How to pitch your startup in 30 minutes (initial introductory meeting) in 8 steps
How to pitch your startup in 30 minutes (initial introductory meeting) in 8 steps
Topic
Venture Capital
A collection of 31 issues
How to pitch your startup under 10 minutes
The following startup pitch guide is focused on presentations that need to be done within 10 minutes (or less). It is very hard, and some entrepreneurs master this. But everyone can get better at this with practice.
Demystifying the Cap Table
One essential document in startup financing journey is the "Cap Table," short for Capitalization Table. While it may sound like a complex financial document, it is quite simple in its construction and provides the basis for various financial analyses related to a company's capital structure.
Understanding
What does it take to lead early-stage investments?
Venture investing in the early stage is not for the faint of heart. It takes a lot of strategic and operational work to achieve key business and financial milestones which are prerequisite for growth equity. No one can do all the work alone. In fact, it requires the right type
The Discipline of Business Updates
Sharing regular business updates is an important discipline for startups and management teams. For me, these regular updates come each week and month in the forms of weekly CEO calls and email updates from CEOs. These regular updates focus on the state of the business - finance, sales, marketing, product,
Capitalization Table (cap table) Basics
In my experience, I have found that even with founders and entrepreneurs have various levels of understanding of capital structure represented by what's called a capitalization table or "cap table."
Basics:
Cap table is an Excel file that summarizes equity ownership structure in a corporation. The
Making meaningful investments
As a technology investor, people ask me what I invest in. After talking about thematic focus areas, I point out that I like to invest in solutions that are solving meaningful problems. Sometimes, it's hard to convey what's meaningful because what's meaningful to one
How to build A+ team?
Originally posted on July 23, 2022
Recent article in WSJ about Tour de France provides a good reminder of how to build high performing team and what great teamwork looks like.
To win the yellow jersey in the Tour de France, it definitely takes more than the lead rider. Lead
Approaches to Strategic Financial Planning for Startups
Originally posted on September 7, 2022
I want to turn to a different topic: approaches to strategic financial planning for startups, a timely topic now that we are in September! A few weeks ago, I wrote why starting financial and strategic planning early in 2H of the year is important.
A note on due diligence as a VC
Originally posted on November 23, 2022
I wrote about due diligencing ethics in my last post; I want to follow up and write about due diligence in general.
Typically, people think that due diligence involves getting answers to a checklist. This is a small (and easy) part of the due