Speak the Language of Investors with Confidence
Build the financial literacy you need to manage your runway, prepare for fundraising, and have informed conversations with investors.
Back to HomeFrom Financial Uncertainty to Informed Decision-Making
This course helps you develop the financial skills that make the difference between hoping your numbers work out and knowing they do. You'll learn to think about your venture's finances like an investor would.
Financial Model Mastery
Build financial projections that stand up to investor scrutiny. You'll learn what metrics matter, how to model different scenarios, and how to present your numbers with confidence.
Fundraising Preparation
Understand what investors look for in financial documents and how to prepare materials that communicate your venture's potential clearly and compellingly.
Runway Management Skills
Learn to calculate and extend your runway, make informed decisions about resource allocation, and understand when and how much funding you need.
Investor Conversation Confidence
Walk into investor meetings prepared to discuss your financials knowledgeably. You'll understand the questions they'll ask and how to answer them effectively.
Financial Literacy Shouldn't Be a Barrier
Many founders find themselves held back not by their ideas or execution, but by gaps in their financial understanding. This is especially common for those with technical or creative backgrounds.
The Numbers Feel Intimidating
When investors start talking about burn rate, runway, and valuation, do you find yourself nodding along while not fully grasping the implications? Financial terminology can feel like a foreign language, and that disconnect can make fundraising conversations stressful rather than productive. You might understand your product deeply but feel less confident when the discussion turns to unit economics or cash flow projections.
Preparing for Fundraising Feels Overwhelming
You know you need investor-ready financial materials, but creating them feels like navigating uncharted territory. What should your projections show? How do you justify your assumptions? What level of detail do investors expect? Without guidance, it's easy to either oversimplify or get lost in unnecessary complexity. The fear of presenting numbers that don't make sense can delay your fundraising plans indefinitely.
Making Financial Decisions Without Complete Understanding
How long will your current funding last? When should you start fundraising for your next round? How much equity should you offer? These questions require financial literacy to answer well, and getting them wrong has real consequences. Many founders make critical financial decisions based on incomplete information or advice that may not apply to their specific situation. Having a solid grasp of your venture's finances helps you make choices that support long-term sustainability.
If these challenges sound familiar, you're not alone. Financial literacy is a learnable skill, and developing it can transform how you think about and manage your venture. This course was designed specifically for founders who want to strengthen this critical capability.
Building Your Financial Fluency Step by Step
This course breaks down startup finance into manageable components, teaching you not just what the numbers mean, but how to use them to make better decisions for your venture.
Financial Foundations
We start with the fundamentals, ensuring you understand basic accounting principles and financial statements in the context of early-stage ventures. You'll learn to read and interpret balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements, focusing on what matters most for startups rather than getting bogged down in corporate accounting complexity.
Financial Modeling Essentials
Learn to build financial models that project your venture's performance. We cover revenue forecasting, expense modeling, and how to create different scenarios that help you plan for various outcomes. You'll understand how to make reasonable assumptions and support them with data.
Runway and Burn Rate Management
Understand how to calculate and extend your runway, the most critical metric for early-stage startups. We cover burn rate analysis, cash flow management, and strategies for making your funding last longer while still making progress. This module helps you make informed decisions about when to hire, what to spend on, and when to start your next fundraise.
Fundraising Fundamentals
Learn about different funding sources, from bootstrapping to venture capital. We cover how much to raise, when to raise it, and what terms to expect. You'll understand cap tables, dilution, and how to think about valuation. Most importantly, you'll learn how to communicate your financial story to investors effectively.
Term Sheets and Deal Structures
Demystify term sheets and understand what you're agreeing to when you take investment. We cover key terms, what's negotiable and what's standard, and how different deal structures affect your venture long-term. You'll learn to read term sheets critically and know what questions to ask.
Key Metrics and Investor Reporting
Learn which metrics investors care about and how to track and present them. From unit economics to customer acquisition cost, you'll understand what these numbers reveal about your business and how to use them to tell your story. We also cover how to set up reporting systems that keep stakeholders informed.
Throughout the course, we use real examples and case studies. You'll see how other founders have approached these challenges, learn from their experiences, and apply the lessons to your own venture.
Duration: 8 weeks, with 3 hours of structured learning per week plus time for building your models.
How You'll Learn and Grow
We've structured this course to balance learning financial concepts with applying them directly to your venture.
Hands-On Model Building
Each week, you'll work on building or refining a component of your financial model. We provide templates and examples, but you'll customize everything for your specific venture. By the end of the course, you'll have a complete financial toolkit that you actually understand because you built it yourself.
Expert Review Sessions
Your instructor, who has extensive experience with startup finance and fundraising, reviews your models and provides specific feedback. This personalized guidance helps you identify areas for improvement and ensures your financials are sound before you share them with investors.
Practice Investor Conversations
We simulate investor meetings where you present your financials and field questions. This practice helps you get comfortable discussing numbers and builds confidence for real fundraising conversations. You'll learn what questions to expect and how to answer them effectively.
Peer Learning Community
Connect with other founders working on their financial literacy. Share approaches, discuss challenges, and learn from each other's experiences. Many participants find that seeing how others tackle similar problems helps them better understand the concepts.
By the end of the program, most participants describe feeling significantly more confident in financial discussions. The transformation often happens gradually—one week you're struggling with a concept, and by the next, it's become second nature.
The time commitment is similar to our other courses: around 6-8 hours per week including sessions and model-building work.
Investment in Financial Confidence
The financial skills you develop here will serve you throughout your entrepreneurial journey, from early fundraising through exit conversations.
Startup Finance Course
8-week intensive program focused on building practical financial skills for startup founders
What's Included
Long-Term Value
The financial literacy you develop in this course compounds over time. Whether you're raising seed funding now or planning a Series B in two years, these skills remain relevant. Many alumni report that their improved financial understanding helped them secure better terms, avoid costly mistakes, and make more informed strategic decisions.
The models and frameworks you build become tools you'll use throughout your venture's lifecycle, adapting them as your business evolves.
Flexible Arrangements
We understand that founders are managing budgets carefully. We're happy to discuss payment arrangements that work for your situation. Our goal is to remove barriers to this essential knowledge.
Next cohort begins: January 22, 2025 • Limited to 15 participants for detailed feedback
Results That Matter
This course has helped hundreds of founders develop the financial confidence they needed to move their ventures forward.
Practical Application
What makes this course effective is its focus on application. You're not just learning concepts—you're building actual financial tools for your venture. Every template, model, and framework you create is something you'll use beyond the course. Alumni often tell us that the models they built during the program became the foundation for their investor conversations and internal financial management.
Progress Tracking
Your progress is measured through the financial documents you create and your growing confidence in discussing them. We track your development through weekly assignments and practice presentations. By the final week, you'll present your complete financial story to the cohort and receive feedback from both instructors and peers.
Setting Realistic Expectations
This course provides you with financial literacy and tools, but it doesn't guarantee fundraising success—that depends on many factors including your business model, market conditions, and execution. What we can confidently say is that you'll be significantly better prepared for those conversations and more capable of managing your venture's finances effectively. The skills you develop here create a foundation for sound financial decision-making throughout your entrepreneurial journey.
Learning With Confidence
We want you to feel secure in this investment, so we've built in safeguards to ensure you're getting value.
Quality Commitment
After the first two sessions, if you feel the course isn't meeting your needs or expectations, we'll work with you to find a solution. This might mean adjusting our approach, switching to a different program, or discussing alternatives. We're committed to your learning, not just your enrollment.
Pre-Course Consultation
Before enrolling, schedule a conversation with us to discuss your current financial literacy level and what you hope to gain. This helps ensure the course is appropriate for where you are. If we think you'd be better served by different resources or a different timing, we'll tell you honestly.
Continued Resource Access
Financial needs evolve as your venture grows. You'll maintain access to course materials, templates, and the alumni community. As you encounter new financial questions or challenges, these resources remain available to support you.
We've taught this material enough times to know it works when applied thoughtfully. Our confidence comes from seeing founders transform their financial understanding and use that knowledge to advance their ventures. We're committed to providing that same value to you.
Your Path to Financial Confidence
Getting started is straightforward. Here's what comes next.
Initial Conversation
Contact us to arrange a discussion about your venture and financial learning goals. We'll assess whether this course aligns with your current needs and answer any questions you have about the curriculum or approach.
Enrollment and Setup
Once you decide to join, we'll provide enrollment details and send preparatory materials. These help you gather the information you'll need for building your financial models. You'll also receive access to the course platform and community.
Begin Building Your Financial Toolkit
Start the first session and begin developing your financial models. Each week builds on the previous one, so by week eight, you'll have a complete set of financial tools and the knowledge to use them effectively. The learning happens through doing, with guidance at every step.
The next cohort starts on January 22, 2025. We keep cohorts small (15 participants) to ensure everyone receives detailed feedback on their models. This personalized attention is essential for developing true financial literacy.
Questions about whether this course is right for your current stage? That's a great question to discuss during your initial consultation. We'll help you determine if this is the right time or suggest alternatives if it's not.
Build the Financial Skills Your Venture Deserves
Financial confidence doesn't come from avoiding the numbers—it comes from understanding them. Let's help you develop that understanding.
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