Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2022

A Very Honest Guide to Writing Your Fundraise Pitch Deck How to optimise yours for success Congratulations! You know you need a pitch deck to do this and so fire up your slide software of choice and crack your knuckles, ready to wow. I often see pitch decks positioning themselves as a Seed raise but realistically are at Pre-Seed.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I don’t feel like canceling LinkedIn just because occasionally a well-meaning but slightly not-clued-in person from a faraway place wants me to be their personal mentor, answer 3-questions for their high-school entrepreneurship project or take a sales pitch for their recruiting services. In Adam’s world, I’m rude. Scheduling a group call?—?as

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. 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.

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Founder Bounty

APRIL 4, 2023

A business plan is a document that outlines your company’s mission, goals, market analysis, target customers, financial projections, and strategies for success. Know your target investors Investors come in different forms, and each investor has a different investment criteria, goals, and preferences.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Startup pitches with promises to provide various services to Africans — across different sectors — are commonplace now. We know the rules, so you don’t have to spend time talking to lawyers and getting documents — we simplify all that.” The continent is also home to more than 1.2

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StartupNation

APRIL 21, 2021

Rewards-based crowdfunding is a great way to get the upfront capital you need while providing backers with a unique return on their investment in the form of rewards, like a physical product. As Indiegogo indicates, crowdfunding campaigns with pitch videos tend to get four times the backing of those without a video. Key takeaways.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

But in recent years, corporate docs are being drawn up in English to facilitate communication both inside Switzerland’s various language regions and foreign capital, and investment documentation is modeled after the U.S. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate. More than 50%?

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Feedough

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Of these, only 70,000 get angel investment, and less than 5,000 get venture capital. 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. Group B and C consists of investors who are less likely to invest.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Floww — a data-driven marketplace designed to allow founders to pitch investors, with the whole investment relationship managed online — says it has raised $6.7 Founders can then “drag and drop” their investor documents in any format. and multiple family offices.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

While it might sound strange getting your brother-in-law to sign a contract, a legal document is a great way to establish expectations for both parties. Pitch your business idea at a competition to earn startup funding. Check out this list of pitching competitions. Angel investing and venture capital (VC).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

As a Black fintech founder, I believe that venture investors are making safe bets and investing in late-stage founders instead of early or even pre-seed stages. However, I didn’t receive a single response while other founders received VC investment for basic ideas. These discussions then bring further biases to the surface.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

But as ventures as an asset class grows and the documentation around raises gets thornier, the data can sometimes be missing a big chunk of what’s actually happening on the scenes. Announcing the TC Early Stage Pitch-Off. Jack Dorsey and Jay Z invest 500 BTC to make Bitcoin ‘internet’s currency’. Use cloud foam to dollar sign.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Traditionally, SMEs were required to visit physical bank branches, provide extensive documentation, and endure lengthy approval processes for loans. Also read : Top 10 Fintech Startup Investments Powering Southeast Asia in 2023 Japan’s Five-Year Development Strategy unveils KANSAI Startup Night Vol.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

But those more aligned with the private sphere, such as venture capitalists and private equity investors, perhaps aren’t quite as well-served when it comes to funnelling into the data they need to carry out their due diligence ahead of making a big investment, or tracking and managing their portfolio through to an exit.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 1, 2020

As i2E has been closing our latest round of new investments over the last few weeks, I am reminded of how in the startup world and the venture industry, investment events attract attention. I don’t usually write about investment events. i2E had previously led several seed investments in the company.)

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

He’s the CEO of Humaans , an HR tech startup that lets organizations build a customizable HR stack that manages employee documents, data, payroll, contracts and other components of “people ops.” ” Luperti has a product to pitch. times the amount invested in 2020, according to PitchBook data.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 30, 2023

This is part of PEVCtech ‘s series on investment management firms’ tech stacks. During our 3 years, we’ve seen about 400-500 deals and have invested in about $10MM in 75 deals across 65 companies. clipr transcribes and categorizes the content of our pitch meeting video recordings. Why did you launch All Stage?

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 15, 2023

You need to fully appreciate the switching costs and be able to show a clear Return On Investment (ROI). Investors might want to see at least a 10x return on their investment, and until that happens they want to see exponential growth. Anything less struggles to overcome switching costs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

In the enterprise, there’s been an explosive growth of data — think documents, videos, audio files, posts on social media and even emails. The bulk of the investment is equity, but there’s some debt — Goswami wouldn’t give a ratio or percentage. ” So what else can enterprises do with Komprise?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Based on our experience, it takes less time to prepare an IEP petition than an O-1A petition because it’s not as document-intensive. Were you invited to judge a pitch competition, speak on a panel or mentor others based on your background, experience or skill set? My firm has filed several IEP petitions on behalf of clients.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

In doing this work, there has been a significant amount of investment of both funds and time in moving entrepreneurship activities forward. We will vigorously document the structure, projects, programs, relationships, strategies and tactics used by the coordinator. It’s a process and requires a long-term investment strategy.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

The investment was led by Advantage Capital with participation from Conductive Ventures, Origin Ventures, ScOp Venture Capital, JobsOhio, Cintrifuse Capital and 1809 Capital. About Advantage Capital Advantage Capital is a leading impact investment firm with an emphasis on driving capital to underserved areas.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

The pitch was tantalizing — but never fully realized. Dating back to 2017, Transformer has become the architecture of choice for natural language tasks, demonstrating an aptitude for summarizing documents, translating between languages and even classifying images and analyzing biological sequences. billion in 2020 to $19.6

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

The Act, which allocates $2 billion to states under the “Innovation and Startups Equity Investment Program,” enables investors in undercapitalized regions to leverage federal dollars into startup investments. Small Business Investment Companies (1950s & 60s) The U.S.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 8, 2022

As entrepreneurship increasingly becomes a cornerstone of this emerging inclusive growth journey, the need for early-stage investment capital increases, demanding support for initiatives towards the access of capital for the ecosystem to thrive. DDA’S 2022 “Investing in Africa ” report. . Virtual Investment Event.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When we actually originally made our investment in Figma, Peter, my partner, wrote in our thesis, “We are moving into the decade of design where design, not just code, is at the center of product development and successful organizations. I could have GPT-4 create a business plan and come pitch to you. We’re not there yet.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Second, because the tails of the solutions tend to be so long—think something like self-driving where there are so many exceptions that could possibly happen—the amount of investment to stay ahead increases and the value decreases. I’ve got to go consult documentation. You have this perverse economy of scale.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The funding was anchored by a major commitment from Two Sigma Ventures, the private venture investment affiliate of Two Sigma Investments. The company makes direct and indirect investments across a broad spectrum of asset classes. VCs pitch for money, too. It's the black box of the startup world.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

billion) invested by the South Korean government. XQuant is Asia’s leading specialist in using AI to process text documents, extract meanings and perform data analysis and second prize winner of KSGC 2021. Korea’s best ICT-based R&D innovation cluster is located on the campus, with a total of 5.27

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

That does not always lead to success, but it helps founders to avoid investments of resources into unpromising markets and ideas. So they are living documents that you should initially review after each interview and adjust as needed, and at a later time for strategic realignments.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Whether you’re building a company or thinking about investing, it’s important to understand your strategic advantage. The Exchange has been riffling through the document since it came out, and we’ve picked up on a few things to explore. For one, you have to stop thinking that what you are up to is interesting.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Tomasz Tunguz: That’s a living document. Claire Hughes Johnson : It’s a living document. So really having a documented set of priorities is the more important piece than the accountability piece, which I think is a nice externality of having whatever process you build. Mine, I edit constantly. How do you keep?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

Here’s Why You Should Just Send the Deck I know you have your document sending tool to send your fund-raising deck to VCs and track who read your deck, which pages they read and how much time they spend on each page. Because I invest in “ lines, not dots ” it’s actually the delta that I’m investing in.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. For posterity, here are some of the more recent investments… 2022 Hubly Surgical Hubly Surgical has an advanced drill, complete with auto-stop and visual feedback, to make medical drilling safe across underserved settings.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

I have spent most of the last two years investing at Series B and helping portfolio companies prepare for this first “growth-y” round. You want to proactively manage the order in which people access information and focus their attention on a few key documents that they can return to when they fall down a rabbit hole.

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