Tl;dr: Excel and Google sheet tool to manage the outreach to investors during your fundraise process. Track who you are reaching out to, the stage of conversation up to managing the allocation of funds to investors in the round. What this fundraising process manager tool is for If you want to raise money, you need to run a process. You …
SAFE Calculator for the Y-Combinator Post Money SAFE
Tl;dr: Free SAFE calculator in Excel to calculate the post-money and pre-money SAFE from Y-Combinator. It’s the only one on the internet. Y-Combinator released the new post-money SAFE in October 2018. It’s a large change to the original pre-money SAFE that was released in 2013. There is no calculator in Excel to actually illustrate the mechanics for the new SAFE …
Decipher key top line SaaS revenue terms like bookings, billings and revenue
Tl;dr: We are going to cover key SaaS revenue terms like booking, billings, and revenue so you don’t have to pretend to understand them. As usual, I’ve also built an excel model to have a play with. Note: This is a long blog so if you want to download this in PDF I’ve included it with the model. It will …
How to forecast your fundraising till you exit
Tl;dr: Plan your path from now to exit. How much do you need to grow at each and every stage, and how much funding do you need to support that? Free tool in Excel. NOTE: If you want it, it gets emailed to you automatically. Fill in the download box! How do you answer these questions from an investor?: How …
Venture capital LP one pager for fundraising from Limited Partners
Tl;dr; A template LP one pager for VCs to send to LPs when you are fundraising. It’s a PowerPoint you can easily edit. NOTE: If you want it, it gets emailed to you automatically. Fill in the download box at the end of the blog! Fundraising is a pain in the ass and for VCs it’s even worse. Founders complain about …