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Always build some 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 successful Finance Optionality for your business.

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.

By the end of this hour you’ll walk away with a firm grounding on:

  • Are you venture backable today?
  • What alternative paths of fundraising should I consider?
  • How long does it take to raise capital?
  • Who are my target “investors” and how do I meet them?
  • What happens after the term sheet and check are received?

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.


Speaker Bio

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. In its first two years of operations, the Center has enabled over 7,500 entrepreneurs from 68 countries to receive quality education, resources and mentoring to propel their businesses and ensure global economic advancement. 

Nicola brings over 15 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. 

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