Getting funded

I have had a lot of entrepreneurs ask me for introductions to various investors.

Elad Blog: How To Reply to Angel Investor Intro Emails

http://blog.eladgil.com/2011/11/how-to-reply-to-angel-investor-intro.html

Famous pitchdecks

Last night I taught a class via Skillshare (disclosure: Founder Collective is an investor) about how to raise a seed round. After a long day I wasn’t particularly looking forward to it, but it turned out to be a lot of fun and I stayed well past the scheduled end time. I think it worked well because the audience was full of people actually starting companies, and they came well prepared (they were all avid readers of tech blogs and had seemed to have done a lot of research).

http://cdixon.org/2011/06/09/notes-on-raising-seed-financing/

chris dixon's blog / Notes on raising seed financing

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster ( @msuster ), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners . Read more about Suster at his Startup Blog , BothSidesoftheTable. I have conversations with entrepreneurs and other VCs on a daily basis about fund raising, the prices of deals, how much companies should raise, etc.

Why Startups Should Raise Money at the Top End of Normal

Nat Turner (Thoughts on best ways to manage a VC round)

http://www.natsturner.com/post/5864750072

We spent too much time raising money at Invite. Raising money when running a startup is extremely distracting, because every minute you’re fundraising you’re not working on your product. Sometimes I like to think about what else we could have done at Invite if we didn’t spend probably a third of our company’s lifespan fundraising, either full-time or part-time.

Term sheets

(4) Startups: How to Communicate Traction... by Brendan Baker - Quora

Having raised a number of VC rounds personally and observed many more as an investor or friend, I’ve come to think there are a set of dominant best practices that entrepreneurs should follow. 1.

Best practices for raising a VC round

very valuable advices, as always with Chris Dixon by PED May 5

Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Socialcast founder Tim Young detailing how he raised 3 rounds totaling $10M in VC money in a year’s time with a 5-slide deck.

365 Days, $10 Million, 3 Rounds, 2 Companies, All With 5 Magic Slides

http://blog.eladgil.com/2011/03/questions-vcs-will-ask-you.html

This is the last in a series of posts about fundraising from VCs.

Elad Blog: Questions VCs Will Ask You

The Four Main Things that Investors Look for in a Startup | Both Sides of the Table

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/10/06/the-four-main-things-that-investors-look-for-in-a-startup/

So I wrote to the entrepreneur and said, “Congrats.

Seed rounds: Converts vs Equity

StartupCFO: Tricky 1st meeting questions

Fred Destin: The one-sentence e-mail turndown

StartupCFO: Know your numbers

http://redeye.firstround.com/2009/11/lets-just-add-in-a-little-virality.html

Redeye VC: Let's just add in a little virality

It happens all the time.

This is part of my series on How to Raise VC but could equally be filed under Startup Advice more generally. I recently got a phone call from an entrepreneur whom I respect and who runs a company that I hope will do great things one day. He had pitched me in the past and I told him that for a variety of reasons his company was too early stage for me but that I would happily keep track of their progress.

Save Your Spin for Someone Who Cares

Negotiating a Better Series A Deal | Xconomy

[ Updated 11/18/09, see below ] This post is about how to get a better deal from VCs investing in your first round of financing. It is also about how to make the deal into a win-win.

In any case, I hope Google+ succeeds.