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What Should You Send a VC Before Your Meeting?

Both Sides of the Table

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

Both Sides of the Table

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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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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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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Great Entrepreneurs are Masters of Business Chaos

Startup Professionals Musings

They envision a stable environment after that point, and may have convinced themselves that they will be safer and happier with a livable income, maintaining a loyal but flat customer base. Don’t count on your IP to save you. Even after you bring chaos under control, you face an ongoing challenge to avoid back-sliding.

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Can Your Startup Flourish Despite Business Chaos?

Startup Professionals Musings

They envision a stable environment after that point, and may have convinced themselves that they will be safer and happier with a livable income, maintaining a loyal but flat customer base. Don’t count on your IP to save you. Even after you bring chaos under control, you face an ongoing challenge to avoid back-sliding.

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