Starting your Startup

Part 2 - Preparing a Business Plan to Raise Capital

Gowlings is very pleased to host “Starting Your Start-Up”, The Ottawa Network monthly event stream that combines a quality networking opportunity with practical advice and insights from industry leaders and subject matter experts.  Starting Your Start-Up focuses on the business basics including financing, team formation, product development, and sales and marketing, that are the foundation for launching and building a successful start-up in these promising and challenging times.

In Part 1 of our seminar series on business plans, “The Business Plan You DON’T Take To The Bank”, we discussed how a business plan can be used to help your Company stay focused on primary business objectives and to operate more efficiently.  Part Two of the series will focus on the role of the Business Plan when your start-up is raising Capital.

Our panel for the Feb 9th event will consist of experts on various sources of capital, including: Senior and Subordinate Debt (working capital loans, asset financing etc), Government (OCE, IRAP etc) and Equity (Convertible Debt, Preferred Shares etc).  The panel will be moderated by Anil Dilawri of Hill and Knowlton.

Full event details and guest speaker bios can be found at http://www.theottawanetwork.com/tontuesday9feb10/

While this is event is provided at no charge to members of The Ottawa Network, we ask that you register online by selecting one of the tickets at the top of this page.

Complimentary refreshments provided by Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP.