Today, starting, or building a business often means having to develop presentation skills, sales skills and becoming hyper proficient in self-promotion.

As a result, entrepreneurs find themselves needing to learn and improve on a wide range of ‘soft-skills’ that stand between them and access to the funds they need to take their ventures forward.

This practical workshop addresses many of the challenges that you may face as an entrepreneur seeking funding, and covers:

• Goal setting
  
• Verbal pitching strategies
  
• Creating a quality slide deck
  
• Different types of slide deck, and understanding what to include
  
• Common mistakes, and dos and don'ts
  
• Insights into investors and their mindsets
  
• Locating investors
  
• Fundraising in a COVID-19 climate
  
• Resources, examples, true stories, and tips!
  

The workshop will be run by an entrepreneur who has been a judge at both local and national start-up competitions, so be sure to bring your questions!

About your speaker:

Kay Kukoyi CSM FITOL is a software delivery specialist, global tech startup mentor, author, speaker, and lecturer. She has written five books for SMEs and entrepreneurs, including the Amazon international bestseller, Don't Hire a Software Developer Until You Read this Book.

Kay regularly gives talks, sits on panels, and judges at startup competitions, and has been recognised by the Financial Times and Inclusive Boards as one of the 100 Most Influential BAME Leaders in the UK Technology Sector. Kay is the founder and CEO of Purposeful Group, and Tech Startup Academy™ - a community and centre for learning which has served entrepreneurs on five continents, providing books, mentoring, workshops, and programmes that support tech startup founders around the world as they build their businesses from scratch.

About the BIPC

Don’t forget we have over £5m worth of online market reports from top publishers Mintel, Frost & Sullivan, Euromonitor amongst others, company data for over 144 million UK and global companies, over 60 million patents and more. With a Reader Pass you can access all of these resources for free before or after your workshop (or in the break if you can’t keep away!) and get your business ahead of the competition.