10 Ways to Launch Your Concept and Raise Money for Your Business

You’ve got a great idea for a new business, but you need to figure out how to fund it. This list will teach you how to launch your concept and raise money in 10 steps.

1. Make sure you can show evidence of a team that has experience in your niche. If that’s not you, find some advisors.

2. Define a clear vision and value proposition that will give your concept a unique position within the market

3. Run some marketing campaigns to get people to express interest in your concept, BEFORE anything is built (This is crucial evidence to investors that your concept is what the market wants/needs)

4. Build partnerships (agreements in principle) with people/businesses who can quickly get your concept to the audience you’re targeting.

5. Write a clear business plan that covers how you will launch the business and get your first customers in the short term, and how you will grow it in the long term.

6. Produce financial projections that include a 5-year P&L, balance sheet and cash flow mapping out the business plan in financial terms.

7. Create a 15–20 slide investor pitch that outlines a top-level overview of the concept and a top-level plan. Make sure investors can understand your business in…