A 3-week-long intimate workshop-style course with crypto educator, Anthony Pompliano

Kickstart Your Crypto Career

We'll start by diving into what bitcoin is and why it's important. We'll then learn how bitcoin started, how it works, and what makes it so attractive. We'll wrap up with a comparison of bitcoin vs gold.&nbsp;

Bitcoin and How it Works

What are the primary use cases of bitcoin? How does supply and demand work? What are the biggest misconceptions? We'll cover these high level topics before jumping into the regulatory environment, how to buy / sell bitcoin, and different ways to store bitcoin.

Understanding the Bitcoin Market

Enough about Bitcoin. Time to shift gears towards the rest of the crypto universe.&nbsp;We'll start with the world of Ethereum and its core innovation: smart contracts. We'll then talk through decentralized finance (DeFi) and its regulatory environment. We'll wrap up with discussion around stable coins, and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).

The Decentralized World

We'll cover the possibilities that Web3 and DApps enable and an overview of the most popular acronyms in crypto: DAOs, (the good, bad, and ugly of) ICOs, NFTS, and social tokens

Crypto Experiments

We'll take a big step back here to focus on topics like large institutional involvement, privacy implications, our civil liberties, and taxes! Before this workshop, I'll ask you for input on other topics you want me to dive into including an opportunity for student presentations.

Broader Implications

For our last workshop, we’ll have companies lead a virtual job fair. Learn firsthand what Recruiters from top crypto companies look for. Last cohort: Freehold, GDA Capital, Coinbase, Ava Labs, OKcoin.

The Crypto Job Market

Course syllabus

Job Seekers﻿You want to start a career in crypto, but don’t know how.

Crypto Enthusiasts﻿You’re fascinated by crypto, but don't know where to start learning.

Active Crypto Investors You invest or advise others to invest, but want to learn more.

Who is this course for

Topics covered

Give students an idea of what they can expect to learn in the course while still preserving a bit of mystery/curiosity.

Use topics to give an overview of the course material

Whether you simply want to understand the space better or you want to sharpen your skills to start a career, this course is for you.

Anthony Pompliano

Cohort 16

Cohort 17

But: You don’t have a mentor with over a decade of FP&amp;A experience. You don’t have time to watch hours of so-so educational videos. And you can’t Google it because you don’t know what you don’t know. That's why I built&nbsp;FP&amp;A Bootcamp

You need to develop your FP&A skills quickly.

Effective reporting can achieve more than simply sharing the latest business results.You can provide early detection of potential issues before they become problems. You can influence strategy setting, by highlighting the metrics that matter. And you can use reporting as a tool to create more accountability in areas that lack critical visibility.

Financial Storytelling

How you present financial information matters. If you don’t just want to inform, but also influence senior decision-makers, then you need to learn how to tell stories with numbers. You need to do so in a way that is clear, concrete, credible, and memorable.

Presenting Financials

You add value by being a sparring partner for your business partners on strategy and execution, by creating visibility of results, and by raising accountability. You need to do all that without having formal authority. As a result, you need to learn how to build professional relationships and trust.

Business Partnering

FP&amp;A can be seen as a neutral third party whose mission is to ensure company funds are spent wisely. It's your role to help find the right balance to achieve sustainable growth at the right level of profitability. You will learn how to challenge your business partners on the budget while building the relationship at the same time.

Budget Management

The magic of a well-crafted financial model is that it results in one number declaring the potential of a complex project. You will become intimately familiar with the most commonly used models, understand their advantages and shortcomings, and gain confidence in knowing when to apply them.

Financial Modelling

Annual planning can get hectic. It’s also a time to take a step back and think about the business strategically. Having the right approach to planning is critical. You will learn to lead the planning process end to end. You’ll master top-down and bottom-up forecasting to improve accuracy and enable organizational learning in-year.

Planning & Forecasting

Four 2-hour-long workshops and two optional Q&amp;A sessions.

Tuesdays & Thursdays

That way the time commitment is manageable for busy professionals.

All sessions are recorded, so you can watch them at your own time if you can't attend live.

Course schedule

Finance professionals who want to develop their FP&amp;A skills.

Accountants who recently took on forecasting and planning responsibilities.

Anyone who needs to tell the financial story of a business

Who the course is for

What you will learn

<ul><li>Visualize your financials effectively.</li></ul> <ul><li>Separate signal from noise and insights from raw data.</li></ul> <ul><li>Tell the story of your business and make it stick.</li></ul> FREE BONUS: A downloadable cheatsheet, a guide on visualizations, and workshop slides with notes.

Create reports and deliver financial presentations that inspire action

<ul><li>How to start the flywheel of effective business partnering</li></ul> <ul><li>A framework to build professional relationships</li></ul> <ul><li>How to create budget discipline without "policing"</li></ul> FREE BONUS: A video on business partnering best practices, a downloadable cheatsheet, and workshop slides with notes

Take your business partnering skills to the next level

<ul><li>Match any business case to the right model</li></ul> <ul><li>Learn the five most commonly used models</li></ul> <ul><li>Machine Learning: Key Concepts</li></ul> FREE BONUS: Discounted Cash Flow Template, Scenario Modeling Template, Volume Mix Modeling Template, Videos teaching Index/Match, 4 cheatsheets,slides with notes

Develop your Financial Modelling skills

<ul><li>Successfully navigate each of the five phases of the Annual Planning process</li></ul> <ul><li>Best practices for Top-down and Bottom-up Forecasts</li></ul> <ul><li>How to address the most common Planning concerns</li></ul> FREE BONUS: Real-life examples of the three most common techniques, 2 cheatsheets,slides with notes

Master Planning & Forecasting

Create analysis, forecasts, and presentations that drive the business forward. Master the essential skills of Financial Planning & Analysis.

Christian Wattig

January 2023

March 2023

Create a ready-to-invest portfolio YOU have designed to meet YOUR unique needs. 🎯&nbsp; Gain clarity on your money goals and hit that buy button with confidence. 🧭 Start building long-term wealth for your family. 💰

Go from novice to confident stock market investor 🚀

﻿Your money beliefs impact your investment returns. 🧠Assess where you are financially, visualize where you want to go, and learn how to avoid the psychological pitfalls that can cost you a fortune over a lifetime of investing.Discover your deepest, truest motives for stewarding your wealth. Learn to conquer your “inner villain”.

Clarify your money goals and stop self-sabotaging your returns

﻿Successful investing is not mysterious. 🎩It hinges on mastering a small number of key concepts. In this session, you'll:<ul><li>demystify the vocabulary of investing</li><li>learn to use compounding to your advantage</li><li>understand the power of correlation, and</li><li>grasp the power of asset allocation.</li></ul>You'll embrace, not fear, the market's volatility.

Understand the key principles of investing

﻿Build a portfolio suited to your risk tolerance, investment goals, and time horizon. 💰In this session, using prescreened data, you'll apply the investment concepts you just learned and create a rough draft of your portfolio. We'll build your prototype in real-time, as a group.

Build version 1.0 of your custom portfolio

﻿Now that you can easily sling data around, I’ll show you how to narrow down your investment choices from thousands of funds. 🎯In this session, you’ll learn how to use my proprietary screening tool to find the handful of funds that meet your criteria. No need to overthink or overanalyze your choices -- My tool keeps things simple.

Master my proprietary tool to zero in on the best funds for you

﻿A random list of funds does not make a portfolio.&nbsp;📈In this hands-on session, you’ll play with the funds you screened in session 4 to build a portfolio that is tuned for your investment objectives, timeframe, and risk tolerance. You’ll understand why you're choosing each fund, and what role it will play in your portfolio.

Build version 2.0 of your custom portfolio

Enhance your portfolio even further.&nbsp;✅In this session, you’ll learn to use a powerful tool well-known to investment professionals to squeeze out a bit more potential return without taking on more risk. It’s a simple but effective technique that most amateur investors don’t know about.

Optimize version 3.0 of your portfolio for the risk you’re willing to take

﻿You’ll sleep better at night after you test drive your portfolio through your worst-case scenario. 🏁In this session, I will teach you to run Monte Carlo simulations to estimate how much money you could lose should all hell break loose. Don’t like what you found out? Tweak your portfolio.

Test drive version 4.0 of your portfolio to sleep better at night

Congratulations!&nbsp;🚀﻿You are now ready to hit the buy button and start populating your brokerage account with your hand-picked ETFs and mutual funds. ﻿In this session, I will address any lingering questions/fears/doubts, review key concepts as needed, and make sure that you are off to a confident start as an investor.&nbsp;

Run through our “pre-flight” checklist and launch

You'll pick either the afternoon or evening cohort for our live workshops, where you'll learn, apply and practice in small breakouts. Plus I host an afterparty after class to answer your questions.

Learning is best when there's a specific action item after class. There will be some pre-reading for certain weeks.

Guided self-paced action items

You’re a savvy professional who wants to build wealth in the stock market, but is confused how to start or have dabbled with mixed results.

You want to learn from an expert (20+ year Wall Street veteran), who is no B.S., speaks human, not jargon, and makes investing fun.&nbsp;

You want to steward your wealth with confidence, keeping it simple and with a reasonable time commitment, not spending more than an hour/wk.

Who is this stock market investing course for?

After taking this course you’ll ….

You'll have built your portfolio, custom-designed for your investment goals, timeframe, and risk tolerance. ﻿After 30 days, through hands-on activities in small groups, and a lot of guidance from me, you’ll be ready to smash that buy button with confidence.

Be ready to invest your portfolio 🌱

Shift from fear and scarcity to abundance. Push through what's held you back from investing well in the past. Investing now brings you peace of mind because you know what to do, how to do it, and why you're doing it.

Go from confusion to clarity 🎉

You'll learn how to use the tools provided to make ongoing adjustments to your portfolio.&nbsp;Having mastered key investment concepts, you'll stop second-guessing yourself and getting spooked when markets get rough.

Own an investment toolkit 🛠️

﻿Classmates can become your “Investment Committee” with which to share new investment ideas or parse the markets. You'll build friendships working in breakouts, and find 2-3 "thought partners" you'll want to continue discussing investments with after the course.

Have a close-knit community of fellow investors  👩🏻👨🏼🧔🏾

﻿Because you’ve applied a Nobel Prize-winning approach to reducing risk, you no longer worry yourself awake.

Sleep better at night 😴

﻿It’s not over when you hit that buy button. You'll continue to monitor your portfolio with confidence. All it takes is an hour a week.

Spend only an hour per week monitoring ⏰

Your investment portfolio should be as unique as your fingerprints. Create yours in just 10 weeks. Own your financial future.

Cohort meets Tues and Thurs 1230 PM - 200 pm EST 

Cohort 12a - Afternoon

Cohort meets Tues and Thurs 6:30-8:00pm EST

Cohort 12b - Evening

Andy Gupta

Cohort meets Tues and Thus 730-830 pm EST 

Cohort 11 - Evening

Cohort meets Tues and Thurs 12:30-1:30pm ET ( +30 minute afterparty)

Cohort 14 - Afternoon

Unlock your company's next level of growth by gaining clarity on what you do and why you do it. You can’t be everything to everyone, but you can be something great for someone. Join this two-week crash course to learn how.

Great startups deserve great brands

Most people think branding is about adding flourish, but actually it’s largely about paring things down to their essence. We'll demystify brand strategy and explain why it's important to unclutter your messaging and get a few key components right from the earliest stages of company building.

What's a brand and why you should care

Stop circling on mission and vision. You just need one thing: a purpose. We'll use cultural tensions and your brand's best self to formulate your reason for being. Great brands use this as a compass for company decision making — and to make people root for them.

How to articulate your purpose

Do you know your exact target market and the position you want your product to take in your customers' minds? If you've ever felt unsure about how you talk about your product, or whom you're talking to, this section is for you.

How to nail your position

Brands are like people: they need tension to be interesting. Define your brand personality and see how brands come to life from brief to launch-ready assets.

How to bring your brand to life

Introductory session

Workshops are on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00am to 12:00pm PT to allow for people from as many timezones as possible to attend.

4 workshops

Refine your work with feedback from your instructors and fellow students.

Pre-work / homework

Optional office hours follow each of the 4 workshops.

4 office hours

Graduation

Early stage startup founders who are just getting started (pre-seed to series A)

Growth marketers who want to add brand strategy to your skill set

Founding teams at any stage looking to better (re)position your product

Who this course is for:

Master the skills and frameworks that help build a lasting brand

You can't be everything to everyone, so be something great for someone. Define who that someone is for the next 18 months.

Narrow in on your target audience using the concentric circle model

If you don't define your category, someone else will do it for you — and not in a way you'll necessarily like.

Choose the category in which to play

Startups worry too much about other startups and not enough about the old way of doing things, which is often what loses when you win.

Define your foil (what you're up against) in your customers' minds

Brand is a lens through which to make decisions and your company's purpose is your north star. Articulate one that will make people want to root for you.

Craft your purpose and use it to make company decisions

What every early stage company needs to know about purpose, position, and personality to build the foundation for a distinctive brand.

Arielle Jackson

Cohort 4

Cohort 5

A 3-week-long hands-on interactive course to help you understand how to bring AI products to life and pave your path as an AI PM role at your dream tech company, with 0 coding skills. Plus, get a certificate of completion. All sessions will be recorded and you can access them at any point. The live sessions will be help 9-10:30am PT. If you are interested in my Ace Your Product Management Interview course, it is found here: https://maven.com/marily-nika/ace-pm-interview.

The Art of AI Product Management

PM fundamentals and key technical concepts

From idea generation to MVP & long term strategic roadmap

Tools and methodologies for technical PMs

Effective cross-functional collaboration & strategies behind successful product roll-outs with real world examples

You will get to do live mock Interviews led by industry experts

Course Structure

Aspiring Product Managers looking to understand the AI Product Development Lifecycle

Software Engineers looking to pave their path towards AI Product Management and understand how to position their skillset in the right ways.

Current Product Managers that wish to establish

What Marily will cover in 3 weeks

Understanding the key technical &amp; AI concepts product managers need, in order to solve user problems with smart, niche technologies

Strengthening &amp; mastering the diverse skillset you will need throughout the product development lifecycle

Learning how to effectively partner &amp; collaborate with scientists, engineers and key stakeholders day-to-day while executing on your roadmap

Adopting a product-mindset &amp; user-first perspective throughout the AI product development lifecycle

Be able to train models end-to-end, understand the technical concepts behind model training

Strengthening your analytical skills, metrics-driven approach &amp; insight-driven decision making

You will get to do live mock interviews by PMs in the industry

Learn the concepts, frameworks, tools needed to get the job & build AI-enhanced products with 0 coding experience. Get certified!

Dr. Marily Nika

AI Product Lead @ FANG

Cohort 6

Does understanding payment systems exhaust you? In this 1-week cohort, you’ll learn how these systems impact your everyday life like buying your favorite Starbucks coffee.&nbsp; You’ll have the understanding needed to build that next billion-dollar fintech.

Go from Payments Novice to Payments Hero in 1 Week

<ul><li>Learn about the different players in the payments ecosystem, and bring it into a real life situation you can relate with.</li><li>We'll go through all of the elements of the Payments Ecosystem including Issuers, Acquirers, Banks, and Card Networks.</li><li>We'll talk about the players in the space and some innovations happening.</li></ul>

Payments Ecosystem Overview

<ul><li>We'll talk about how money actually moves. What happens at time of authorization, and what happens at time of clearing.</li><li>What is the role of the banks and networks?</li><li>Discuss timing of money movement and what types of opportunities could exist because of this timing.</li><li>Challenges with moving money in real time</li></ul>

Money Movement

<ul><li>ACH/EFT</li><li>Peer-to-Peer (Venmo, Zelle, Cashapp)</li><li>RTP</li><li>Push to Card (Visa Direct and Mastercard Send) - Also referred to as OCT</li></ul>

Other Money Movement Methods

You'll be able to distinguish between the following card types:<ul><li>Credit vs Debit</li><li>Commercial vs Consumer</li><li>Durbin vs Durbin Exempt</li></ul> You'll be able to distinguish between the following merchant types:<ul><li>Online vs Offline</li><li>Interchange Fixed Pricing vs Interchange Plus Pricing</li><li>High Risk vs Low Risk</li></ul>

Card Types and Merchant Types

We'll discuss how all parts of the the ecosystem make money.<ul><li>What is the motivation of the merchant?</li><li>What is the motivation of the merchant processor?</li><li>What is the motivation of the card issuer?</li><li>What is the motivation of the card network?</li></ul> We'll also walk through the Payments Mocha and how revenue is made for all parts of the payments ecosystem.

Revenue Models in Payments

Card Based Payments and the Payments Ecosystem

Day 1: Monday September 19, 2022

Non-Card Based Payments and how money moves

Day 2: Wednesday September 21, 2022

Day 3: Thursday September 22, 2022

Cohort 3P: Course Schedule

You are a Startup Founder building in the fintech space, but you don't know how payments will impact your business model.

You just got a job at a hot fintech or payments company and you want to start adding value immediately.

You are getting into the payments and fintech space for the first time and want to have a good foundation to build your career.

Who is this course for?

Key outcomes

You’re not sure what problems needed solving. By diving deep into the payments ecosystem, you'll get a great understanding of how money is made for all parties, and where there are opportunities for innovation.

You’ll have a better understanding of the payments ecosystem

Much like Ad based businesses, consumers typically don't pay fees to use financial services. Then how is money actually made for all parties in the payments ecosystem? Learn how interchange flows and how people build entire businesses on this concept.

Understand Revenue Streams in Payments

Building a payments or fintech company can get lonely. Meet other individuals just like you in this cohort. It will be an amazing opportunity to build life-long connections.

Meet others in the payments and fintech space

Work with people in your cohort and the instructor on how you will leverage payments in your company or startup.

One-on-One help for your payments or fintech company

Learn payment system fundamentals to unlock multi-billion dollar opportunities.

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