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What Should You Send a VC Before Your Meeting?

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If your teaser deck was 8–12 pages it would likely include: team market problem why your solution solves this problem progress to date (funding, team, customers, revenue if significant) TAM (market sizing / why this will be valuable) Your “meeting deck” should just be an expansion of what was in your teaser deck. Compelling.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

- SoCal CTO , January 13, 2010 5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere - Life Beyond Code , March 29, 2010 No Accounting For Startups - Steve Blank , February 22, 2010 Startup Advice In Exactly Three Words - #StartupTriplets - OnStartups , January (..)

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The Four Main Things that Investors Look for in a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

And VC’s are tough customers. If you have beta customers, new pricing plans, different positioning, more market insights, good press coverage – whatever – these are all signs that the ball is moving forward. Because management is so important I always tell people to make the bio slide the first in your deck.

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I Know Everybody Told You to Send Your Fund-Raising Decks as a Link.

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I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. after all you aren’t presenting this at TED. What should be in your deck? What should not be in your deck?

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?! NDAs or Other Protection So you decide you want to be able to share with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. False Confidence.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?! NDAs or Other Protection So you decide you want to be able to share with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. False Confidence.

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7 Pitching Tips to Help You Crush Your Next Investor Meeting

Tech.Co

One of the biggest turn offs for investors are founders who don’t know the basics of their business, especially their market and customer. They have to know their industry, know their customers, and understand what it takes to make their customers happy.”. Try to keep the presentation tight, 10 slides is ideal,” Gruber said.

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