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I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. Vice versa is it’s a SaaS platform company where I spent nearly 10 years running companies. tip: write it down when asked / parked). Congratulations.
The other worthwhile exercise is to write down what your competitors uses as its USPs – even ones that you don’t think are really valuable to customers. So now you’ve got your key USPs written down and you’ve worked them into slide format to get them across to your prospects. It’s called ROI (return-on-investment) selling.
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We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Competitor: Slide. Online DSP (demand-side platform) and ad exchange for display advertisers. Revenue model: % of total ad or data buy purchased through platform. Targeting SMB’s (small & medium businesses).
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and was going to use AngelList by Nivi & Naval as the basis for my example and the perfect prompt came yesterday when I read Fred Wilson’s blog post on AngelList. From there Rob decided to make a small investment.
These have the benefit to VCs of not cross-collateralizing returns and to LPs of being able to know the underlying asset before they write the check. Here are some simple slides that outline the point: a. Some of the earliest-stage funds have set up SPVs because they are at times easier and faster to raise than new funds.
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They cite sources like the BusinessWeek story, “ Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Write Business Plans ” and this Forbes article. The size of the document should be based on your style, but 10-20 pages or slides are usually more than adequate to outline even a complex business. You need funding, and plan to get it from friends and family.
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I talked about this in the TWiVC video but I didn’t do a good enough job of writing it up in the summary notes in the post. I think the norm in the industry is still to see Powerpoint slides and I wouldn’t hold this against anybody. Powerpoint can be especially useful for platform businesses or B2B. Mobile app?
I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And covered we did.
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