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If you do this one thing your startup business model is...
Tl;dr: Your startup business model needs to work. That model needs to pass the numbers and narrative test if you are to have a...
The direct to consumer landscape. You need to see this picture....
Tl;dr: A direct to consumer landscape overview and an excel you can download.
Dollar Shave Club. We all saw the video. In 4 years they got...
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Foursquare Pitch Deck to raise startup seed capital
Everyone has heard of Foursquare, here's the Foursquare pitch deck they used to get started.
They raised a $1.35m seed. The company has since gone...
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Ultimate startup cap table and return analysis template
A cap table is something that every startup needs, but something no one really knows how to do. Furthermore there is an implied expectation...
PITCHING
Collection of the best tech startup pitch videos
So you got your deck together, intros to the venture capitalist and now its time to meet in person and make the 'pitch.' Whoa,...
Why I want a pitch deck before a pitch
Many founders view the panacea to securing funding from VCs in the fundraise process as getting the first meeting; once they are in they...
This is how to get introductions to venture capital investors for your startup fundraise
So, you want to raise money for your startup and you require investors. Only like most people, you don’t know any, right? So how do...
Presentations: The consequence of not knowing or not having interest in a topic
I just watched the rather tragic failure of a presentation at CES, in which the director Michael Bay was lending his name to a...
The real reason founders aren’t funded you will never hear a VC say
“It’s not me, it’s you”
- No ex-girlfriend ever
You have heard quotes from VCs (Venture capital) effuse the importance of the team, you know so...
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Barkbox: Barking mad? Why some business models applied to other verticals...
I read an article the other day (Note: I actually wrote this a few months back) on Pando Daily about a company called Barkbox...
