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Financing Your Natural or Specialty Products Company
Nov 10, 2009
Hilton Garden Inn
Burlington, MA
Bob Burke
p. 978-975-9902
BBurke@NPCInstitute.com
http://npcinstitute.com/Financing%20seminar.htm
Getting your company capitalized is perhaps the most difficult, time-consuming and frustrating part of building your business. This full day workshop will serve to demystify the terms and the process and provide insights and tips on how you can improve your odds of successfully obtaining the financing you need. In addition, you will hear directly from industry-leading entrepreneurs who raised venture capital and then grew and sold their companies, investment bankers, investors and other industry experts.
Topics include:
- determining your financing needs
- expected presentation materials
- structuring deals
- understanding term sheets
- issues and trade offs pertaining to friends and family rounds, angels, debt, and venture capital
- working with investment bankers
- building value in your company
- valuation methodologies
- exit strategies
- and more.
The seminar will be led by Bob Burke and Michael Burgmaier. Bob Burke is co-author of The Natural Products Field Manual, and The Sales Manager’s Handbook. Bob is a consultant in the natural and specialty products industry and former VP of Sales and Corporate Development at Stonyfield Farm. Michael Burgmaier is an investment banker (Silverwood Partners), consultant (Royal River Associates) and venture capital investor (CEI Community Ventures) in the food & beverage/ Healthy Living sectors.
Special guest speakers will be Pete Lescoe, Founder and CEO, Food Should Taste Good, Nancy Rosenzweig, former CEO, The Natural Dentist, Nicholas McCoy, CFA, Managing Director, Silverwood Partners Investment Bankers, David Thibodeau, Managing Director in Canaccord Adams' Investment Banking Group and Andrew Whitman, Managing Partner, 2x CONSUMER PRODUCTS GROWTH PARTNERS
The seminar will be held on November 10, 2009 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Burlington, MA. The special introductory rate is $599. But if you register by October 27, 2009, take the early bird discount and save $100. Additional discounts are available for additional people from the same company.
For more information, please visit: http://npcinstitute.com/Financing%20seminar.htm to see the registration form. You are also welcome to call 978-975-9902 or email: BBurke@NPCInstitute.com.
