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Financing and Pitching Your Venture
Format: Babson On-Demand™
The Financing and Pitching Your Venture certificate equips entrepreneurs with the essential skills to secure the right funding and pitch their ventures with confidence. This program covers key areas such as understanding capital types, evaluating business value, and mastering the art of pitching—all critical elements of venture success.
You will learn how to assess various financing options, understand investor perspectives, and develop data-driven fundraising strategies tailored to your business. The program also focuses on crafting powerful, clear pitches that effectively communicate your venture’s value to potential investors and partners.
By the end of the certificate program, which includes three distinct badge courses, you will have the tools to navigate funding decisions, articulate your venture’s potential, and secure the resources necessary for growth, all while developing the communication skills to pitch effectively in any context.
- Understand the different types of capital and how they impact your business’s financial structure and long-term growth strategy
- Evaluate funding options through the lens of investor expectations, business model alignment, and financial leverage
- Learn to assess your venture’s fit for angel investors, venture capital, and other sources of financing
- Develop a data-informed fundraising strategy that reflects your company’s valuation, risk profile, and growth potential
- Gain insight into how investors analyze and value businesses to structure deals and make funding decisions
- Master the art of crafting and delivering a compelling pitch tailored to diverse audiences and business scenarios
- Build a versatile “Rocket Pitch” to clearly communicate your venture’s value in high-stakes, time-sensitive settings
- Aspiring entrepreneurs with a new venture or entrepreneurial idea
- Entrepreneurs who want to take their business to the next level
- Executives looking to grow their entrepreneurial mindset to innovate in their current role
- Professionals looking to expand their skill set across industries and functionalities
- Recognition and Credentialing: A digital certificate that serves as verifiable proof of learning and achievement, which can be displayed on platforms such as LinkedIn and included on your resume and portfolio
- Course Content and Learning Outcomes: You gain industry-relevant knowledge, practical skills, and frameworks designed for professionals seeking career advancement or specialization
- Flexibility: Our self-paced digital courses allow flexibility for busy executives and professionals
- Expert Instruction: Experienced faculty, industry leaders, and professionals with real-world expertise teach our courses
- Networking Opportunities: You gain access to a network of peers, alumni, and industry professionals.
- Assessments and Engagement: To earn a credential for completing this course, you must complete assignments, quizzes, case studies, and/or interactive projects
Upon completion of this series of courses you will earn a digital certificate.
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Alisa Jno-Charles
Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship
Professor Alisa Jno-Charles has more than a decade of finance and entrepreneurship experience. Her research centers on parenting future entrepreneurs, family business, and entrepreneurial communication. Her professional career spans private equity investment, hedge fund trading, real estate financing, and business intelligence systems design and product management. Alisa's entrepreneurial experience ranges from building ventures in the peer-to-peer to business software spaces.
Smaiyra Million
Industry Fellow, Babson Executive Education
Smaiyra Million is an experienced CEO, investor, and advocate for advancing the entrepreneurial ecosystem. She spent thirty years as a successful operator of luxury hotels, spas, and health clubs. As CEO of Millennium Partners Sports Club Management, she was named to the Top 100 Women Led Businesses in Massachusetts in 2011, 2012 and 2013. In 2014, she was inducted into the YW Academy of Women Achievers. She is the former executive director of the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College.
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