Chris Folayan
About Chris Folayan
Speech topics
Building Successful Startups
I speak about building successful startups from the ground up, developing a successful mindset, pivot strategies, raising money for seed to mid-stage companies and global eCommerce. The audience I normally speak to are business founders, CEOs, entrepreneurs, and MBA students.
- How pivots can save your company and increase your market share
- How I built Africa’s largest eCommerce platform
- The Art of Attracting Investors: What Founders, CEOs need to get great investors.
- Unleash Your Startup's Potential: Secrets to Building a Thriving Company
Speaking videos
Books by Chris Folayan
“From Pitch To Close: What Founders and CEOs Need to Know and Do Before An Investor Meeting” (2023)
"From Pitch to Close" is for CEOs and founders looking to raise investor led funding of any sort. This award winning book contains a step-by-step guide for securing investment for startups or businesses. Written by an award-winning serial entrepreneur, inventor, speaker, and startup mentor, the book draws from the author's decades of personal experience of raising millions of dollars globally. The book provides tips and strategies on preparing for investor meetings and how to maximize your business valuation. It answers critical questions about investors and what they look for in founders and their businesses. The author Chris Folayan answers key questions such as, How can I improve my business valuation before approaching investors? What do investors want in a founder and company? How do I create a compelling pitch story and deck? How can I determine if I have the right investor? What should I do if an investor asks me a question that I don't know the answer to? At the end of the book you will possess a exclusive understanding of what you can do before you speak to investors to better equip yourself with the knowledge you need to get the best valuation, and investor possible.
“Guide To Raising A Ceo And Entrepreneur” (2022)
If you have ever said to yourself I know my child will be an amazing CEO or entrepreneur but I don't know where to start. This book is for you. We can all agree that schools are vital to the success of our children. However, when it comes to empowering them with the skills, logic, mindset, marketing, team management and financial aspects of building a business most schools fall short. Imagine if you had a roadmap - a step-by-step guide that would help you raise your child to be an amazing CEO or Entrepreneur. A guidebook that can help your child achieve their dreams, goals, and desires to be all they can be if they choose to become a business owner. That is exactly what this book is all about. This book bridges that gap between academics and real-world knowledge that is key to helping a child grow up to be an out-of-the-box, out of this world entrepreneurial spirited adult. It provides you with fun, child-friendly strategies, and activities designed to spark a child's entrepreneurial mind while building a strong relationship with your child. And yes, you can raise a child or teenager to think like an entrepreneur even if you are not an entrepreneur yourself. This book has step-by-step guides, processes, and games for you to follow to help you as a parent or guardian along the way. This guide dives deep into learning how to get your child to present ideas better, training practices on how to thinking outside the box, foundational concepts on how to build a great company, money management credit, debit, self-motivation, how they can find success in failures, want vs needs, create business ideas as a game, team dynamics, how to lead at a young age and so much more. The author Chris Folayan, is an award-winning second-generation serial entrepreneur, inventor, speaker, mentor, and author who has raised successful third-generation entrepreneurs. Chris has decades of experience in building multi-million-dollar businesses globally. In this book, Chris seeks to impart the life lessons of an entrepreneur and parent he has acquired to raise successful young entrepreneurs. While reading this book you will learn strategies, games, and activities you can do with your child to help them build the mindset and confidence needed to be a great business leader.
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