Get Funded
A Beginner's Guide to Fundraising Basics
Learn how to raise money for your business, from an expert fundraiser, while receiving answers to your basic fundraising questions and generating the materials you'll need.
Your Instructor
Samira Salman is the COO of a single family office based in Lancaster, PA; sits on the finance committee of the family foundation, and runs an advisory firm that works with private capital (family offices and high net worth individuals) to make direct investments into private companies. Additionally, Samira speaks globally on direct investments and fundraising and is a professor at LSU Law School teaching a course she developed entitled Building Your Business and Your Brand. She is a former corporate tax attorney, was in-house counsel at Shell Oil Company, and was the vice chair of the American Bar Association Energy and Environmental Taxes committee. She grew up in the Middle East and Europe, graduated from boarding school in Switzerland, has a BS and JD from LSU and an LL.M. in Taxation from University of Houston. She splits her time between Houston and New York and travels globally for work.
Course Curriculum
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StartWho Controls the Money? (0:25)
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StartWhat is an Angel Investor? (0:43)
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StartWhat is Venture Capital? (0:44)
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StartShould I Avoid Venture Capital? (0:28)
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StartWhat is Crowdsourcing? (1:08)
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StartShould I Ask Friends and Family? (0:49)
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StartWhat if I Don't Have a Wealthy Network? (0:35)
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StartWhat are the Benefits of a Pitch Competition? (0:53)
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StartHow Receiving Feedback can be a Game Changer (1:28)