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Startup Business Funding: 5 Business-Breaking Misconceptions

Dream It

The press enhances this misconception around YCombinator demo days, where the 3-day pitch event is perceived like an auction, with investors fighting each other for the best deals. Many programs still put a lot of focus on demo day rehearsals, prep, and on getting the pitch deck just right. It did for me, at least.

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Virtual Data Rooms: The Unsung Hero of Biotech Financing

Andreessen Horowitz

Together, these documents will help distill not only your vision for the current fundraise, but more broadly the long-term differentiation and trajectory of your company. While you have undoubtedly already shared these responses by email or live discussion, it’s helpful to see all the correspondence documents in one place.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

LawCloud offers free legal documents through the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization. These documents are helpful for forming a new company, running your company, maintaining good corporate governance, and more. Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more.

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Save $450,000, and Win Your Next Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

The average new business pitch costs $450,000. You can’t afford to lose a pitch or (even worse) win a pitch that’s not the right fit for your business. So lets start with these six elements of a pitch response: Values: Your team aligns with the Brand’s value system. Process: Leading a pitch from end to end.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Additional value outside of legal documents – Most lawyers who work with early stage startups secretly want to be entrepreneurs but they earn too much money to quit – the golden handcuffs I’ve found that the best of them think like entrepreneurs, though, and hang out at startup events. Good people and evil people.

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Fox Launchpad: When Startups Need Help Getting Started

Angel Capital Association

The program includes: Startup Package - The legal advice and documents necessary to get a company up and running, all for a discounted flat rate. Free Early Stage Consult - Fox will hire an outside consultant to provide advice on pitch decks or executive summaries.

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The 8 Biggest Fundraising Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make

Feedough

But fret not, we’ve listed down the eight biggest fundraising mistakes that you need to be wary of while approaching the investors, pitching to them, and signing contracts. Substandard Pitch Decks. A prominent mistake entrepreneurs make is by not focusing much on the pitch deck. Assuming Valuations And Demands.