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What Should You Send a VC Before Your Meeting?

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whether they invest or not. If you have another 15–20 super detailed slides they should either be in an appendix after you get through the main presentation or in a separate deck that you may or may not get out. If the investor spends all of his or her time staring at slides you’ve lost. Compelling.

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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. Because I invest in “ lines, not dots ” it’s actually the delta that I’m investing in.

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The Four Main Things that Investors Look for in a Startup

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But in my experience as an entrepreneur and now spending my time amongst investors I can generalize that almost all VC investments in early stage technology & Internet investments come down to just four key factors. If I feel a priori that the CEO can’t cut it I’m highly unlikely to invest.

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7 Pitching Tips to Help You Crush Your Next Investor Meeting

Tech.Co

Try to compile all the different types of questions you could be asked about your business, like technical details, financial assumptions and projections, marketing, IP, etc., Try to keep the presentation tight, 10 slides is ideal,” Gruber said. Also keep the slides clean and easy to read. and prepare a response. Less Is More.

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How Halla Is Using AI To Personalize Food, With Spencer Price

socalTECH

What we learned, is there is so much more demand from existing retailers and platforms that sell directly to consumers, and discovery platforms like Foursquare, who wanted to user our IP as a layer, versus a standalone product. So, we stopped our B-to-C product about a yaer ago, and since then have exclusively been licensing our technology.

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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

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One area I’ve had much discussion with the companies in which I’ve invested in is bringing on board an operationally focused CFO. What I used to do is pencil out my plans for the board deck and strategy topics and my CFO would then pull together the slides and analysis. Legal threats from other IP holders?

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Grade A Entrepreneurs , September 5, 2010 Why Krispy Kreme failed in Australia - Start Up Blog , November 3, 2010 Mellow Johnny’s: Retail Stores as Community Hubs - IDDICTIVE.COM , July 14, 2010 Is crowdfunding an option for my business?

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