📚 The Funding Club Training Curriculum

What You Will Learn

The Funding Club is a training and mentorship community. This is the curriculum, module by module.

Most founders are not short of ambition. They are short of the specific, unglamorous knowledge that separates a business a funder can back from one they cannot: how the model works, how the books are kept, how the story is told in a room, how the company is actually run day to day. That is what gets taught here.

The Modules

Module 1

Entrepreneurship Education

The foundations, taught properly, so that everything after this has something solid to sit on.

  • Testing whether an idea is a business or a hobby
  • Understanding who your customer actually is
  • Choosing a business model that can pay for itself
  • Pricing, margins and unit economics in plain language
  • Reading the market you are entering, and your competition in it
Module 2

Building A Business Others Can Back

The difference between a business that is running and a business that is legible to an outsider holding a cheque.

  • Registration, structure and the documents you will be asked for
  • Evidencing traction, even when the numbers are still small
  • Writing a business plan that a stranger can follow
  • Building the profile: website, deck, one pager, references
  • Common gaps that get applications set aside early
Module 3

How To Pitch An Investor

What to say, in what order, and how to hold your ground when the questions get sharp.

  • Structuring the story: problem, insight, product, market, ask
  • Building the deck slide by slide, and what each slide is for
  • Knowing your numbers cold before you walk in
  • Handling the hard questions and the ones you cannot answer
  • The follow up, the data room, and what happens after the room
Module 4

How To Run And Operate A Company

The day to day work of actually running the thing once it exists.

  • Hiring your first people, and what to do before you do
  • Setting up operations and simple processes that hold
  • Managing cash flow so the business survives slow months
  • Contracts, compliance and staying on the right side of the law
  • Leading a small team, and the habits that keep it together
Module 5

Money, Records And Reporting

The paperwork nobody enjoys and everybody is judged on.

  • Bookkeeping basics and separating personal from business money
  • Building a budget and a simple financial forecast
  • The financial records funders and partners ask to see
  • Reporting on money you have received, and why it matters next time
  • Working with an accountant without being lost in the conversation
Module 6

Finding And Applying For Funding

How the funding landscape actually works, and how to move through it without wasting months.

  • The types of funding, and which ones suit which businesses
  • Where opportunities are published and how to track them
  • Reading eligibility criteria properly before you apply
  • Writing the application, and the parts people rush
  • What to do with a rejection, and how to apply again stronger

How It Is Taught

Live Sessions

Community training sessions you attend and can ask questions in, not a folder of videos.

Mentorship

Guidance on your own business from people who have been through the process.

Templates & Tools

Working documents you can adapt: plans, decks, budgets and application drafts.

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