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SESSION 4: FINANCING & FINANCING SOURCE PANEL
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
6:00pm to 9:00pm, Room: 6-120
Part 1: Non-Investor Financing:
You need resources to start and grow your venture but does that mean you have to "raise" funding from traditional financial investors? What alternatives are there? This portion of the program will discuss non-investor financing by examining real cases. What are the tradeoffs both positive and negative in pursuing these alternative resources?
Speaker:
John Pyrovolakis
Serial Entrepreneur
CEO, Kenotomeo, Inc.
MIT $50k Alum (1996)
- Read his Bio Here
Presentation Slides:
To Be Posted Here After Presentation
Part 2: Financing Sources Panel
You have identified the product/service and the market. You have settled on a business model and have done your financial projections. How will you finance the plan?
This session will cover: Bootstrapping the early stages. Funding from the 3 F's- Friends, Family and Fools. Angels- who are they and what are they looking for? Private placements. Customer financing. Consulting- getting someone else to pay for the development, provide a beta site and endorse your idea. Venture capital. Bank financing.
You will learn about the institutional constraints and needs of various funding sources. As a result you will be in a better position to determine if, when and how to approach these sources for financing.
This part of the program will feature a panel of experts representing different financing sources.
Speakers:
Reading: Read Articles from the Boston Business Journal "Starting Up" column:
Also Review the Following:
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