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How To Pitch A Real Estate Tech VC

Dream It

Berman comes from a real estate background, and he co-founded Camber Creek after realizing an opportunity to “create a double alpha situation,” both investing in high-growth startups and using those startups to improve the operations of his own real estate portfolio. Does the founder know how to sell into real estate?

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Pitch me!

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It''s a co-working space full of creatives and freelancers, most of whom who have never pitched an investor, and probably never seen a startup pitch either. The first question I always get, which I find endlessly hilarious, is "Don''t you get tired of people pitching you all the time?". For a seed fund, I find it a bit silly.

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The Five "Ups" of Getting Early Stage VC Deal Flow

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nextNYC, the startup events platform I run, produces the largest formal VC/Founder intro event at NY Tech Week. Investors can sign up for a two hour slot here to get six intro meetings to founders.) Even the top partners at Benchmark and Sequoia get half-baked ideas pitched to them. Founders talk to each otherjust as VCs do.

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Presenting the Perfect Pitch Deck that Secures Startup Investment

American Entrepreneurship

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, a leading venture capital firm, says, “The thing that gets me most excited is the founder whos obsessed with solving a problem that matters, and is determined to keep going no matter what.” Learn what investors want to hear that triggers their investment decisions.

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How To End Your Pitch with Your Vision

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But founders are often so consumed with talking metrics, milestones achieved, or the capital they need that they sometimes forget to talk about their overarching vision for their startups. Selling a compelling vision is so critical that some investors weigh it more heavily than the pitch deck itself. It’s not about the slide deck.

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What do you need for a VC to properly evaluate a pitch?

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One of the most difficult conversations I have with founders is when they haven’t quite given me enough of a story for me to make a proper evaluation. If I wind up asking for more info, it might result in a founder feeling like they’re getting the runaround, given what the founder believes to be an obviously good idea.

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Why Founders Have No Clue How They Raised (Or Failed To)

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It was a clearly hot space and they felt like they had missed out on an opportunity to place their bet in it—and worst of all, they lost the deal to what they considered a rival firm. Founders get “happy ears”. The ecosystem is full of bad advice from founders that couldn’t raise.

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