The ultimate checklist to prepare your business for investment

“A brand is really important in food, but it’s not the only thing.”

—Tera Johnson, Food Finance Institute

Highlights:

• Know the fundraising gauntlet and survive it with this checklist.
• You need an investable business model; pitch it, not your brand.
• Create a Dropbox and include the items included in presentation (and the download below).
• The number you need to know: cash at the end of the period.
• The credibility killers you need to avoid.
• Why you need a board of directors.
• Why you still need a working line of credit.
• Yes, you need to do all this legal stuff, too.

This Nutrition Capital Network (NCN) Funding Forum session—Getting Your Act Together: What it Really Takes to Successfully Fund Your Natural Products Company—was recorded at Natural Products Expo West 2019.