Ray WaliaCo-Founder and CEO of Launch Academy and Launch.vc

LAUNCH, FUND, AND GROW YOUR STARTUP IN 5 WEEKS!

Name: LAUNCH, FUND, AND GROW YOUR STARTUP IN 5 WEEKS!
Uploaded: 2017-01-08T09:12:49+00:00
Duration: 1 min 16 s
Channel: Ray Walia
Description: Ray Walia presents testimonials from founders in the Leap accelerator program. One founder raised their first funding round while still halfway through…

8 Jan 2017 · 1 min

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Ray Walia presents testimonials from founders in the Leap accelerator program. One founder raised their first funding round while still halfway through the five-week program. Speakers say Leap teaches technical founders how to build a business case and pitch to investors.

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You know, the ultimate goal of the Leap program is to get you and an investor together and to make sure that you don't waste a lot of time.
A LEAP is kind of like a foundation. It's kind of like building a house. You need a strong foundation before you go up.
Leap was. I honestly first thought I was just giving money away for something that was going to be over before I even blinked, but it was amazing. It was compressed and it taught me more than anything that I learned in school. And I focused on business cases and business plans. But this was a business case and business plan in one piece of paper. So for somebody starting a business, efficiency and not wasting time is the most important thing.
Or it's also a lot of developers have a lot of great ideas, but they don't have the pitching skills, they don't have the people skills. And I think that's also a nice thing is you also compliment two sides of it where you guys gave me the principles and the skill building of the business. You also help people who have great coding skills learn how to present themselves and gain money and actually create a company behind it as well.
I was only halfway in to Leap program and I got my first round.
Of investment to.
Say that, you know, Leap is directly responsible for my first round of investment and will probably be directly involved in my second round of investment.