My thoughts and techniques on fund-raising for social investment.

1. Fund.ATTRACTION
Sunit.Shrestha
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2. mySCORE
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3. Text-book
fund raising

4. Nice proposal
Find contacts (web
+ conference)
Send Wait Follow
Persist . Do it again.

5. tough luck :~)

6. Know thy need.

7. How much ?

8. For what ?

9. Really ?

10. Really ? Really ?
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11. Don’t raise fund you
don’t need. Period.

12. My funding maxim
There is no free money.
All investment come
with strings attached.

13. What do they WANT?

14. What do you HAVE to
give them ?

15. Really ? Really ?
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16. if u r wrong,
u r dead,

17. Bad name spreads like
wild-fire.

18. or... you might still
get LOTS and LOTs
of money.

19. BUT... doing
things that you
DON’T CARE.

20. at their mercy,
costing you
unrecoverable part
of your life-time.

21. Distraction
money
is evil.

22. Raising too much,
too soon, is also evil.
It kills startup’s
flexibility.

23. THINK IN-KIND

24. 1.
What CAN be done
without money ?

25. 2.
What CAN’T be done
without money ?

26. office space
computers
accounting
web sites
equipments
.....

27. Don’t only BEG,
think BARTER,
think PARTNERSHIP.

28. I’ve found that
30 - 70 % of start-up
cost can be done away.

29. Choose the right pots..
EQUITY
GRANT
Others
DEBT

30. Positioning

32. IMPACT
(tools..)

33. Logical Framework

34. SROI

36. Emerging field:
Creative
Finance for
development

37. Social
venture
capital

38. Aavishkaar 6M+ social venture
capital in India.
A-Goodwell 25M+ VC for MFIs
startups in India.
Calvert Social Investment Fund
20.4 M world-wide.
Thailand.. coming soon!

39. Social
investment
banking

40. ResponsAbility, 500M+ Switzerland
Bamboo Finance, Switzerland
IntelliCap, India

41. P2P
finance
kiva.org

42. Social
equity
market

43. Final thoughts

44. Nothing substitute
superior
performance