Start-up Financing for Fashion: Business Modelling, Development, & Funding

Expanding a fashion business is challenging. Unlocking a business’s potential relies on strong fundamentals, clarity in vision, and a healthy appetite for risk. Explore how to refine your value proposition, plan your go-to-market including internationalization, explore business models, and understand your capital needs. This seminar will address some of those meaty, lingering uncertainties so that you can plan your business’s next chapter of growth.

Key Takeaways

• Value Proposition- Customer Need, Target Market, Scalability
• Business Development - Market Sizing, Entry, Internationalization, Partners & Channels
• Funding – Scoping & Quantifying Raise, Investor Profiling

About the Speaker

Michael Schindler is passionate about building businesses and helping entrepreneurs at the intersection of consumer products, tech, data, and sustainability. With a background spanning Angel Investor & COO at tech start-up Pollen to numerous global roles at Levi’s, Michael has worn many hats and understands what it takes to for businesses big and small to succeed. Having worked and lived in the US, Europe and Asia, he’s keenly aware that nailing the right strategy, nurturing the right partners & teams, and adapting to local nuances is critical for success.