AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The firm’s end-to-end services including program structuring, startup sourcing, startup interviews and selection, mentor recruitment, organising masterclasses, business matching, coaching, day-to-day operations, startup fundraising support, and organising demo days. and What’s your mental model for investing?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

Along with detail orientation I have a strong bias for “doers.&# When I ask for a quick demo and the CEO tells me that he’ll schedule a follow-on meeting with his sales rep because, “I’m not a demo guy. I told him that “president&# was a strange title for a startup. Unfortunately.

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entrepreneurs advice pitching VC 286

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

I’m supposed to believe that my best innovation can only come from scores of startup founders who just made millions and have now become CVOs at my company? Go do a startup. Get yourself in a big demo day competition. I know I’m supposed believe in acquihires to bury my investments that aren’t working.

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strategy venture capital advice entrepreneurs 357

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

This is part of a series of advice for founders who need to raise money from venture capitalists. The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. an investment in your company.

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VC advice entrepreneurs energy 332

Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 29, 2021

There’s an old adage that says, “ask for money and you’ll get advice; ask for advice and you might get money.” They feel almost like vicarious founders, and so they are emotionally invested in your success because they are helping you build that business. But how do you do that? Don’t even think about building a product.

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communities advice development pitching 64

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Most investors wait to see who else is investing. &# Social Proof&# weighs heavily on investors in making their decisions. Paul Graham’s assertion that “any startup founder can tell you the most common question they hear from investors is not about the founders or the product, but “who else is investing?&#

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financing finance advice VC 286

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. When you’re an early-stage startup that hasn’t raised any institutional money you end up doing almost every job function of the company yourself. And this is how it should be in startups. Tags: Start-up Advice. I did the grunt work.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve tried to make this advice as well-rounded and biased free as I can. Partners make investment decisions. Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. Raising money is hard. Meet in person. Create scarcity.

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strategy development VC advice 366

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

After working in political campaigns, I realized that many of the skillsets overlapped with what startups need: moving fast, being lean, communicating well, being adaptable and staying flexible. How do you collaborate with startups? Our services cater to every stage of the founder journey.

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startup SaaS advice strategy 102

Y Combinator

APRIL 24, 2024

All of our classmates were interviewing for jobs at investment banks, etc, and that just sounded terrible to us. I went back to Google for a bit and I had that realization that I wanted to be working with startup founders again. And we’ve done all that while also increasing the ratio of YC partners to founders.

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founder startup advice VC 102

Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

41:10 – How has the Indian startup ecosystem evolved? 43:30 – Can foreigners come to India and start a startup? 44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. 45:45 – After Meesho, what’s the most exciting startup in India? ” Let’s keep investing there.

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