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<span id="docs-internal-guid-e3e1b830-76f5-3168-8f38-f1c93709ea35"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the topic of funding, once again, check your initial impulse on who you might contact and how you may go about raising funds. Think about what kinds of people might have money to willingly donate in support of your vision. One excellent group is alumni. Contact your Dean of External Affairs and ask them to put you in contact with wealthy alumni who have a history of donating to the school. Contact your Econ professors and see if they know any entrepreneurial alumni that have gone on to create successful startups. These alumni will have money, and will also immediately recognize the value of your venture.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-e3e1b830-76f5-3168-8f38-f1c93709ea35"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you plan to have influential people come and speak for your class, the “shotgun method”, or cold calling, can come in handy. Send out “template letters” (emails with the exact same content, but with names changed) to as many interesting people as possible, and you are guaranteed to get at least a few positive replies.</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-e3e1b830-76f5-3168-8f38-f1c93709ea35"><span style="fontbackground-sizecolor: 16px; font-family: Arialtransparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backgroundfont-colorfamily: transparentArial; verticalfont-alignsize: baseline16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finally, enlist a few faculty to help out with logistics and to act as mavens who will provide important contacts.</span></span>
== Raising awareness about the course ==
