Boot Camps

Angel to Exit Boot Camps support companies and investors at different stages of their involvement.

  • Grow Your Company: Boot camps to help startup, emerging, venture, and exit level companies succeed.

  • Help Angel Investors: Boot camps to help investors make better investment decisions.

Boot Camps to Grow Your Company


"It was an outstanding experience and I would advise others to do it - Very beneficial to start-ups" - CEO from 2018-07

  • Startup Boot Camp: For companies just starting up and without substantial revenue. Helps you understand what it takes to succeed and get a solid initial understanding in place. More details.

  • First Sales Boot Camp: For companies with an initial viable offering trying to get their first sales and develop an early goto market plan. More details.

  • Emerging Company Boot Camp: For companies operating and with initial sales, seeking angel or similar funding to gain traction and fill a funding round. More details.

  • Due Diligence Boot Camp: For companies preparing for due diligence, building their deal room, and pitching to accredited investors. More details.

  • Market Enhancement Boot Camp: For companies with a substantial business working to rapidly enhance and expand their market. More details.

    Apply to a Boot Camp
    THE APPLICATION IS FREE
  • Venture Growth Boot Camp: Coming in 2019

  • Exit Boot Camp: Coming in 2019

Boot Camps to Help Angel Investors


"I wanted to make better decisions, and now I think I can" - Angel Investor from 2018-10


Startup Boot Camp

A2E's Startup Boot Camp provides a live online remote Business Assistance Program provided through videos, online systems, and live online mentor remote sessions to help early stage entrepreneurs accelerate investment and/or growth.

What's on the agenda?

  • Basics of your business

    • Business descriptions, problem and solution

    • Who sells what to whom and how? How do you fulfill?

    • How much does it cost and how much do you make how soon?

    • Getting from here to there

  • Your business over time

    • Adaption, scalability, and finding your niche

    • Who do you need and how do you get them?

    • How does the investor make money?

    • What's it worth and how do you sustain it?

  • Goto Market

    • Who are your customers?

    • The sales sieve and what customers cost

    • Your special sauce and what it gets you

    • Cost controls and metrics

  • Supporting structures and risks

    • R&D and Operations

    • Legal and regulatory issues

    • Insurance, instruments, and encumbrances

    • Risks today and how to bake them out

To join one of our upcoming Startup Boot Camp sessions, select the link below, fill out the form, and submit your application.

Apply to the Startup Boot Camp
THE APPLICATION IS FREE

After applications are processed, additional details will be provided to support and optimize your participation. Fees ($1600) will be charged only if accepted.

First Sales Boot Camp

A2E's First Sales Boot Camp provides a live online remote Business Assistance Program provided through videos, online systems, and live online mentor remote sessions to help companies with an initial offering gain early sales and build a viable initial marketing capability and plan.

What's on the agenda?

  • What are you offering and who are your customers?

    • What do you have to sell today?

    • What business problem does it solve?

    • Who are the likely customers?

    • What are their characteristics?

  • How will you price it and where will you sell it?

    • Where are your customers?

    • How will you get to them?

    • What is your pricing strategy?

    • How high and low can you go?

  • Getting some sales

    • Scoping out the market and selling a few

    • Your test market and gathering data

    • First sales and feedback

    • Rejiggering and focusing in

  • Building your initial goto market plan and sales

    • Getting others to sell it for you

    • Planning to accelerate from here

    • A path forward to growth

    • Where do you go from here?

To join one of our upcoming First Sales Boot Camp sessions, select the link below, fill out the form, and submit your application.

Apply to the First Sales Boot Camp
THE APPLICATION IS FREE

After applications are processed, additional details will be provided to support and optimize your participation. Fees ($2000) will be charged only if accepted.


Emerging Company Boot Camp

A2E's Emerging Company Boot Camp provides a live online remote Business Assistance Program provided through videos, online systems, and live online mentor remote sessions to help emerging companies with finished solutions and initial sales gain traction, obtain business viability, and secure early stage funding rounds.

What's on the agenda?

  • Basics of entrepreneurship

    • Your solution

    • Your customers

    • Market positioning

    • BRaSS Tacks (TM)

  • Building your company

    • Business excellence framework

    • Performance measurement

    • Business success criteria alignment

    • Organizational and individual assignment

  • Running your company

    • The continuous balancing act

    • Organizing for success

    • Business development methodology

    • Solution delivery methodology

  • Scaling your company

    • The global marketplace

    • Fundraising stages, options, and scenarios

    • How to get funded

    • BRaSS Tacks (TM) business plan and investor pitch

  • Next steps to becoming an Established company

To join one of our upcoming Emerging Boot Camp sessions, select the link below, fill out the form, and submit your application.

Apply to the Emerging Boot Camp
THE APPLICATION IS FREE

After applications are processed, additional details will be provided to support and optimize your participation. Fees ($2400) will be charged only if accepted.

Due Diligence Boot Camp

A2E's Due Diligence Boot Camp provides a live online remote Business Assistance Program provided through videos, online systems, and live online mentor remote sessions to help entrepreneurs prepare for due diligence, build their deal rooms, and perfect their pitches.

What's on the agenda?

  • Basics of due diligence

    • The process and how it works

    • The investor perspective

    • The company perspective

    • Meeting in the middle

  • Reasonable parameters

    • How far is far enough?

    • How fast is fast enough?

    • Investment instruments

    • Pricing strategies

  • Understanding and baking out risk

    • How risk progresses over time

    • Easy to fix risks

    • Unavoidable risks

    • The rest of the risks

  • The deal room and presentation

    • Building and fixing your deal room

    • Whatever they want - within reason

    • Pitching and what happens next

    • The odds and how to close the investment sale

To join one of our upcoming Due Diligence Boot Camp sessions, select the link below, fill out the form, and submit your application.

Apply to the Due Diligence Boot Camp
THE APPLICATION IS FREE

After applications are processed, additional details will be provided to support and optimize your participation. Fees ($3000) will be charged only if accepted.


Market Enhancement Boot Camp

A2E's Market Enhancement Boot Camp provides a live online remote Business Assistance Program provided theough videos, online systems, and live online mentor remote sessions to substantial operating companies improve their goto market plan and accelerate their growth.

What's on the agenda?

  • Basic drivers

    • Vision

    • Mission

    • Strategy

    • Core values

  • The Path Forward

    • Your customers

    • Direct Sales

    • Indirect Sales

    • Strategic Partners

    • Joint Ventures

    • M&A

  • Channel elements

    • Promotion

    • Programs

    • Sales programs

    • Competitive landscape

    • Business model(s)

  • The marketing mix

    • Positioning

    • Price

    • Place

    • Promotion

  • The sales sieve

    • Leads and qualifying them

    • Pitching and negotiations

    • Closing the sale, fulfillment, and time to money

    • Retaining and growing your customers

To join one of our upcoming Market Enhancement Boot Camp sessions, select the link below, fill out the form, and submit your application.

Apply to the Market Enhancement Boot Camp
THE APPLICATION IS FREE

After applications are processed, additional details will be provided to support and optimize your participation. Fees ($3600) will be charged only if accepted.


Angel Investor Boot Camp

A2E's Angel Boot Camp provides a live online remote 4-week Program to help accredited angel investors make better investment decisions.

What Angel Boot Camp provides:

Angel Boot Camp helps angel investors make better investment decisions. Specifically:

  • Basics of angel investing (week 1)

    • Historical statistics on angel investment and how to improve your odds

    • Why accredited and other sophisticated investors only?

    • Pitches and pitch sessions and defending yourselves against the startup sales pitch

  • Due diligence (week 2)

    • A systematic approach to due diligence

    • Due diligence in groups and what you bring to the startup

    • After they do their diligence, you better do yours

    • What do you really care about? Are you their hero?

  • Valuations (week 3)

    • How much is that company really worth?

    • Averages for investors and investments and ways to think about the value you get

    • The venture method of valuation

    • Independent evaluations and the problems they produce

  • Investment instruments and negotiations (week 4)

    • Debt and equity instruments and conversions

    • Why set the price now? SAFE notes and similar instruments

    • What can you negotiate for and what can you reasonably expect to get?

    • How do they have to use your funds? What if they don't? How do you know?

Apply to the Angel Boot Camp
THE APPLICATION IS FREE

After applications are processed, additional details will be provided to support and optimize your participation. Fees ($800) will be charged only if accepted.


We are not investment counselors, lawyers, or accountants.
Our information program does NOT provide legal advice, accounting advice, or investment advice regarding any specific investment opportunity or circumstance.
We are angel investors and business advisors with experience in angel investing, business advice for startups and operating companies, and related matters
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