1 Day Funding Attraction Workshop

Learn How To Attract Funding Like A Pro!

9 AM – 6 PM | SAT NOV 09

Seats are limited – booking required.

1 Day Funding Attraction Workshop

Learn How To Attract Funding Like A Pro!

9 AM – 6 PM | SAT NOV 09

Seats are limited – booking required.

1 Day Funding Attraction Workshop

Training to skyrocket your startup from zero to hero even if you’ve never run a business in your life

9 AM – 6 PM | SAT NOV 09

Seats are limited – booking required.

A ROCKET TO THE

Stars

Got big plans for your business?

Innovest’s Funding Attraction Workshop offers startups or established business owners seeking funding for their business a one day supersonic run-down to formulating their investment proposal.

This action-packed workshop condenses content from Innovest’s Accelerator program into a compilation of bite-sized sessions that fast-forwards your progress on the path to pitching your business as an attractive investment opportunity. This is suitable whether you’re looking for Equity Finance or presenting your vision to a lender, large client or for a partnering opportunity.

This Is For You If:

You are already seeking or will be seeking investment from an Angel investor or a VC in the next 24 months
You are currently applying or will be applying for a sizeable unsecured business loan from a bank or private lender
You are seeking to validate and set strong success foundations for your concept, idea or business restructuring decisions.
You are looking for guidance on a solid business planning and forecasting methodology to ensure your goals are achieved with the help of well founded business planning principles.
If you are looking to take advantage of a Government Grant and need to get your documentation in order before applying.

A Revolution In Entrepreneurship Is Underway

Got big plans for your business?

lnnovest offers practical and engaging programs to help grow your business faster.

Our Accelerator program is multi-faceted for early stage businesses or businesses going through a growth transition and requiring support to assess and validate the next stage in their development. No prior business experience is assumed.

A Taste Of Acceleration

This Workshop is a condensed portion of the Innovest Accelerator Program, which offers a challenging and comprehensive 3 month curriculum of business-building sessions designed to help entrepreneurs plan and start building every aspect of their business, from the core idea to the
product and revenue model.

Minimise your pains, magnify your successes and your learnings, fast-track your business growth and have more fun along the way.

The Investment Attraction Framework

You Will Learn

1. The Pitch

The 8 essential components of the perfect pitch and how to deliver it in the most attention-grabbing way possible

2. The Scale Formula

Using the Scale Formula (SSA+SDA) x SNP / CG = SSB to validate the scalability of the business and how to tweak it to ensure fast growth.

3. The Information Memorandum

Critical elements of creating a powerful and converting information memorandum

4. The Business Plan

Turning the idea into reality is a matter of setting a clear and executable business plan.

5. The Forecast

A plan of action is only a dream if it isn’t financially sustainable. Creating a well-developed cashflow forecast strengthens your proposal.

6. The Resources

You will receive examples and templates of: Pitch slide deck, Business plan, Cashflow forecast & Information memorandum

Case Study

Michel Nicholson

AUTOMATION SQUARED

An INNOVEST SME Start-up Accelerator Graduate

To help transform Michel’s start-up into reality, Michel applied for and was successful to enter the INNOVEST Accelerator Sweat Equity Program, which he considered “the first real step towards getting my new business to where I want it without shelling out a fortune”.

I can proudly say that whilst my business started prior to my involvement with Innovest my business really only became viable during the first 3 months of mentorship and implementation of the processes, methodologies and guidance of the Innovest Mentors. I had the basic ideas of how to run a business so I thought but when it came down to it I didn’t have a clue

During his time in Innovest’s extended Accelerator Program, Michel got his biggest client ever and “I got paid 50% in advance,

in fact a job so daunting that I needed advice on new areas of business I hadn’t even thought of like managing the project, preventing scope creep, contracting additional experts, t’s and c’s, etc. After that job and implementing the marketing strategies I learnt, my business got so busy I couldn’t handle the number of enquiries, quotations and execution.”

“To sum up my time during Accelerate, the program helped us in five ways: to re-shape the first version of the product offering; to frame our actual value and understand our main customer segment; to learn how to sell the solutions to the market place; how to talk to larger prospects, sell and close; and to plan the next 12 months of growth to ensure we don’t scale prematurely.

“I can proudly say that my ‘real business’ started at Innovest Accelerate … it was the place where I took my idea of a business and turned it into a valid and commercial enterprise.”

The start-up experience gives the participants a precious skillset that is transferable across different industries;

TRAINING

The Topics we have selected for the training are based on our extensive business experience. What you learn has a direct relationship with where you’re at now. No nonsense or overload of irrelevant information is forced on you. This stage of your business is the most important one where you put down the building blocks for your business. We give you all the tools to ensure that your effort, time and money are NOT going to be wasted making mistakes and that your path to success is CONSIDERABLY accelerated.

THE COMMUNITY

Apart from having a group of Startups in the same circumstances as you to share your experience with, lnnovest offers a Network of more than 40 of Professional Service Providers who have been tried and tested. We’ll hook you up with our trusted partners so you can get the preferential rates services without the stress of shopping around.

How will I benefit

TRAINING

THE COMMUNITY

Have a listen to these awesome people

Michel Nicholson
Automation Squared

“Innovest doesn’t provide your garden variety training and mentoring.The entrepreneurs and mentors in residence provide practical information and advice, which embody a ‘lean’ mantra. I have improved orders of magnitude each day. Just when you think you’re getting comfortable, these guys cough up confronting and challenging idea’s and IP and you improve by another order of magnitude.”

Hayder Shkara
Neat Law, Olympic Athlete 2013-2016

“When you first start working with Rick, you’ll immediately feel his contagious energy. Rick gave me advice that had an immediate impact on my business. Over the past months, his guidance has been critical to the growth of my firm. I’ve had plenty of sports coaches, so working with a business coach made perfect sense to me. I’m happy to say that it has definitely paid off!”

Veronica Avila
Co-owner, The Latin Store

“Rick helps us focus on what we’re good at, stay on course and implement new strategies, cut costs, and not make the same mistakes him himself made in his many businesses over the last thirty years. He’s also taught us about the importance of KPI’s and how to formulate internal systems to reduce my time in the business so I can spend more time ON the business.”

The Founders

Why Innovest Delivers Results?

Rick Chisholm

Tala Chisholm

We are Rick and Tala Chisholm, separate people, separate skill sets. We have founded and run over 35 small to medium businesses over the last 30 years. Between the two of us, the direct sales revenue has well exceeded $300 million.

Our experience spans across many differ industries including Education, Retail, Wholesale, Mentoring, Importing, Manufacturing, Installations, Hospitality, Franchising, Rental and e-commerce. If there was anyone that has tried and tested small business, it is us two!

We’ve been through the process of growing businesses from zero to $20mil over our entrepreneurial career in record time, If there’s anyone out there who understands how to invent and re-invent your business, it would be us.

We also have a large group of mentors with a great deal of experience in multiple specialties and industries to ensure you get sufficiently well-rounded feedback.