Always build optionality into your startup’s financing strategy.

In the spirit of growing adaptive resilience while dealing with disruptive forces, we invite you to join Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center’s Executive Director, Nicola Corzine for an in-depth interactive look into identifying and charting the right funding strategy for you as an entrepreneur including:

• How do I define my fundraising roadmap?
• What paths of fundraising should I consider?
• Who are my target “investors” and how do I meet them?
• What are the practices that can unlock the most impact when fundraising in any climate?

The streets of Silicon Valley are littered with investor pitches and dozens of guidelines/best practices on what to prepare for pitching investors. Before spending hours on deck revisions, let’s start by getting you on the right path with your fundraising goals. This practical guide will help you gain clarity on the right fundraising strategy for you based on your specific needs.

There is a lot of expectation on fundraising in Silicon Valley. Much is taught on the art of mastering the perfect pitch but less on the mechanics of “why?” or even “should you?”. While investor pitching is an important part of confidence building and many entrepreneurs success, it is not the only path open to funding your company. In fact, working on the presentation is the LAST step in a rigorous journey of due diligence from you as an entrepreneur that begins with the question of how YOU define success? Once that critical insight is understood, the rest of the fundraising strategy is easy.

We invite you to share your videos for an interactive zoom meeting if you feel comfortable! Register now to pre-submit your questions now.

OUR SPECIAL GUEST

Nicola Corzine

Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, Executive Director

Nicola Corzine serves as the Executive Director of the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, a non-profit that delivers world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential. As Executive Director, Nicola is responsible for strategic and operational leadership that help drive research, programing, fundraising, and operations for the organization.

Nicola brings over 17 years of strategic business development and entrepreneurial thought leadership programming experience to the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, most recently in her role as Deal Manager for the Band of Angels, a position held since 2004 as well as Investment Partner in the 2009 Acorn fund which includes investments in Practice Fusion, Niveus Medical, and Flywheel, one of the biggest names in the E-hailing industry. During her time at the Band, she was as an early advisor to Startup America and led the development of the first national and regional Angel Capital Association conferences.

Prior to Band of Angels, Nicola was the founder and executive director of Financing Partners, an organization that delivered education to both entrepreneurs and investors to enable them to reach their mutual objectives. Before Band of Angels, she was part of three startup companies in the US and UK.

Nicola is a frequent speaker on angel investing, technology trends and seed financing at Universities including Stanford, Wharton and Duke, national conferences, including IEEE Women in Engineering, NVCA and Innovation Enterprise, and has served as a formation advisor to several regional and international angel groups and seed funds.

The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center is a 501c(3) public charity whose mission it is to make entrepreneurship accessible to all. We deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential. Please join us and make your gift to ensure these transformative programs may continue to reach the underserved.