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How to Improve Your Odds of Getting to Yes with a VC — “Land and Expand”

Both Sides of the Table

In order to understand how to “get to yes” with a VC you first need to understand how VC partnerships make decisions and then you can understand how to increase your odds of closing a deal. VC Partnerships Start by understanding how many partners are at the firm you are approaching. Reciprocity is equally destructive.

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How to Handle a VC Presentation with No Deck

Both Sides of the Table

I recently filmed a show for This Week in Venture Capital in which I talked about how to prepare for a VC meeting: whom you’ll meet, who should attend from your side, what materials you should bring and how you should run the meeting. The “Triple Play&# of VC Presentations. But take prompts from the VC.

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How to pitch me: 5 investors discuss what they’re looking for in April 2023

TechCrunch

Similarly, one VC may encourage newly minted CEOs to eat ramen and ride the bus, while another might suggest a salary in the low six-figures, depending on geography. In addition, building and iterating on an effective fundraising deck can serve as a framework for thinking and addressing important questions in the early days of a business.

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Is Strategic Money an Oxymoron?

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing Raising Venture Capital (VC) series. So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. Most VCs aren’t either? OK, I know this is true with VC also, but to a lesser extent. Great question.

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Recruiting and Retaining the Right Executive Talent

Andreessen Horowitz

I think it’s the best framework for executive hiring that I’ve seen. ” And so that framework helps think that through before you start talking to folks, which I think is very smart. And one of my biggest advice to those folks is, look, presumably, we all have the technical and functional skill set for this job.

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How to Manage a Board

Y Combinator

When people refer to setting up a board, what they usually mean is the process of adding outside directors, after the company raises money. We recommend getting to know partners at VC firms on your list at least 6 to 9 months before your fundraise. Decision framework. ? option grants). Managing Your Board. Meeting Schedule.

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Extra Crunch roundup: UiPath’s IPO filing, predicting revenue, how to pivot properly, much more

TechCrunch

But since I’ve never actually done those things, I would encourage you to ignore any advice I have to offer. Trusted advice comes from experience. If you have a great idea within the open-core framework, expect your risks to be much lower than with a traditional business structure. So you want to raise a Series A.