BOOK – ANGEL INVESTORS TO VENTURE CAPITAL – 10 SLIDES TO FUNDING SUCCESS

BOOK – ANGEL INVESTORS TO VENTURE CAPITAL – 10 SLIDES TO FUNDING SUCCESS

I pulled the trigger Monday morning on Amazon to Release my New Book:

“Angel Investors to Venture Capital: 10 Slides to Startup Funding Success: An Entrepreneurs Guide to Startup Fundraising”

Pre-Launch Day eBook purchasers will have the eBook automatically downloaded to their Kindle device on January 22, 2019.

For those unfamiliar, Amazon allows pre-sales on eBooks but not paperback books. I am releasing the paperback to be available simultaneously, but it may show up a day or two early or a day or two after. Amazon does not allow authors to set an exact paperback release date. I’d like to know more about why you want to sign up to buy my book during the pre-sales launch a few paragraphs later.

MY BACKGROUND:

I have been coaching entrepreneurs on how to raise investment from venture capitalists, angel investors, friends, and family for many years. This book is my way of reaching out to a larger audience around the world that I can reach through my 1-on-1 and group coaching. My goal with this book is to have a measurable impact on the success rate of entrepreneurs raising investment capital and for investors to save time with ill-prepared entrepreneurs.

I spent several months in 2018 doing my research and writing this book. As an entrepreneur and electrical engineer, I’m all about the process. I spent countless hours researching the best way to share my information in the book with entrepreneurs and investors and how to format the book for paperback and Kindle eBook printing correctly. This education was well worth the time, as I now have a documented process for writing and publishing paperbacks and eBooks. This will allow me to write and publish future books more quickly in this series and on other topics.

My expertise in writing this book comes from my 25+ years in Silicon Valley. My first company, which we started in 1983, went public in the middle of 1986. After that, I created several other ventures; in the last one, I led my team to raise over USD 87 million through three rounds of funding from prominent Silicon Valley Venture Capital firms.

THE BOOK:

The official book launch day is January 22nd!

The eBook version of “Angel Investors to Venture Capital: 10 Slides to Startup Funding Success: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Startup Fundraising” will officially be available on January 22nd. I chose January 22nd as my birthday, and in addition to the cruise my beautiful wife is taking me on, I wanted an easy day to remember this book launch.

The paperback version has 298 pages of education. In each chapter covering the ten slides, an entrepreneur will learn how to create each slide through words and images of good and bad pitch slide examples.

At the end of each chapter related to the ten-pitch slides, I include an executive summary and a slide creation checklist to make it easy to be sure that you don’t leave anything important out and to be sure that you are not tempted to add things you should not include on the slide.

Other chapters cover topics that include how to prepare for pitch events and investor 1-on-1 “first dates.”.

Throughout the book, I also include links to various websites that can provide additional helpful information. Some of these links are to my website. For those who want to save endless hours setting up a presentation template, I offer a set of templates for PowerPoint, Google Slides, and Apple Keynote. The templates follow everything I teach you in the book. Trust me, you’ll be glad you got these templates to help create a killer investor presentation.

To give you a better understanding of what you will learn in the book, here is the following:

Table of Contents:

● The 4 Stages of a Successful Business
● Other People’s Money
● Pitch Deck Construction Best Practices
● Slide 1 ― The Cover Slide
● Slide 2 ― The Problem Slide
● Slide 3 ― The Market Slide
● Slide 4 ― The Solution Slide
● Slide 5 ― The Traction Slide
● Slide 6 ― The Competition Slide
● Slide 7 ― The Monetization Slide
● Slide 8 ― The Financials Slide
● Slide 9 ― The Team Slide
● Slide 10 ― The Ask Slide
● The 3 to 10 Minute Investor Pitch
● Post Pitch Q&A Session
● The First-Date Pitch Follow-Up
● 2nd Date Thru Funding Close
● Your Frequently Asked Questions

That is a lot of material, but it covers all the key topics an entrepreneur and an investor should discover when looking to get or make a startup funding investment.

That’s right, this book is also written to help investors! How? Two ways.

First, they should make this book require reading and implementation before agreeing to meet with an entrepreneur to learn about their company. Investors who have been around the block a few times hate seeing the same mistakes made by entrepreneurs repeatedly.

Second, and more for angel investors, learn from this book what you should expect from entrepreneurs at the first, second, and third “dates.”. If an entrepreneur can’t give you excellent answers to all the questions my book suggests you should be asking, then the entrepreneur is likely not ready for your investment.

SPECIAL PRE-LAUNCH & 48-HOUR LAUNCH DAY PRICING:

This book covers all of the “guts” of what I teach in my $2500.00 1-Day Investor Pitch Coaching Course. Some said I should only sell this book for my coaching course. Well, I’m afraid I have to disagree. As I said earlier, I wanted to be able to reach out to everyone with this book.

The paperback version will have a regular price of $19.99 on Amazon.

The eBook version will have a regular price of $9.99 on Amazon.

So, for less than USD 20, you’re going to be able to learn from an entrepreneur whose companies raised over USD 100 million. You’re going to be educated on what I learned the hard way—without you making all the mistakes that I did. I got advice from venture capitalists on what they needed to know and what they didn’t want to hear about. I hope you’ll agree that this education is worth multiples of these prices.

But I will give you what will likely be a “one-time deal.”.

I will offer the eBook version at a ‘ridiculously’ low price to get the most robust launch possible.

SHHH – CLICK THIS LINK FOR DISCOUNT!  =  eBook Link

BUT ONLY FOR THE PRE-LAUNCH DAYS AND TWO DAYS FROM January 22nd through 23rd.

The paperback I am discounting to a meager price of:

SHHH – CLICK THIS LINK FOR DISCOUNT! =  Paperback Link

Plus, if you buy the paperback, you can download the Kindle version for only USD 0.99 directly from Amazon’s Free MatchBook program!

So, if you buy the paperback version, you’re getting nearly USD 30 worth of my book for under USD 16. That’s almost 50% off!

MY REQUEST:

All I ask in return for this incredible pre-launch and first 48-hour Launch Day discount is that you:

LEAVE ME A REVIEW ON AMAZON!

Book sales are heavily influenced by the total number of reviewers and the number of 5-star reviews.

Now I’m not asking you to leave me a 5-Star review – unless you think the book deserves it – But I’m hoping you will agree that it does!

Some of you may think I added more to this book. Well, if you are willing to email me at Ken@IdeaToGrowth.com, there’s a good chance I’ll include your ideas in the second or third book in the series. Please share your ideas, but please don’t take stars away because I stopped writing at just shy of 300 pages!

Thank you!

Kenneth Ervin Young

Entrepreneur, Business Coach & Author.

IdeaToGrowth.com