Jackpot!

Learn the Top Secrets & Strategies for Raising Funds for Any Business, Project or Cause

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What you will get from this book...

Facts, insights, strategies, and real-world examples

Understand how financing works

This book will help you have a better, deeper and rounded understanding of how the complex world of finance works and the top sources of funding that most successful entrepreneurs consistently use to raise funds for their businesses (including real-life examples).

Identify critical risks and red flags

You will learn how funding organisations assess risk before they invest in a business or project. Knowing this, you will be able to identify and fix the biggest risks and red flags in your business that could scare away potential investors from giving you money.

Avoid costly mistakes and missed opportunities

This book will help you become more strategic and intentional in how you raise capital, thereby avoiding most of the costly mistakes and nasty traps that many entrepreneurs blindly fall for in their quest to attract investors.

Improve and perfect your pitching skills

You will learn simple but effective techniques for selling your business, idea or project to potential investors in a variety of formats and in ways that grab their attention, make them listen to you, and increase the chance of getting their investment.

Craft professional and compelling proposals

This book will show you the cornerstone elements that make a proposal, business plan or pitch deck compelling to investors. You will learn how to craft documentation that address the critical information needs of a potential investor in your business or project.

Important extras to help along the way

This book comes with additional extras: resources and access that will help you make the most of your fundraising journey. If you plan to get the most out of this book, we STRONGLY recommend you get the extra resources that come with this book.

Finally, you can now read the most comprehensive guide ever written that addresses the most confusing and frustrating aspects of raising capital for a business, project, or cause.

Ignatius Duhu
PhD Candidate, Conventry University UK

“On behalf of all African entrepreneurs, I specifically want to thank you for the time and efforts you have put towards writing this unique book (Jackpot). You shared a massive wealth of extraordinary information in the book. I am hoping that millions of young readers will be able to purchase, read and most importantly act!”

The Extras that come with this book!

EXTRA 1

The Investment Readiness Checklist (IRC)

The Investment Readiness Checklist (IRC) is an important diagnostic tool that helps you to objectively audit your current situation and find out how ready you really are to raise capital from investors.

With over 60 investor-grade questions, this checklist will help you to avoid all the guesswork by showing you how investors are really going to assess your business as an investment opportunity. It will help you to identify the key strengths in your business that are favourable to investors, and the major weakness and gaps that could turn off investors and negatively affect your chances of raising capital.

The IRC also includes commentary, suggestions, and recommendations that will help you understand the rationale behind investors' questions and provides tips and advice that will help you close the gaps, improve your weaknesses and consolidate your strengths.

The Investment Readiness Checklist is a digital download that is only available to anyone who buys the Plus or VIP version of the book.

About the Author

John-Paul Iwuoha

John-Paul is passionate about the new wave of youthful entrepreneurship that is sweeping across Africa. He represents the new generation of entrepreneurs who see Africa’s problems as lucrative business opportunities.

John-Paul has a diverse background that cuts across entrepreneurship and consulting. He is a chartered certified accountant (ACCA) and holds a degree in mechanical engineering.

He specializes in solving business problems that relate to strategy, sales, systems, and finance. Since 2013, he has worked with over 400 clients in 16+ countries who are at different stages of starting and growing their businesses in a wide range of industries, from agribusiness to banking, tech, fashion, real-estate, and several others.

His work, opinion pieces and articles have been featured in several local and international media, including CNN, The Huffington Post, Business Day, and The African Perspective Magazine. He was named by LinkedIn as one of the global Top Voices on Startups and Entrepreneurship.

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What you'll get from this book

Understand how financing works

Identify critical risks and red flags

Avoid costly mistakes and missed opportunities

Improve and perfect your pitching skills

Craft professional and compelling proposals

Important extras to help along the way

What people are saying about the book...

The Extras that come with this book

EXTRA 1

The Investment Readiness Checklist (IRC) is an important diagnostic tool that helps you to objectively audit your current situation and find out how ready you really are to raise capital from investors.

With over 60 investor-grade questions, this checklist will help you to avoid all the guesswork by showing you how investors are really going to assess your business as an investment opportunity. It will help you to identify the key strengths in your business that are favourable to investors, and the major weakness and gaps that could turn off investors and negatively affect your chances of raising capital.

The IRC also includes commentary, suggestions, and recommendations that will help you understand the rationale behind investors' questions and provides tips and advice that will help you close the gaps, improve your weaknesses and consolidate your strengths.

The Investment Readiness Checklist is a digital download that is only available to anyone who buys the Plus or VIP version of the book.

EXTRA 2

EXTRA 3

Extra #2: Consulting

(only for those who buy the Book VIP Option)

About the Author

John-Paul Iwuoha

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Learn the Top Secrets & Strategies for Raising Funds for Any Business, Project, or Cause

“Before your book and courses, no financial institution accepted to fund my business despite all my endeavours. With advice I gathered from your online courses and the book you published (Jackpot), I opened a poultry farm, signed a funding partnership with ACEP, and a potential investment from a World Bank-sponsored animal development project.”

Stephen Atanga Wazeh
Cameroon

“Many thanks, John-Paul, for your hard work and persistence to deliver on supporting material for business entrepreneurs! I have bought your book (Jackpot) and have also shared the link with some people I believe are serious about running their own businesses. Your relentless work is truly playing a key role in shaping the economics of Africa for good.”

Joseph Mutamba
Mechanical Engineer, Norway

EXTRA 2

The Africa Hot 100 Investor Catalogue

Finding the right investors to target will require a lot of deep research, especially if you’re doing business in emerging markets like Africa. That’s why we created this curated catalogue that will surely save you a lot of time and frustration.

If you’re an entrepreneur in Africa, or you have business interests in Africa, this catalogue profiles 100 of the top funding organisations and investment firms that invest billions of dollars in Africa every year.

The catalogue profiles the key sectors and industries they typically focus on, the type of capital they invest, notable examples of real businesses and projects they have already funded in Africa, and important contact information you can follow up with: physical office address, email, telephone numbers and website URL.

The Africa Hot 100 catalog is a digital download that is only available to anyone who gets the Plus and VIP versions of Jackpot.

EXTRA 3

The Toolbox

As you try to raise capital, you will encounter several situations that, if not handled professionally, can lead to serious troubles down the road. One common example is poorly-defined relationships with business partners, investors, consultants, and employees.

The Toolbox contains several important resources and sample documents that will help you become more professional as you close investment and partnership deals. It includes sample agreements you can quickly adapt and use, such as: a Partnership Agreement, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), an Investor’s Term Sheet, a Shareholders’ agreement, a Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA), among other important technical resources.

The Toolbox is a digital download that is only available to anyone who get the Plus or VIP version of Jackpot.

1-Hour Private Consulting Session

EXTRA 4

Sometimes, you need a listening ear and cold, hard advice to solve a nagging fundraising problem.

Using valuable experience gained from working with dozens of clients trying to raise funds to start, grow or turn around their businesses, you will have a 1-hour private consulting session with the author to discuss your funding needs and brainstorm potential sources of funding that meet your needs.

You will also have the opportunity to discuss the risk assessment of your business, and strategies for identifying, engaging, and following up with potential investors. Other common topics discussed during private consulting sessions are business valuation, legal aspects of investment deals, due diligence, and common obstacles that stand in the way of closing investment deals.

This 1-Hour Private Consulting Session is exclusive to those who buy the Jackpot ViP option. You will be sent the link to a scheduling tool to choose a convenient date and time for the session.

EXTRA 4