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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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How to Get a VC's Attention at an IRL Event

This is going to be BIG.

What Alan recognized was that most IRL forums and networking events are absolutely awful places to pitch and here’s why: 1) When a VC shows up in person, they’re looking to replicate the kind of top of the funnel they would get in an hour or two’s worth of e-mail, and that’s not going to happen if you corral them into a corner for 30 minutes.

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How To Pitch A Real Estate Tech VC

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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. Has the founder done his homework before his pitch?

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Don’t Make These 5 BIG Mistakes When Answering VC/Customer Questions

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During Q&A, both sides start engaging in a sort of conversational dance - with one side leading (VC/customer) and the other side following (founder). Most of that time goes to the meat of the conversion: the question-and-answer portion.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

Pitchbook estimates that there is about $290 billion of VC “overhang” (money waiting to be deployed into tech startups) in the US alone and that’s up more than 4x in just the past decade. What is a VC To Do? I can’t speak for every VC, obviously. What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like? super size or super focus.

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If you get an offer from YC or Techstars VC. Take it.

Founder Bounty

Time and time again i hear about founders that have bigger egos then anything else rejecting offers from top tier VC's (like YC ) and eventually leading thier companies to fail. If you do get and offer from top US VC's take them, dont be greedy and stay humble. Dont have a big ego.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I realized a long time ago that the VC’s customer is the founder/CEO/portfolio company and that our investors (called LPs in VC speak) are our “shareholders” That was a very defining moment for me and has clarified what matters the most in a VC firm. That can work too.

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