Hello 🙂
This IfWeRaise newsletter contains:
• IfWeRaise news & events
• Three useful links
• Final thought
Enjoy 🚀
Free webinar - What every founder should know about fundraising… but no one tells you
Join us on Friday at 1PM for a free webinar featuring super angel Marcus Exall in conversation with IfWeRaise. After a successful career as a founder himself, Marcus has been investing in early stage businesses for over a decade taking a ‘founder first’ approach, focused on adding value beyond the money.
Updated IfWeRaise founder resources
We’ve updated the website with articles and resources including our new guide The First Time Founder’s Roadmap and new articles including Don’t build your B2B product yet. Make a sale first.
Course: Create your personalised startup funding strategy - Get up to speed in 2hrs
Startup fundraising is full of new concepts, complex terms and providers who have an interest in you raising as much money as possible.
This workshop is for founders who want to be empowered to understand their fundraising choices and the implications for them and their business in the long run.
£49 - with 50% off for underserved or lower income founders
Course: Revenue now - How to get customers before you get investors
Over four weeks you will develop the key skills you’ll need to test demand for your idea and start generating revenue - a step you can do earlier than you think!
The course covers the core skills any first time founder needs to master (whether you’re thinking of fundraising or not).
The techniques we use are most effective for digital product and service businesses that don't require significant working capital to get started.
£249 - with 50% off for underserved or lower income founders
⭐ Three useful links
The latest Not My First Guess podcast episode - Flush with ideas to end pollution - period with Martha Silcott, Founder of FabLittleBag
Free, two week entrepreneurial summer school for 13-19 year olds - love to see this, shout out to Muhammad Malik
‘Founders: don't build a unicorn - Why not just make something people want?’ Patrick Ryan of Odin challenges the venture capital orthodoxy.
💭 Final thought
At IfWeRaise our goal has always been to enable founders by reducing risk and increasing speed. So much content for founders is focused on how to raise money from angels and VC. Very little is focused on empowering founders to genuinely validate problem/solution fit early and drive revenue early - enabling a much more efficient use of funds.
More control, less dilution and lower risk are just some of the benefits of a conservative use of capital. Our two new courses are designed to enable founders to plan fundraising effectively and build lean to validate with revenue early.
Enjoy your August ☔️
Hattie and Tim