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See below for the slides and/or recordings of previous Skills Lab sessions.
Winter - Spring 2025
Fundraising Process Overview
Creating a Winning Pitch Deck
Deal Structuring
Venture Debt
Financial Modeling 101
Financial Modeling 201
Business Due Diligence
Legal Due Diligence and Contracting
Fall 2024
Top 10 Security Threats Facing Startups and Proper Cybersecurity
6 Ways to Become the Employer of Choice
Understanding Your HR Options
Benefits Packages + R&D Tax Credit
Salary and Equity Options
Summer 2024
Advancing Climate AI
Cybersecurity
AI Tool Through a Climate Lens
Success Stories with NVIDIA
Fall 2023
Customer Discovery
Sales
Investor Readiness
HR and Compliance
Grant Writing
Spring 2023
Program Overview
Pilots and Demos
Utilities
Regulations and Government
Large Corporations
Winter 2023
Corporate Structure and Compliance
Anatomy of an Agreement
Preparing for Legal Due Diligence
Winter 2022-2023
Human Resources 101
Human Resources 102
Setting People Strategy Part 1
Setting People Strategy Part 2
Human Resources 201+
Spring 2022
Preparing to Fundraise
How Venture Capitalists Think
Workshop: How Venture Capitalists Think
The Fundraising Deck
Workshop: The Fundraising Deck
Financials 101*
Financials 201*
Due Diligence*
*Slide deck only
Fall 2021
What is Customer Discovery?
Interview Best Practices
Understanding and Avoiding Confirmation Bias
Customer Discovery Tools
Market Intelligence
Summer 2021
Basic Sales Techniques
CRMs and Other Management Tools
Complex Sales
Additional Sales Tools
Sales Recruiting and Compensation
Winter 2020-2021
Investor and Process Overview*
Term Sheets I: Convertible Notes*
Term Sheets II: Convertible Preferred*
Financial Modeling*
Due Diligence Preparations
Fall 2020
Federal Grants Overview and Finding Opportunities
Navigating Solicitations
Basics of Narrative and Budget