Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Raise”
This is the Moz pitch deck for their series-B fundraise (Originally called SEOMoz) with which they raised $18m. Read the blog at the end! About Moz Moz provides analytics software to track all of a website’s inbound marketing efforts—search marketing, link building, social media, and brand mentions—on one platform. Moz Analytics tracks each effort with beautiful data visualizations, insights into …
This is the LinkedIn pitch deck to raise their $10m series-b in 2003. LinkedIn, a professional networking site, allows its members to create business connections, search for jobs, and find potential clients. Often I will add commentary to slides, but in this case, it’s not a great use of time. Why? Well, Reid Hoffman the founder of LinkedIn wrote the …
This is the Airbnb pitch deck to raise their $600k seed round. It is fairly basic, but it gets the point across. It took them a looooong time to raise. They also had NO idea what they were doing. They changed their market size from an ‘m’ to a ‘b’ as Sam Altman told them that’s what investors wanted to hear! …
This is the Mattermark series a pitch deck. Danielle Morrill from Mattermark did a decent job on their VC pitch deck. Here are two versions of their Series-A deck so you can see how it changed. It is well worth reading the Medium article below about the story behind their raise. About Mattermark series a pitch deck Mattermark is where …
Garage Technology Ventures Managing Director Bill Reichert gives this classic presentation on the Top 10 VC Lies Tell Entrepreneurs in front of students of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In this talk, he explains how VCs often use euphemisms for what they mean in their discussions with entrepreneurs, while entrepreneurs use certain common phrases that VCs consider white lies. You can …
