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

This is going to be BIG.

How do you get 150+ VCs to show up for something? nextNYC, the startup events platform I run, produces the largest formal VC/Founder intro event at NY Tech Week. Last year, over 150 VCs participated and were looking forward to having even more. No VC on the face of the earth has a magical Good Deals Only stream of opportunities.

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15 Innovative Pitch Deck Designs That Drove Investor Engagement

StartupNation

Learn from the best as expert insights illuminate the path to creating presentations that resonate and drive engagement. During our Series A round, I replaced traditional bar graphs with dynamic visuals that investors could manipulate during the presentation. I held the FlexBeam while presenting and activated it on cue.

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Creator Ventures Raises $45M Fund II to Back the Next Generation of Consumer Internet Startups

American Entrepreneurship

We believe this presents a massive opportunityand were building our firm to be the go-to partner for founders innovating in this space. Consumer has the largest share of global GDP, and yet consumer startups have been underfunded by venture capital in recent years, said Sasha Kaletsky, Managing Partner at Creator Ventures. million.

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Interview: James Burnes, Ministry of Awesome

NZ Entrepreneur

We’ve got a lot of focus on presenting one-to-one advice that is very practical, very focused on commercial success, very focused on operational success. And we’ve kind of moved to a virtual event because, for us, we have a great relationship with VC’s in the market, and with angel investors in the market.

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How much of my business do I have to give to an investor?   

Berkonomics

Projections for your future [Email readers, continue here… ] You should expect to present detailed projections for the next 12 months as a basic minimum. VC rule of thumb Most VC’s look for a 10x opportunity – that is – ten times increase in the valuation from investment to liquidity event.

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How To Pitch A Real Estate Tech VC

Dream It

If you’re pitching a VC, you must do the bare minimum of looking at their website, knowing their previous investments, and learning about the background of the partners you will be pitching. There’s a lot of competition in the real estate market, and that presents an opportunity for startups.

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Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions

Both Sides of the Table

I told my friend that I felt that in 2014 too many new VCs feel the pressure to chase deals, to be a part of syndicates with other brand names and to pounce on top of every startup whose numbers are trending up quickly. I know I can’t be in every deal and I know that the easy part of being a VC is writing the first check in a deal.

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