One Day Seminar: Financing Your Natural or Specialty Products Company

Getting your company capitalized is perhaps the most difficult, time-consuming and frustrating part of building your business.

On November 10, Bob Burke and I will be leading an important one-day seminar on how to raise capital for your natural or specialty products company. It will be a packed, full-day seminar from 9am-4:30pm in Burlington, MA (easy shuttle from Logan Airport in Boston). We'll have a lot of important content to share and we're putting together an impressive group of speakers, including industry-leading entrepeneurs who raised venture captial and then grew and sold their companies, investment bankers, investos and other industry experts.

Confirmed speakers as of 9/22 include:

• Pete Lescoe, Founder and CEO, FoodShouldTasteGood (funded by Sherbrooke Capital)
• Nancy Rosenzweig, Former CEO, The Natural Dentist (funded by Burrill & Co., and others)
• Nicholas McCoy, CFA, Managing Director, Silverwood Partners Investment Bankers
• David Thibodeau, Managing Director in Canaccord Adams' Investment Banking Group.
• Andrew Whitman, Managing Partner, 2x CONSUMER PRODUCTS GROWTH PARTNERS

WITH MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON….

To sign up, please go here.

Topics to be covered include:

• How do I determine my financing needs?
• What is the best source of capital to align with my needs?
• What’s the game plan for my business and my time horizon?
• Finding early-stage capital (Friends & Family; Banks/Loan; Angel Investors/Groups; What terms should I expect?)
• Demystifying valuation (Methodologies; Understanding equity; What matters/what doesn’t?
• VC Financing (Who do I approach? And how?; Anatomy of a term sheet; What to expect when working with a VC; Control, veto rights, dilution
• Other Private Equity…
• Do I go alone or get professional help?
• Role of the investment banker (Terms, fees; Materials (business plan, sample presentation, financials)
• Creating value (Distribution; Brand Building; Building out the team; Positioning for exit; Strategic buyer or financial buyer)

Led by industry veterans Bob Burke & Michael Burgmaier, the seminar will de-mystify the terms and the process and provide insights and tips on how you can improve your odds to successfully obtaining the financing you need.