HTE415
Demo Day Boot Camp
Faculty
Vladislav Poshmorga
Chief Investment Officer at SDVentures
Course length
Duration
Total hours
Credits
Language
Course type
Fee for single course
Fee for degree students
Skills you’ll learn
Overview
During this highly interactive course, students will present work they have done on the Capstone Project over the past year to an experienced VC investor. We expect students to have a prototype of the startup and a decent investor presentation ready by the launch date of the course. At the very least the project/idea should be sales-validated via customer interviews/discovery calls. In this course, students will be pushed to their limit as they prepare to raise Venture Funding.
Learning highlights
The objective of the course is to prepare the students for a proper Demo Day where student-built startups will be presented in front of investors, mentors, and the student body.
Course outline
13 classes
Course introduction
Formation of students’ venture funds
Effective fundraising for startups
Students’ presentations of the projects
(5 minutes each)
How the funds select and evaluate the projects. Funds/investors types
Students’ presentations of the projects (5 minutes each)
Defining the strategy and approach of students’ funds
Work in groups (investment committees)
Presentation of the students’ funds strategies
Selection of the projects by the funds
Investment projects’ presentations templates
(Examples of the successful projects)
Review of the projects together with the students’ venture funds
Presenting the Business model (Canvas)
Review of the projects together with the students’ venture funds
How to evaluate the deal. Looking from different perspectives
Review of the projects together with the students’ venture funds
Use of Scoring Model to evaluate the project
Review of the projects together with the students’ venture funds
Review of the projects in groups
Review of the projects in groups
14
Final Project Presentations (presenting your project to the venture funds)
Review of the course
Prerequisites
Two weeks prior to the beginning of the course the students should send to v.poshmorga@sdventures.com the short presentations of their projects. Ideally, the presentation should be no more than 5-6 slides.
Vladislav was CFO of public and private international companies in FinTech and FMCG sectors. He has more than 20 years of experience in investment banking and corporate finance gained at various international financial institutions and multinational corporations such as Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and Stolichnaya (SPI Group). For the last 5 years, he has worked as a CIO of a fund (www.sdventures.com) supervising the investments in different asset classes starting from venture to real estate and art.
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Demo Day Boot Camp
by Vladislav Poshmorga
Total hours
45 Hours
Dates
Aug 20 - Sep 07, 2018
Fee for single course
€1500
Fee for degree students
€750
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