startups and early stage companies
• Help entrepreneurs avoid undervaluating/underselling company
• Understand various valuation methods for early-stage companies including Market Approach, Income based approach using Discounted Cash Flows and the replacement cost approach
• More specifically, in the Market Approach methods, we will discuss the Berkus Method, Precedent Transaction Method (PTM), Comparable Transaction Method (CTM) and the scorecard valuation method
• Understand the role of term sheet and shareholder agreement
• Understand and differentiate between 3 types of investments

Thank you for your interest in this training and I hope you will enjoy it.

With thanks,

Candi

Our Promise to You

By the end of this course, you will have learned company valuation.

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