Course Description

HOW CAN THIS COURSE HELP YOU?

This course, is designed to help you Tell Your Startup Story!  Whether you are planning to raise money from investors, or are looking at funding alternatives such as crowdfunding, bootstrapping or pursuing grant funding you still need to tell your compelling startup story. 

This course gets you behind the scenes with an experienced entrepreneur, coach and mentor so you better understand, how to communicate your startup vision up front to partners, customers, potential employees as well as financial and busines partners. 

Don't kid yourself, many entrepreneurs fail in their attempts to build their startup, even if they have a great concept, strong team and are willing work hard.  Why? Many times it's because they don't know what they don't know, and they fail to tell their story in a clear and compelling way.  Don't let that be you!

The first job of an entrepreneur is to attract the resources they need, this course can help you get there.

For Serious Entrepreneurs who sign up during our Launch Period, the course price is $100 off  the regular price!  For the discounted price of only $299, you get over 2 hours of content to help you Tell Your Story with insights from an experienced entrepreneur who has raised millions of dollars!  After the launch period, the course will go back to its regular $399 price.

If you complete this course, you will better understand how to tell your startup story in a clear and compelling way.  You will be able to develop all the tools you need, right alongside the tutorials including an elevator pitch, email pitch, executive summary and pitch deck.

If you are planning to enroll in one of our "Designing the Perfect Investor" courses for entrepreneurs planning to raise funds from investors, the content in Tell Your Startup Story is largely duplicated in Designing the Perfect Investor, so we recommend just signing up for one of the Designing Courses.

President & CEO and co-Founder, Enclavix, LLC, Creator of AI-Powered VentureWrench Startup Coaching Community, Private Company Board Member, Serial Entrepreneur, Innovator, Capital Coach, Successful Fundraiser

Nicole Toomey Davis

Nicole Toomey Davis is President & CEO of Enclavix, LLC, creators of VentureWrench.com, a free online application that uses artificial intelligence to curate the most useful resources for entrepreneurs. Ms. Davis is a serial entrepreneur who has raised millions of dollars from angel and VC investors as well as over $1.2 million in funding from the NSF SBIR program.  She has mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs and spent 6 years running a grant funding program for the State of Utah to help bring to market some of the state's most advanced technologies. Ms. Davis blogs at Notes.Venturewrench.comThis course is an extension of a presentation she has been asked to give to many groups of entrepreneurs to help level the playing field with investors! Ms. Davis holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is a published author, with both textbook contributions and press articles to her credit, and is frequently called upon to speak at industry events and has been recognized by her peers with many industry awards.  

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Chapter 1 Introduction to Telling Your Story

    • Introduction to Telling your Story

    • How Can this Course Help You?
  • 2

    Chapter 2: Background - Tools of the Trade to Tell Your Story

    • Background - Tools of the Trade to Tell Your Story
  • 3

    Chapter 3 Be In the Market

    • 3 Be In The Market

    • Where Are YOU In Your Market - SWOT Analysis
  • 4

    Chapter 4 Know Thyself

    • 4 KnowThyself

    • Know Thyself Handout
  • 5

    Chapter 5 Who are your Big Friends?

    • Who are Your Big Friends?
  • 6

    Chapter 6 Identify Your Theme

    • Thoughts on "Themes"

    • Identify Your Theme
  • 7

    Chapter 7 Explain Yourself - Overview of Tools of the Trade

  • 8

    Chapter 8 Tools of the Trade - Develop Your Basic Elevator Pitch

    • Develop Your Elevator Pitch

    • Your Turn Elevator Pitch Outlines
  • 9

    Chapter 9 Tools of the Trade - Elevate your Elevator Pitch!

    • Elevate Your Elevator Pitch
  • 10

    Chapter 10 Tools of the Trade - Execute an Amazing Executive Summary

    • Execute an Amazing Executive Summary
  • 11

    Chapter 11 Tools of the Trade - Batter Up for an Awesome Pitch Deck

    • Your Awesome Pitch Deck - Part 1

    • Your Awesome Pitch Deck - Part 2
  • 12

    Chapter 12 Finessing Your Financials

    • Comments on Financials

    • Tools of the Trade - Finessing your Financials
  • 13

    Bonus Content - Some Alternatives to Raising Money from Investors

    • Bonus Content - Alternatives to Investor Financing to Consider