Published on June 23rd, 2016 | by admin
0Realized training: “How to finance your idea in 7 days or less?”
On 18.06.2016 in Hotel Kapri – Bitola, CEFE Macedonia and the Regional Economic Chamber based in Bitola, organized one-day training on “How to get to the money for your idea for 7 days and less?”. The main topic of the training was alternative sources of financing, which are becoming more important for the implementation of each (business) idea.
Trainer was Sam Vaknin, entrepreneur, writer and co-owner of several foreign companies from the financial, economic analyst, a former economic adviser to governments and multinational companies on 3 continents, including the Macedonian Government and the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Macedonia.
This training was one of a kind in Macedonia and maybe wider, that is why over 90 people from all over the country participated. On the training participated entrepreneurs, business owners, students, employees of state institutions, professors, staff and members of NGOs, civil associations, unemployed.
Sam Vaknin unreservedly presented to the participants, 30 alternative models of financing startups, small businesses, family businesses as crowdfunding, business angels, accelerators, innovation funds, European funds venture capital, etc.
The emphasis of the training was put to crowdfunding as one of the fastest growing models of access to investment capital. As a relatively new term in the last two years has seen a swing, in the 2015 trend of development as the level of industry. Total global crowdfunding industry in the estimated amount of fundraising in 2015 is approximately US $ 34 billion of which:
- P2P or direct financing of 25 billion US $
- Awards and donations from crowdfunding 5,5 billion US $
- Equity crowdfunding 2,5 billion US $
The participants, from this training, got information for over 30 classical sources of funding, knowledge how to use these resources, how to prepare an application and preparation of their projects, motivation and proactive in the use of these funds.