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A Look Behind The Curtain: New Data On How VCs Raise Their Early Funds

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Source: DocSend’s VC Fundraising Report If expanding your network and practicing your pitch are important to you, you may benefit from pitching a larger pool of investors. The graph above shows a definite point of diminishing returns when contacting LPs, somewhere around 60–70. from pre-seed to Series A.

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Who the hell is this guy? Thoughts on being a career VC

This is going to be BIG.

The other day, I got interviewed for Business Insider. It was a good interview, save for that little vein that I had no idea was so prominently featured on the side of my head--but what's a bald guy to do? At least it's not a weird fold in the back or a dent at the top. All hat and no cattle as they say. How about as a VC? And you know what?

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Never Ask a Busy Person to Lunch. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

Let’s say it’s for biz dev purposes, or you’re pitching investors, recruiting, or it’s a sales meeting – whatever. I know with a title like that I’m going to subject myself to people thinking I’m just being a grumpy, exclusive VC. That’s not the point. I’ll keep it short. Not so much.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

“As they say in poker, ‘If you’ve been in the game 30 minutes and you don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.‘” Warren Buffet, 1997. Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. As a result, it is a common marketing practice to offer things “for free” in order to impact customer behavior or encourage customer loyalty. Billions of dollars.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

Spend time researching your buyers and not just pitching them. Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. Raising money is hard. And when you’re relatively new to the process it’s easy to be confused by the process.

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Lessons from Implementing Netflix’s “Dream Team” Model at 3 Hypergrowth Tech Companies

Reforge

The definition of “team” in this case is a group created by a leader to achieve a specific goal. Table of Contents What makes a “Dream Team” a dream team? Imagine a dozen people sitting in the same room where everyone knows what everyone’s doing, and everyone is aligned on what’s most important. What is a “Dream Team”?

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6 African women CEOs discuss how they raised more than $1M in 2021

TechCrunch

I was cognizant that women only received less than 1% of venture funding globally, but that wasn’t at the forefront of my mind as I started my journey or as I pitched to VCs or angels. Reports indicate they secured 83% more funding than the previous year, primarily attributed to the record-setting $329 billion U.S. startups raked last year.

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