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Don’t Pitch Your Idea To Venture Capitalists, They Don’t Care
This entry originally appeared on Forbes HERE Although it is tempting to overly intellectualize modern-day venture capital, its underlying construct has been part of human society for thousands of years. From the earliest days of seafaring traders, affluent dilettantes have been entrusting their capital to less-affluent, enterprising workers willing to share a portion of the resulting gain with their benefactors.
SharkTank Take Over
The Shark Tank is overflowing with pitches which means its time for a Shark Tank TAKEOVER. We give 3 hungry entrepreneurs 60 seconds each to pitch they’re startups in front of the world. Then it’s up to Jason,Tyler and YOU to decide how they fair.
A VC Walks into Your Pitch Meeting Biased – GenuineVC
VCs rarely go into an entrepreneur’s pitch meeting with a completely open mind. Of course they have biases given their past experiences, like with any human interaction. More importantly, though, they have biases about whether or not they are going to find the opportunity attractive even before a word of the dialog has been spoken. VCs have a fond saying about “wanting to like it” when they’re introduced to a new investment opportunity where many conditions of their so-called pattern recognition are satisfied prior to hearing the story. On the negative side, many VCs often take meetings (out of “courtesy,” for education purposes, etc.) when they know a priori they have no intention of investing.
M.A.S.H #2: Passez les Start-Ups au Détecteur de Mensonges (1/3) - M.A.S.H
Lorsque vous parlez avec un créateur de start-up vous avez souvent le sentiment d'avoir à faire à quelqu'un d'excessivement sûr de soi, de sa vision, connaissant exactement le chemin à emprunter pour réussir et ne laissant aucune place au doute et à l'improvisation. Pour tous, il est évident qu'un entrepreneur doit maîtriser par avance son produit, son marché, son mode de distribution, sa compétition, son modèle de revenu, etc. Même si tous ces points sont bien évidemment vitaux, je ne connais pas beaucoup d'entrepreneurs qui ont mis en oeuvre un plan conforme à leur idée initiale. Il est temps de dire la vérité.
Episode 1 / Episode 2 / Episode 3 (soon) En débutant cette série de posts, je ne m'attendais pas à autant de réactions de votre part. Depuis mon dernier post et ma vidéo-avé-l'accent-frenchie déjà culte, j'ai reçu plusieurs sollicitations de journalistes me demandant mon point de vue sur la création de start-ups en France et aux US. Je pensais qu'il me faudrait un peu plus de temps pour activer la communauté mais visiblement le sujet est porteur et mon style un peu trop ironique parfois je le concède, a au moins le mérite de créer du débat . Cela tombe bien, c'est fait pour çà un blog !
M.A.S.H #4: Passez les Start-Ups au Détecteur de Mensonges (2/3) - M.A.S.H
Together with Nic Brisbourne of The Equity Kicker / DFJ Esprit , I am writing a series of 50 questions you should ask when raising venture capital . We expect the series to run for a year, after which we will collate the answers into a book. We view this as a collaboration, so please comment to help make this series even more useful.
50 questions: What should I try to achieve in the first meeting? - Games Brief
How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy
Raising money is hard. And when you’re relatively new to the process it’s easy to be confused by the process. There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. Of course much of it is conflicting. I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud.
8 Things to Think About Before You Make Your Next Product Pitch
St. Louis became the 22nd city to have a branch of the Founders Institute today. The operation helps entrepreneurs in a very structured four-month paid mentoring program. It involves intensive coaching and has resulted in more than 700 startups, with over 40% of them receiving funding.
Yelp filed it’s S-1 last week in preparation for an IPO next year, and yesterday Rocky Agrawal, wrote on Venturebeat about the company’s strengths and weaknesses as an investment prospect. Rocky describes himself as a fan of Yelp as a consumer (he was one of the early adopters in 2006 and used to email the CEO with product suggestions) but his analysis is nicely balanced. Rocky cites a number of strengths in the business (deep review content, the most up to date business listings, highly engaged local communities, clever community management, high percentage of revenues from independent businesses), and I also think that Yelp is a strong company – growing revenues from $12.1m in 2008 to $47.7m in 2010 and $58.4m in the first nine months of this year is no mean feat.
Analysis of Yelp S-1: An illustration of how investors look for weaknesses in investment pitches « « The Equity KickerThe Equity Kicker
Thanks so much to the great folks at Zintro. They just published a blog post about how I used Zintro conduct a broad market survey and help a client understand the needs and expectations of several different markets it could enter. I thought this would provide me with a good opportunity to discuss a few of the techniques we use for this type of research, starting of course with a broader view of a Zintro-enabled project. When you are trying to gain access to a new market, it can be very difficult to truly assess the needs of your potential customers. What may seem like a great opportunity on paper can quickly fizzle as you understand the complex web of alternatives available to those you are targeting. That’s why we always advise clients to back up their go-to-market plans with detailed evidence of market need – driven by real or simulated sales experiences.
Build A Pitch Through Expert Conversations: How Explorics Uses Zintro - Explorics
Checklist for a Perfect VC Pitch :: StartupCFO : Mark MacLeod
Several months ago I posted a form I use for grading VC presentations. I still use it. But last week I was watching some demo day pitches with the Founderfuel teams as we prepare for our own demo day on November 8.L’art du pitch, par Marc Rougier (fondateur de Scoop.it)The Butterfly Efex
in Share Marc Rougier nous présente ici les éléments clefs pour bien réussir son premier pitch pour présenter sa start-up. Désolé si la caméra bouge un peu au début, le tout a été filmé à bout de brasFunding - Pitch - Techniques - Finance
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Une présentation est souvent l'outil qui vous permet de vous présenter à un client ou à un investisseur. A vous de la rendre percutante. Voici 10 conseils pour réussir cette étape incontournable dans le parcours d'un entrepreneur. Un des outils les plus importants dans une levée de fonds est la présentation.
Levée de fonds : les dix conseils pour réussir votre présentation aux investisseurs. par Marc Fournier - Chronique e-Business
The Magic of a Y Combinator Pitch « vcdave
For the past while now, I’ve been advising the founders of SendHub . Before Ash and his cofounders got into YC, we’d get together and work through various ideas. We’d talk about fund raising, about applying to YC, about how to go big. I remember going through the team’s very first slide deck and helping them rework it into a fund raising pitch as they started approaching investors.Funding - Pitching - Techniques - High profiles
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