Mastering Venture Capital
We partner with top venture partners & credited institutions around the world to offer intensive investor education programs for aspiring angels and venture capitalists.
Mastering Venture Capital
We partner with top venture partners & credited institutions around the world to offer intensive investor education programs for aspiring angels and venture capitalists.
Who fit this
Anyone who wants to discover and master venture investment
ANGEL INVESTORS
Who want to increase management capacity and effective investment
PROFESSIONALS
Who work for VC or being advisors
TRADITIONAL INVESTORS
Start-ups are very differently from traditional investments. Learn to avoid the mistakes many new investors make when investing in start-ups.
ENTREPRENEURS
Lack of knowledge of how VC work can result in failed fundraising or in bad deals for start-ups. Learn to creating value your company like investors will do.
What will you learn
Over the past 30 years, venture capital has been a vital source of financing for high-growth start-ups. Venture capital has become an essential driver of economic value. The first module helps to pull the curtain back and make you understand what VCs actually do and how they create value
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- The basic root of VC philosophy
- What to expect as a VC/Angel Investor
- The key stakeholders
- The VC job cycle
- Careers in VC world
In the second module, we cover areas related to establishing a venture capital fund: from defining your thesis to successfully creating the fund’s legal structure. Our goal is to make you better at understanding your unique value proposition, formulating your investment strategy. We help you understand the VC landscape in Asia and help you find your spot in the start-up financing value chain.
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- Building investment thesis
- Creating fund strategy
- Understanding fund legal and financial structure
- VC Fee Structure
The goal of the third module is to make you understand the core of VC investment activities as well as show you the methods to find and select companies that fit your investment strategy and make up for your desired portfolio.
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- How do VC invest?
- Prepare a due diligence process
- What do you expect when investing as a VC?
- Term Sheet Highlights
- The Case of Convertible Note
A typical VC fund has a life of up to 10 years. A lot can happen in a decade, and you can’t avoid every threat. However, with proper business and financial planning as well as risk mitigation practices, you can come prepared to the battlefield. In the forth module, you learn both about the front-end as well as the back-end of the VC business. We discuss value-creation strategies to grow your portfolio
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- How to grow your portfolio companies as a VC?
- Follow-On Rounds
- Capital Reserve
- Dilution
If investments are a VC’s bread-and-butter, exits are the business’ holy grail. During the final module, we discuss the importance of exit planning, discover various exit paths, and talk about current market trends. To help you choose the right exit strategy for your portfolio companies, we also present best practices and failures to avoid.
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- Choosing the right exit strategy for VC firms
- Understanding current exit landscape
- Acquisitions
- Initial Public Offering
- Return the Fund
What can you gain
This sharing is not about passive learning. Participants will be hands-on and will be equipped with a toolkit that they can apply and the network to stay in beyond the program.
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5 sessions corresponding to 5 modules designed logically, explaining the life cycle of Venture Capital
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Original articles & free resources for reading
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Interactive valuation case-study exercise
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Chat with Venture Partner from series Etalk Adventure to the venture
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Staying in the loop of a growing investor network
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Essential templates take away such as term sheet, investment contract, due diligence checklist
Know your instructors
Tien Nguyen
ANGEL INVESTOR IN INNOVATION-BASED VENTURES CO-FOUNDER OF EARTH VENTURE CAPITAL & WIZIIN INC.
Tien Nguyen is an angel investor and venture capital fund manager with many years of experience in fund operations in Ireland and Europe. Tien’s interests are technology-intensive, renewable energy, biotechnology and new materials. He is also a serial entrepreneurial experienced in education technology, digital loyalty program, IT outsourcing, renewable energy, IOT and biotech.
At the same time, he is the Co-Founder of Wiziin Inc.,and Earth Venture Capital.
He graduated with a Master’s degree from National University of Ireland, majoring in Strategy under the Irish Government’s Full Fellowship program. He participated as a guest lecturer and studied Business Strategy at Grenoble University and Tsinghua University (Beijing).
Our partcipants’ experiences
speak for themselves
As the General Manager of a startup/SME, I consider VVCP to be successful as a deep and practical knowledge sharing program that is suitable for many audiences at different levels. Thanks to VVCP, I can see a big picture for my company’s timeline in the next 5 years.
Anyone, no matter what team or position, when they see themselves in the middle of the big picture, will help that business, and that individual, go faster.
So I highly recommend this course for those of you who are at the CEO level, founders, and seniors who want to grow further in venture journey
Our partcipants’ experiences speak for themselves
As the General Manager of a startup/SME, I consider VVCP to be successful as a deep and practical knowledge sharing program that is suitable for many audiences at different levels. Thanks to VVCP, I can see a big picture for my company’s timeline in the next 5 years.
Anyone, no matter what team or position, when they see themselves in the middle of the big picture, will help that business, and that individual, go faster.
So I highly recommend this course for those of you who are at the CEO level, founders, and seniors who want to grow further in venture journey
The experts who is with us
The experts
who is with us
BRENDAN MCKITTRICK
CHAIRMAN AT HBAN, DUBAI
35 years of experience in many roles in two dozen countries, in both large corporations and self-started entrepreneurial ventures, and loves experiencing the cultural diversity due to his travels.
PATRICK VERNON
DIRECTOR OF VENTURE INITIATIVES AT UNC | KENAN-FLAGLER
20 years of teaching venture capital and entrepreneurial strategy, also author of best book of VC called “Venture Capital Strategy: How to Think Like a Venture Capitalist”
JOHN PHELAN
NATIONAL DIRECTOR HBAN
20+ years experience in venture investment with over €125m invested directly in Ireland, UK & USA
DAVID GALIPEAU
FOUNDING PARTNER AT SDGX
35 years veteran of a hybrid business commercial career within the finance, publishing, and digital technology in Canada, Europe and Asia both as a corporate executive, dotcom entrepreneur and social business innovator.
AMIR WEITMANN
MANAGING PARTNER OF CHAMPEL CAPITAL
10+ years working in venture investment and his VC owns 2 unicorn exit
KEVIN RYAN
DIRECTOR, ASEAN AT ENTERPRISE IRELAND
Highly motivated, results-driven senior business development manager with 20+ years experience in B2B and B2C service companies.