Understand the decision-making process and design your first investment strategy in 3 weeks. 

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Understand the decision-making process and design your first investment strategy in 3 weeks.

Olga Duka

GP @ Improve Ventures, Co-founder at BAS

Why you should invest in startups

Investing in startups is risky business, but it can be more financially rewarding than most other types of investment. Angel investing can also become a full time or part time profession. This course is designed for investors who are considering early stage startup investing, but aren’t sure where to begin and for newbie angel investors who’ve made the first investments, but want to develop a more strategic approach and efficient process. The primary takeaways from the course are a clearer sense of whether angel investing is right for you and a plan to invest at the level that feels right for you.

How to develop an angel investment strategy

You are a founder who needs to understand investor logic and criteria better for your next fundraise, and expand your investor network.

You are a corporate employee looking to explore angel investing for a part of your income, but are unsure of where to begin.

You are an aspiring investor, who wants to learn the fundamentals of venture asset class and structure your way forward.

Who is this course for

Key outcomes

<ul><li>Workbook and presentations</li><li>Angel profile checklist</li><li>Startup evaluation checklist</li><li>Due diligence checklist</li><li>Investment strategy template</li><li>Personalized list of recommendations re investor &amp; founder networks and platforms </li></ul>

Materials

Understanding your reasons to invest in startups, your skills and talents, risk perception, passions and preferences, and networks to define a fitting investment strategy.

Risk Profile

Learning the basic principles of startup assessment, practicing it repeatedly, gaining visibility and conducting your own research.

Startup Assessment

Divide and conquer: find partners while understanding the mechanics of due diligence. Learn how to walk away from a risk that you personally are not willing to take.

Due Diligence

Creating a repeatable and coherent decision-making framework that works individually for you. Matching your skills, risk profile, financial capacity to an individual investment strategy that evolves over time.

Decision-Making 

To play, you must understand the basic mechanics of the game.Let`s walk through a venture ecosystem landscape, to understand the startup risks, typical win and failure stories, the role and profile of angels, as well as a required competence and a learning curve for novice angel investors.

Introduction to Angel Investing

First priority: reducing unnecessary risks. Startup assessment is science and art, which you will master over time. Don`t worry over not being able to understand something, or not knowing how to assess certain angles to the business – it does take time and experience, and you are just getting started.

Startup Evaluation Basics

First rule of acquisition: the investment discipline.&nbsp;Take the risks you understand and cut down the risks that you do not. Defining your reasoning and profile with its natural limitations, will help build your strategy - and make it easier for startups and other investors to find you.

Building Your Angel Profile

Understanding due diligence is indeed important but you do not have to master it immediately – you can join forces with experts. Yet, learning the key principles is important, and will eventually cut down your risks - and save your sanity. Cool part: your existing business experience is applicable.

Due Diligence for Startups and Investors

Assembling our jigsaw puzzle: how to create a personalized, repeatable, and coherent decision-making framework? We will match your risk profile, skills and experience, financial limits, liquidity expectations, networks to strategies that work individually for you and see where it lands you.

Decision-Making Frameworks

Course syllabus

Plus we hold instructor office hours every Wednesday for 1 hour.

Tuesdays & Thursdays

We will have pre-work items and in-session exercises, and instructor office hours, making the course as practical as possible.

Weekly projects

Course schedule

A few words from our alumni

Meet your instructor

Checklist, template and framework are our favourite key words.

Systematic Approach

Hand-on Training

Learn in a group, in small breakouts, peer-to-peer, and on your own.

Interactive workshops

Hands-on, interactive, systematic - and fun

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