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How to get and optimise your Startup Seed Invesment for a Series A - Working Lunch

In the UK, conventional wisdom says you should get £250K Seed Investment for your startup from Business Angels but if you really want to 'go big', this can create tensions when you want to get a large Series A from a VC fund.


Early Angel investors often struggle to get the same preferences or protection as the VC's and consequently are at greater risk on getting any of their investment back if your startup can't deliver...

Serial entrepreneur and investor Ian Ritchie, has been leading research into this problem with the Royal Society of Edinburgh and has identified a couple of possible ideas for ambitious entrepreneurs who want to optimise their chances of early and later stages of investment but there is still no easy answer.


The purpose of this exclusive event is to reveal the findings of his report and to discuss the alternative ways Startup Founders can raise early stage funding that reduces future conflicts of interest.

Ian will also share and discuss his 'Top Tips' for getting the attention of Investors when crafting slide decks, pitches and executive summaries.

This event is ideally suited for ambitious Startup Founders who want to raise significant investment in Scotland, their Advisers and Investors.


WORKING LUNCH AGENDA: (bring a sandwich)

12:00 Networking

12:30 Ian Ritchie - How to get and optimise your Startup Seed Invesment for a Series A

13:30 Networking

14:30 Close

Attendance is limited to 20, so if you want to benefit, register ASAP to avoid being disappointed.


This event is kindly sponsored by Maclay Murray and Spens LLP, the only UK-headquartered member of the Lex Mundi network which gives their clients access to 21,000 lawyers covering 160 jurisdictions in 100 countries.


James Shoemark who has been facilitating confidential peer advisory boards for startup founders and entrepreneurs in Edinburgh since 2011 will be MC'ing the event and interviewing Ian Ritchie.

Check out his short video about how a mastermind or peer advisory board can empower your entrepreneurial success here - http://bit.ly/1TxQSyi

http://www.meetup.com/HeroicEntrepreneurs/events/223309257/

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-get-and-optimise-your-startup-seed-invesment-for-a-series-a-working-lunch-tickets-17438730713

Tue 7th Jul 2015 12:00pm (Europe/London)

Tue 7th Jul 2015 2:30pm (Europe/London)

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Upgrade Your Startup Brain to 2.0+ and Enable More Success - Working Lunch

What Startup problem or entrepreneurial dilemma is keeping you awake at night or preventing you from achieving the success that you want?

Fact is, it's a waste of your time, energy and money for you to re-invent the wheel every time you are faced with a new problem or dilemma.

Fortunately there is an easy way for you to solve the problems that you face and even prevent you from making disastrous mistakes.

The answer is to Upgrade Your Startup Brain with the wisdom, understanding and experience of those entrepreneurs who have gone before you and have already worked out the answers that you need.

Then you can concentrate on the really important activity

*IMPLEMENTING THE SOLUTION*



The purpose of this event is to give you an opportunity to share your most pressing problem or dilemma with a community of like-minded entrepreneurs who are committed to helping helping each other to be more successful and get amazing solutions you can implement.

This event is suited to Startup Founders and Entrepreneurs who want to tap into the experience, knowledge and support of their peers, focus their time, energy and money on their most productive activities and reduce their likelihood of failure.



This one-hour Working Lunch will give you chance to:

1 - Ask the group for advice on how to overcome your most pressing problem or dilemma

2 - Get objective feedback from your peers rather than your mum or long suffering wife

3 - Discover the thing you didn't know, you didn't know

4 - Ask for accountability from the group to help you implement your solution

5 - Discover you are not alone and many people actually share the same frustrations as you

6 - Make a real difference and help others with your hard earned wisdom and experience

7 - Join a like-minded community committed to helping each other to be more successful



Working Lunch Agenda: (bring a sandwich)

12:00 Networking

12:30 Upgrade Your Startup Brain to 2.0+

13:30 Networking

14:30 Close

All participants will sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement to protect your confidentiality



Attendance is limited to 20, so if you want to benefit, register ASAP to avoid being disappointed.

Why not join our members site to keep in touch and get all the latest information? http://www.meetup.com/HeroicEntrepreneurs

This event is kindly sponsored by Maclay Murray and Spens LLP, the only UK-headquartered member of the Lex Mundi network which gives their clients access to 21,000 lawyers covering 160 jurisdictions in 100 countries.



PS: An other activity you could try to solve your startup problems is asking the Universe to help you:

Good Luck

http://www.meetup.com/HeroicEntrepreneurs/

https://eventbrite.co.uk/event/17217224181/

What makes you think your startup will be successful?

Do you know what the single most important risk is to your business right now and are you confidently addressing it?

Unfortunately the statistics are not in your favour, as 95% of first time startup founders FAIL because they waste all their time, energy and money, building something nobody wants

The purpose of this event is to massively increase your chances of being in the 5% that SUCCEED by teaching you how to 'get out of the building' and validate the core assumptions in your business model.


As an entrepreneur, your main job is to:

1 - Correctly determine who your ideal customer is.

2 - Correctly determine what their problem is.

3 - Correctly determine what your solution is.

4 - Correctly determine what your Unique Value Proposition is.

5 - Correctly determine what your Revenue Streams will be.

6 - Correctly determine what your Key Metrics are

7 - Correctly determine what your Cost Structure will be

How many of the above would you say you have validated?

Which is the most critical that you must address right now?


This one-hour Working Lunch will help you to:

• Learn how to massively the chances of your startup's success!

• Accelerate the creation of your repeatable and scalable business model

• Gain valuable insights by going through the process with other entrepreneurs

• Learn how to quickly and easily validate your core assumptions


Working Lunch Agenda: (bring a sandwich)

12:00 Networking

12:30 Learn how to massively increase the chances of your startup's success!

13:30 Networking

14:30 Close


Attendance is limited to 20, so if you want to benefit, register ASAP to avoid being disappointed.

For more info see http://www.meetup.com/HeroicEntrepreneurs

This event is kindly sponsored by Maclay Murray and Spens LLP, the only UK-headquartered member of the Lex Mundi network which gives their clients access to 21,000 lawyers covering 160 jurisdictions in 100 countries.

What makes you think your startup will be successful?

Do you know what the single most important risk is to your business right now and are you confidently addressing it?

Unfortunately the statistics are not in your favour, as 95% of first time startup founders FAIL because they waste all their time, energy and money, building something nobody wants

The purpose of this event is to massively increase your chances of being in the 5% that SUCCEED by teaching you how to 'get out of the building' and validate the core assumptions in your business model.


As an entrepreneur, your main job is to:

1 - Correctly determine who your ideal customer is.

2 - Correctly determine what their problem is.

3 - Correctly determine what your solution is.

4 - Correctly determine what your Unique Value Proposition is.

5 - Correctly determine what your Revenue Streams will be.

6 - Correctly determine what your Key Metrics are

7 - Correctly determine what your Cost Structure will be

How many of the above would you say you have validated?

Which is the most critical that you must address right now?


This one-hour Working Lunch will help you to:

• Learn how to massively the chances of your startup's success!

• Accelerate the creation of your repeatable and scalable business model

• Gain valuable insights by going through the process with other entrepreneurs

• Learn how to quickly and easily validate your core assumptions


Working Lunch Agenda: (bring a sandwich)

12:00 Networking

12:30 Learn how to massively increase the chances of your startup's success!

13:30 Networking

14:30 Close


Attendance is limited to 20, so if you want to benefit, register ASAP to avoid being disappointed.

For more info see http://www.meetup.com/HeroicEntrepreneurs

This event is kindly sponsored by Maclay Murray and Spens LLP, the only UK-headquartered member of the Lex Mundi network which gives their clients access to 21,000 lawyers covering 160 jurisdictions in 100 countries.

http://www.meetup.com/HeroicEntrepreneurs/events/221258033/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/learn-how-to-massively-increase-the-chances-of-your-startups-success-working-lunch-tickets-16803306141

How to raise £1.5 million investment - Working Lunch

Building a high-growth startup and looking for investment?

Then learn how to do it (and what not to do) from heroically successful Edinburgh entrepreneur Pete Higgins Founder and CEO of Uwi Technologies Ltd at our Working Lunch on the 10th March.


According to Paul Graham, founder of incubator Y Combinator,“Raising money is the second hardest part of starting a startup. The hardest part is making something people want... But the second biggest cause of death is probably the difficulty of raising money. Fundraising is brutal.”

In one hour, this Working Lunch will enable you to:

- Understand the basic success criteria necessary to attract investors
- Discover what mistakes to avoid
- Identify guiding principles to increase your chances of success
- Establish your own path to significant investment


In order to achieve this, Pete Higgins, will be sharing his tumultuous journey from concept stage through to eventually raising £1.5 Million of investment (which included £150,000 in one weekend).

Working Lunch Agenda: (bring a sandwich)

12:00 Networking

12:30 Pete Higgins - How to raise £1.5 million investment

1:30 Networking

2:30 Close

Attendance is limited to 20 Edinburgh Entrepreneurs, so if you want to benefit, book in ASAP to avoid being disappointed.

This topic was chosen by the group members via this poll:

http://www.meetup.com/HeroicEntrepreneurs/polls/

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This is an exclusive event because its purpose is to bring like-minded people in the Scottish startup community of Founders, Hackers and Entrepreneurs together to empower and inspire each others success with pragmatic discussions and activities inspired by the thinking of the lean startup pioneers Steve Blank, Eric Ries and Ash Maurya.

This experience is different from anything else available in Scotland because not only are we practicing the cutting edge Lean Startup principles but we believe no one is better qualified than entrepreneurs who are personally 'in the growth hacking trenches' to inspire and guide you to success; to recommend resources and answer questions on the most riskiest areas of your startup. Talk to any seasoned entrepreneur and they'll tell you "Don't go it alone; find people you can confide in".

The groups objectives are to:

Learn and apply the most effective Lean Startup principles
Learn from each other's experiences
Develop relationships with like-minded entrepreneurs
Focus on specific startup challenges i.e. validation, traction, funding etc
Tap into each other's knowledge, resources and networks
Set goals and encourage accountability
Enable more business

The Meetup is kindly sponsored by MMS Edinburgh at Quartermile One

Bring your lunch...

http://www.meetup.com/HeroicEntrepreneurs/

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-raise-15-million-investment-working-lunch-tickets-15550625339

https://eventbrite.co.uk/event/15419077877/

How does your startup compare with the rankings of Edinburgh's finest and brightest?

Find out here http://www.meetup.com/HeroicEntrepreneurs/events/219276899/

Next to building something your customers actually want, getting their attention online is the next most important task. Yet this is getting more and more challenging each day!

In one hour, this working lunch will reveal innovative startup marketing secrets that will give you a strategy to significantly boost your internet rankings and ultimately, your startup's sales generation.


Working Lunch Agenda: (bring a sandwich)

12:00 Networking

12:30 Startup Marketing Secrets

1:30 Networking

2:30 Close

Bring a sandwich!

Attendance is limited to 20, so if you want to benefit, RSVP ASAP to avoid being disappointed.

This topic was chosen by the group members via this poll http://www.meetup.com/HeroicEntrepreneurs/polls/

This event is kindly sponsored by Maclay Murray and Spens LLP, the only UK-headquartered member of the Lex Mundi network which gives their clients access to 21,000 lawyers covering 160 jurisdictions in 100 countries.

The goals of the Heroic Entrepreneurs Open Meetup are to:

- Share war stories
- Learn from each other's experiences
- Develop relationships with your peers
- Share solutions to common challenges
- Tap into each other's resources
- Set goals and ask for accountability
- Enable more business

Between 7 - 20 people regularly attend these events booking in via Meetup and Eventbrite.

Startup Marketing Secrets (Working Lunch)

Startup Marketing Secrets - Working Lunch

How does your startup compare with the rankings of Edinburgh's finest and brightest?

Find out here http://www.meetup.com/HeroicEntrepreneurs/events/219276899/

Next to building something your customers actually want, getting their attention online is the next most important task. Yet this is getting more and more challenging each day!

In one hour, this working lunch will reveal innovative startup marketing secrets that will give you a strategy to significantly boost your internet rankings and ultimately, your startup's sales generation.


Working Lunch Agenda: (bring a sandwich)

12:00 Networking

12:30 Startup Marketing Secrets

1:30 Networking

2:30 Close

Bring a sandwich!

Attendance is limited to 20, so if you want to benefit, RSVP ASAP to avoid being disappointed.

This topic was chosen by the group members via this poll http://www.meetup.com/HeroicEntrepreneurs/polls/

This event is kindly sponsored by Maclay Murray and Spens LLP, the only UK-headquartered member of the Lex Mundi network which gives their clients access to 21,000 lawyers covering 160 jurisdictions in 100 countries.

The goals of the Heroic Entrepreneurs Open Meetup are to:

- Share war stories
- Learn from each other's experiences
- Develop relationships with your peers
- Share solutions to common challenges
- Tap into each other's resources
- Set goals and ask for accountability
- Enable more business

http://www.meetup.com/HeroicEntrepreneurs/events/219276899/

Tue 10th Feb 2015 12:30pm (Europe/London)

Tue 10th Feb 2015 1:30pm (Europe/London)

Meet and hang out with Edinburgh entrepreneurs, Startup Founders and CEO's to discuss disruptive startup ideas to accelerate our success over a working lunch.

Specific topics will be announced nearer the time but generally our goals are to:

- Share war stories
- Learn from each other's experiences
- Develop relationships with your peers
- Share solutions to common challenges
- Tap into each other's resources
- Set goals and ask for accountability
- Enable more business

The Meetup is kindly sponsored by MMS Edinburgh at Quartermile One

Bring your lunch...

Meet and hang out with Edinburgh entrepreneurs, Startup Founders and CEO's to discuss disruptive startup ideas to accelerate our success over a working lunch.

Specific topics will be announced nearer the time but generally our goals are to:

- Share war stories
- Learn from each other's experiences
- Develop relationships with your peers
- Share solutions to common challenges
- Tap into each other's resources
- Set goals and ask for accountability
- Enable more business

The Meetup is kindly sponsored by MMS Edinburgh at Quartermile One

Bring your lunch...

Meet and hang out with Edinburgh entrepreneurs, Startup Founders and CEO's to discuss disruptive startup ideas to accelerate our success over a working lunch.

Specific topics will be announced nearer the time but generally our goals are to:

- Share war stories
- Learn from each other's experiences
- Develop relationships with your peers
- Share solutions to common challenges
- Tap into each other's resources
- Set goals and ask for accountability
- Enable more business

The Meetup is kindly sponsored by MMS Edinburgh at Quartermile One

Bring your lunch...

Meet and hang out with Edinburgh entrepreneurs, Startup Founders and CEO's to discuss disruptive startup ideas to accelerate our success over a working lunch.

Specific topics will be announced nearer the time but generally our goals are to:

- Share war stories
- Learn from each other's experiences
- Develop relationships with your peers
- Share solutions to common challenges
- Tap into each other's resources
- Set goals and ask for accountability
- Enable more business

The Meetup is kindly sponsored by MMS Edinburgh at Quartermile One

Bring your lunch...

Meet and hang out with Edinburgh entrepreneurs, Startup Founders and CEO's to discuss disruptive startup ideas to accelerate our success over a working lunch.

Specific topics will be announced nearer the time but generally our goals are to:

- Share war stories
- Learn from each other's experiences
- Develop relationships with your peers
- Share solutions to common challenges
- Tap into each other's resources
- Set goals and ask for accountability
- Enable more business

The Meetup is kindly sponsored by MMS Edinburgh at Quartermile One

Bring your lunch...

Meet and hang out with Edinburgh entrepreneurs, Startup Founders and CEO's to discuss disruptive startup ideas to accelerate our success over a working lunch.

Specific topics will be announced nearer the time but generally our goals are to:

- Share war stories
- Learn from each other's experiences
- Develop relationships with your peers
- Share solutions to common challenges
- Tap into each other's resources
- Set goals and ask for accountability
- Enable more business

The Meetup is kindly sponsored by MMS Edinburgh at Quartermile One

Bring your lunch...

Heroic Entrepreneurs Open Meetup

Meet and hang out with Edinburgh entrepreneurs, Startup Founders and CEO's to discuss startup ideas to accelerate our success over a working lunch.

- Share war stories
- Learn from each other's experiences
- Develop relationships with your peers
- Share solutions to common challenges
- Tap into each other's resources
- Set goals and ask for accountability
- Enable more business

The Meetup is kindly sponsored by MMS Edinburgh at Quartermile One

Bring your lunch...

Tue 10th Feb 2015 12:00pm (Europe/London)

Tue 10th Feb 2015 2:00pm (Europe/London)

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Heroic Entrepreneurs Open Meetup

Meet and hang out with Edinburgh entrepreneurs, Startup Founders and CEO's to discuss startup ideas to accelerate our success over a working lunch.

- Share war stories
- Learn from each other's experiences
- Develop relationships with your peers
- Share solutions to common challenges
- Tap into each other's resources
- Set goals and ask for accountability
- Enable more business

The Meetup is kindly sponsored by MMS Edinburgh at Quartermile One

Bring your lunch...

Tue 10th Mar 2015 12:00pm (Europe/London)

Tue 10th Mar 2015 2:00pm (Europe/London)

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Heroic Entrepreneurs Open Meetup

Meet and hang out with Edinburgh entrepreneurs, Startup Founders and CEO's to discuss startup ideas to accelerate our success over a working lunch.

- Share war stories
- Learn from each other's experiences
- Develop relationships with your peers
- Share solutions to common challenges
- Tap into each other's resources
- Set goals and ask for accountability
- Enable more business

The Meetup is kindly sponsored by MMS Edinburgh at Quartermile One

Bring your lunch...

Tue 14th Apr 2015 12:00pm (Europe/London)

Tue 14th Apr 2015 2:00pm (Europe/London)

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Heroic Entrepreneurs Open Meetup

Meet and hang out with Edinburgh entrepreneurs, Startup Founders and CEO's to discuss startup ideas to accelerate our success over a working lunch.

- Share war stories
- Learn from each other's experiences
- Develop relationships with your peers
- Share solutions to common challenges
- Tap into each other's resources
- Set goals and ask for accountability
- Enable more business

The Meetup is kindly sponsored by MMS Edinburgh at Quartermile One

Bring your lunch...

Tue 12th May 2015 12:00pm (Europe/London)

Tue 12th May 2015 2:00pm (Europe/London)

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Heroic Entrepreneurs Open Meetup

Meet and hang out with Edinburgh entrepreneurs, Startup Founders and CEO's to discuss startup ideas to accelerate our success over a working lunch.

- Share war stories
- Learn from each other's experiences
- Develop relationships with your peers
- Share solutions to common challenges
- Tap into each other's resources
- Set goals and ask for accountability
- Enable more business

The Meetup is kindly sponsored by MMS Edinburgh at Quartermile One

Bring your lunch...

Tue 9th Jun 2015 12:00pm (Europe/London)

Tue 9th Jun 2015 2:00pm (Europe/London)

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Meet and hang out with Edinburgh entrepreneurs, Startup Founders and CEO's to discuss startup ideas to accelerate our success over a working lunch.

- Share war stories
- Learn from each other's experiences
- Develop relationships with your peers
- Share solutions to common challenges
- Tap into each other's resources
- Set goals and ask for accountability
- Enable more business

The Meetup is kindly sponsored by MMS Edinburgh at Quartermile One

Bring your lunch...

http://www.meetup.com/HeroicEntrepreneurs/

http://www.eventbrite.com/o/heroic-entrepreneurs-1048259811

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How to Protect, Strengthen & Commercialise Your Startup's Intellectual Property

For all businesses, intellectual property is increasingly important. Intellectual property can exist in your startup, in your main product, branding and even your customer database.

As a result, it is CRITICAL for Startup Founders to be able to avoid the intellectual property pitfalls that others commonly fall into by making sure that you correctly protect, strengthen and commercialise your intellectual property.

During this free seminar Julie Brown of MMS LLP will:

1 - Highlight the common IP pitfalls Startup Founders face and tell you how to avoid them.

2 - Explain how to identify your intellectual property.

3 - Help you determine whether you actually own that intellectual property

4 - Explain how to be ready for investment.

Julie Brown is an IP Specialist and an Associate in the award winning IP & Technology Team at Maclay Murray & Spens LLP.

She advises all types of clients from startups to plcs and investors on a wide variety of IP, IT and data protection matters including the sale, licensing, commercialisation and protection of intellectual property.

Agenda:

12:00 Event opens

12:10 Introductions/Pitches (practice makes perfect...)

12:20 Good News - what have you achieved or learned recently

12:30 Julie Brown from Maclay Murray and Spens

1:00 Q & A and Group Discussion

1:30 What ideas are you going to take forward?

1:45 Heads-Up on upcoming startup events, parties, opportunities, funding etc

2:00 Networking

2:30 Close

Attendance is limited to 20 Edinburgh entrepreneurs, so if you want to benefit, RSVP ASAP to avoid being disappointed.

This topic was chosen by the group members via this poll

http://www.meetup.com/HeroicEntrepreneurs/polls/

This is an exclusive event because its purpose is to bring like-minded people in the Scottish startup community of Founders, Hackers and Entrepreneurs together to empower and inspire each others success with pragmatic discussions and activities inspired by the thinking of the lean startup pioneers Steve Blank, Eric Ries and Ash Maurya.

This experience is different from anything else available in Scotland because not only are we practicing the cutting edge Lean Startup principles but we believe no one is better qualified than entrepreneurs who are personally 'in the growth hacking trenches' to inspire and guide you to success; to recommend resources and answer questions on the most riskiest areas of your startup. Talk to any seasoned entrepreneur and they'll tell you "Don't go it alone; find people you can confide in".

The groups objectives are to:

Learn and apply the most effective Lean Startup principles
Learn from each other's experiences
Develop relationships with like-minded entrepreneurs
Focus on specific startup challenges i.e. validation, traction, funding etc
Tap into each other's knowledge, resources and networks
Set goals and encourage accountability
Enable more business

http://www.meetup.com/HeroicEntrepreneurs/events/219276861/

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-protect-strengthen-commercialise-your-startups-intellectual-property-tickets-12882394589

Tue 13th Jan 2015 12:00pm (Europe/London)

Tue 13th Jan 2015 2:30pm (Europe/London)

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How to Get Your Startup Funded part 2 – Your Crowdfunding Questions Answered

Whether you are Bootstrapping or actively seeking investment for your startup, then you shouldn't miss this opportunity to learn about Crowdfunding and discuss your questions with crowdfunding expert Derek Bond, Co-Founder & Managing Director at Squareknot Limited which uniquely facilitates equity, debt and reward crowdfunding to start-up and established businesses

“Right now entrepreneurs are already using crowdfunding to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in pure donations - imagine the possibilities if these small-dollar donors became investors with a stake in the venture.” Barack Obama 2011

Squareknot was formed over two years ago to bring the two sides of the funding equation together to their mutual benefit, i.e. businesses that need cash, and individuals with cash who want to try and earn a sensible return.

Some of the crowdfunding issues we will be discussing include:

What Is Crowdfunding?

How Long Will It Take A Business To Raise The Required Level Of Funds Through Crowdfunding?

What Happens If The Target Level Of Funding Is Not Achieved?

What Are The Key Differences Between Equity Funding And Debt Funding?

What Businesses Are Eligible To Raise Funding On Squareknot?

How Much Equity Should I Offer In Return For The Target Amount Of Funding?

Can A Pitch Raise More Than Its Target Funding?

Where Does The Crowd Of Investors Come From?

How Do I Protect The Confidentiality Of My Business Idea Or Product?

What Type Of Equity Should I Issue To Investors?

What Can I Use The Money That I Raise For?

Can I Invest In My Own Pitch?

Agenda:

12:00 Event opens

12:10 Introductions/Pitches (practice makes perfect...)

12:20 Good News - what have you achieved or learned recently

12:30 Derek Bond from Squareknot - Crowdfunding Your Startup

1:00 Q & A and Group Discussion

1:30 What are you going to take forward?

1:45 Heads-Up on upcoming startup events, parties, opportunities, funding etc

2:00 Networking

2:30 Close

Attendance is limited to 20, so if you want to benefit, RSVP ASAP to avoid being disappointed

http://www.meetup.com/HeroicEntrepreneurs/events/203526922/

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/myevent?eid=12882360487

Tue 14th Oct 2014 12:00pm (Europe/London)

Tue 14th Oct 2014 2:30pm (Europe/London)

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Your Startup Fundraising Questions Answered

If you’re about to start fundraising for your startup, or aspiring to build a high-growth startup, then you can't miss this opportunity to hear and discuss your questions with successful fundraiser Gavin Littlejohn (Founder and CEO of Money Dashboard) who raised a Seed Round of over $4.1M in 2013.
According to Paul Graham, founder of incubator Y Combinator, “Raising money is the second hardest part of starting a startup. The hardest part is making something people want... But the second biggest cause of death is probably the difficulty of raising money. Fundraising is brutal.”

Gavin is a serial entrepreneur based in Edinburgh and founded Money Dashboard, to allow consumers in the UK to freely see all of their current, savings and credit card accounts in a single view and organise budgets.



During the course of his entrepreneurial journey, Gavin has developed and executed several types of funding in a variety of situations and business stages, as well as leading negotiations in some other transactions.
Some of the fundraising dilemmas we will be discussing include:

What's most important to have? Traction, Team or SEIS
Work/Work Balance? Fundraising is a full time job, what about your other full time job - customer discovery or product/service development?

When is it the right time to seek investment? When you’re turning over £20K or £2M...

How much investment should you ask for? £5K, £50K, £50M or all of them...

What should you spend it on? Staff, Marketing, Premises or Product Development...

Which kind of investors should you approach? Accelerators, Angels, Super Angels or VC’s...

How long will it take for you to get a "Yes"? 3 months or 6 months...

What will it cost you? Equity, control or money...

Where should you look? Should you be thinking locally, nationally or Silicon Valley...

How should you prepare? Perfect your pitch, Increase traction or improve your product...

How long should you keep pitching? Until you’ve had 50 “No’s” or 100...

How should you approach them? Directly or via introducers...

How much of your startup should you sell? 15% or 25%...

Who should do the fundraising? The CEO or CFO...

What information should you present? A video, slidedeck, Business Plan or Executive Summary...

What’s the ideal valuation for your startup? High or low...

Agenda:

12:00 Event opens

12:10 Introductions/Pitches (practise makes perfect...)

12:20 Good News - what have you achieved or learned recently

12:30 Gavin Littlejohn talking about Fundraising for your Startup and Group Discussion

1:30 What are you going to take forward?

1:45 Heads-Up on upcoming startup events, parties, opportunities, funding etc

2:00 Networking

2:30 Close

Attendance is limited to 20, so if you want to benefit, RSVP ASAP to avoid being disappointed

http://www.meetup.com/HeroicEntrepreneurs/events/201744642/

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/your-startup-fundraising-questions-answered-tickets-12882288271

Tue 9th Sep 2014 2:30pm (Europe/London)

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If you’re an Entrepreneur the most important question you need to ask yourself is, "How do I know I'm making progress in the right direction?"

Ultimately your startup's success depends on having a product or service that appeals to a core set of customers because if you’re building something nobody wants, what does it matter if you are on schedule, on budget or your features look good?

On the 10th June, James Shoemark will introduce the most important Unit of Progress you need to track to ensure your Startup is progressing in the right direction and measure how fast you are growing.

This is a free interactive event that will give you insights, learning and tools to reduce the amount of time, energy and money you could be wasting.

Please arrive promptly as we kick off at 12:10pm

Heroic Entrepreneurs - Growth Hacking

If you’re an Entrepreneur the most important question you need to ask yourself is, "How do I know I'm making progress in the right direction?"

Ultimately your startup's success depends on having a product or service that appeals to a core set of customers because if you’re building something nobody wants, what does it matter if you are on schedule, on budget or your features look good?

On the 10th June, James Shoemark will introduce the most important Unit of Progress you need to track to ensure your Startup is progressing in the right direction and measure how fast you are growing.

This is an interactive event that will give you insights, learning and tools to reduce the amount of time, energy and money you could be wasting.

Please arrive promptly as we kick off at 12:10pm

http://www.meetup.com/HeroicEntrepreneurs/events/181439342/

Heroic Entrepreneurs Open Meetup

No one is better qualified than entrepreneurs who have personally grown their own businesses to inspire and guide you to success; to recommend resources and answer questions on critical issues. Talk to any seasoned entrepreneur and they'll tell you - "Don't go it alone; find people you can confide in".

Consequently, this meetup's purpose is to bring entrepreneurs, founders and CEO's of different types of startup together to empower and inspire each others success by:

- Learning from each other's experiences
- Developing relationships with peers
- Focusing on common challenges
- Tapping into each other's resources
- Goal setting and accountability
- Enabling more business

The Meetup is sponsored by MMS Edinburgh and meets above Skyscanner at Quartermile One

Bring your lunch...

Tue 13th May 2014 12:00pm (Europe/London)

Tue 13th May 2014 2:00pm (Europe/London)

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Heroic Entrepreneurs Open Meetup

No one is better qualified than entrepreneurs who have personally grown their own businesses to inspire and guide you to success; to recommend resources and answer questions on critical issues. Talk to any seasoned entrepreneur and they'll tell you - "Don't go it alone; find people you can confide in".

Consequently, this meetup's purpose is to bring entrepreneurs, founders and CEO's of different types of startup together to empower and inspire each others success by:

- Learning from each other's experiences
- Developing relationships with peers
- Focusing on common challenges
- Tapping into each other's resources
- Goal setting and accountability
- Enabling more business

The Meetup is sponsored by MMS Edinburgh and meets above Skyscanner at Quartermile One

Bring your lunch...

Tue 9th Sep 2014 12:00pm (Europe/London)

Tue 9th Sep 2014 2:00pm (Europe/London)

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Europe/London

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Heroic Entrepreneurs Open Meetup

No one is better qualified than entrepreneurs who have personally grown their own businesses to inspire and guide you to success; to recommend resources and answer questions on critical issues. Talk to any seasoned entrepreneur and they'll tell you - "Don't go it alone; find people you can confide in".

Consequently, this meetup's purpose is to bring entrepreneurs, founders and CEO's of different types of startup together to empower and inspire each others success by:

- Learning from each other's experiences
- Developing relationships with peers
- Focusing on common challenges
- Tapping into each other's resources
- Goal setting and accountability
- Enabling more business

The Meetup is sponsored by MMS Edinburgh and meets above Skyscanner at Quartermile One

Bring your lunch...

Tue 12th Aug 2014 12:00pm (Europe/London)

Tue 12th Aug 2014 2:00pm (Europe/London)

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Heroic Entrepreneurs Open Meetup

No one is better qualified than entrepreneurs who have personally grown their own businesses to inspire and guide you to success; to recommend resources and answer questions on critical issues. Talk to any seasoned entrepreneur and they'll tell you - "Don't go it alone; find people you can confide in".

Consequently, this meetup's purpose is to bring entrepreneurs, founders and CEO's of different types of startup together to empower and inspire each others success by:

- Learning from each other's experiences
- Developing relationships with peers
- Focusing on common challenges
- Tapping into each other's resources
- Goal setting and accountability
- Enabling more business

The Meetup is sponsored by MMS Edinburgh and meets above Skyscanner at Quartermile One

Bring your lunch...

Tue 10th Jun 2014 12:00pm (Europe/London)

Tue 10th Jun 2014 2:00pm (Europe/London)

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Europe/London

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Heroic Entrepreneurs Open Meetup

No one is better qualified than entrepreneurs who have personally grown their own businesses to inspire and guide you to success; to recommend resources and answer questions on critical issues. Talk to any seasoned entrepreneur and they'll tell you - "Don't go it alone; find people you can confide in".

Consequently, this meetup's purpose is to bring entrepreneurs, founders and CEO's of different types of startup together to empower and inspire each others success by:

- Learning from each other's experiences
- Developing relationships with peers
- Focusing on common challenges
- Tapping into each other's resources
- Goal setting and accountability
- Enabling more business

The Meetup is sponsored by MMS Edinburgh and meets above Skyscanner at Quartermile One

Bring your lunch...

Tue 8th Jul 2014 12:00pm (Europe/London)

Tue 8th Jul 2014 2:00pm (Europe/London)

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Europe/London

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Heroic Entrepreneurs Open Meetup

No one is better qualified than entrepreneurs who have personally grown their own businesses to inspire and guide you to success; to recommend resources and answer questions on critical issues. Talk to any seasoned entrepreneur and they'll tell you - "Don't go it alone; find people you can confide in".

Consequently, this meetup's purpose is to bring entrepreneurs, founders and CEO's of different types of startup together to empower and inspire each others success by:

- Learning from each other's experiences
- Developing relationships with peers
- Focusing on common challenges
- Tapping into each other's resources
- Goal setting and accountability
- Enabling more business

The Meetup is sponsored by MMS Edinburgh and meets above Skyscanner at Quartermile One

Bring your lunch...

Tue 8th Apr 2014 12:00pm (Europe/London)

Tue 8th Apr 2014 2:00pm (Europe/London)

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Heroic Entrepreneurs Open Meetup

No one is better qualified than entrepreneurs who have personally grown their own businesses to inspire and guide you to success; to recommend resources and answer questions on critical issues. Talk to any seasoned entrepreneur and they'll tell you - "Don't go it alone; find people you can confide in".

Consequently, this meetup's purpose is to bring entrepreneurs, founders and CEO's of different types of startup together to empower and inspire each others success by:

- Learning from each other's experiences
- Developing relationships with peers
- Focusing on common challenges
- Tapping into each other's resources
- Goal setting and accountability
- Enabling more business

The Meetup is sponsored by MMS Edinburgh and meets above Skyscanner at Quartermile One

Bring your lunch...

http://www.meetup.com/HeroicEntrepreneurs/

Tue 11th Mar 2014 12:00pm (Europe/London)

Tue 11th Mar 2014 2:00pm (Europe/London)

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