Fundraising
How much money should you raise in your VC round? A collection of the best fundraising advice. Also check out https://refind.com/dominikg/pitch-decks
Collection by Dominik Grolimund
a16z
When Entry Multiples Don't Matter
~12 min read · From 2020 · When tech investors talk about valuation as "multiples" on revenue, what does that really mean? We demystify the role of entry multiples and share the two factors that matter most in tech growth… · Shared by 92, including Michael Carroll, Dominik Grolimund, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Ha Duong, Kevin Roberts, Matthias Kahr, Mattia Fregola 🤔
NFX
How I Raised VC From Top-Tier Funds
~16 min read · From 2020 · Incredible Health CEO & Co-Founder Iman Abuzeid breaks down the complicated (and often convoluted) process of fundraising and makes public her lessons for the Founder community on what it takes to… · Shared by 93, including Jonathan Kogan, Dominik Grolimund, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Peter Kazanjy, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙
youtube.com
How Sequoia Evaluates Market Size with Mike Vernal (Sequoia Capital)
From 2019 · In this episode of NFX's Startup Fundraising Advice, Mike Vernal (Sequoia Capital) uncovers how Sequoia views market size and how your company can stand out ... · Shared by 49, including Jacob du Toit, Bernhard Huessy, Dominik Grolimund, Thomas Billeter
Elizabeth Yin 💛
How I raised my $11.5m VC fund
20+ min read · From 2018 · A couple months ago, we announced that we finished fundraising for fund 1 of Hustle Fund. Hustle Fund is my new venture capital firm, and our fund 1 is an $11.5M fund dedicated to investing in pre… · Shared by 28, including Jeff Chang, Dominik Grolimund, Francesco Corea, Ricky Yean
hunterwalk.com
“I wanted to do the deal but i couldn’t convince my partners” isn’t an Explanation, it’s an Excuse
2 min read · From 2019 · While this hasn’t happened to any of our portfolio CEOs in a while, there’s one reason for a VC passing on a funding round that just sets me off: “I wanted to do the deal but coul… · Shared by 22, including 👨🏻💻☕️, Dominik Grolimund
First Round
The Inside Story of How This Startup Turned a 216-Word Pitch Email into a $2.6 Billion Acquisition
20+ min read · From 2019 · Looker went from a single customer to more than 1700, from a small, scrappy team in Santa Cruz to a 700-person company spanning eight offices around the globe. Now on the heels of its acquisition by… · Shared by 77, including hiten.eth, Josh Kopelman, JD Prater, Bill Trenchard, Walid Ark, Howard L Morgan, Phin Barnes, Dominik Grolimund
TechCrunch
Here’s how likely your startup is to get acquired at any stage
7 min read · From 2017 · Let’s say you randomly selected 1,000 seed-stage startups based in the United States. How many of those would go on to raise a Series A? Of companies that.. · Shared by 35, including Luis Roig, Mathias Böhm, Dominik Grolimund
thecompanybrief.com
Best Startup Fundraising Advice on Pitch Deck Design
From 2019 · Get advice on startup investor pitch deck structure, design, and templates that top investors from Benchmark, Sequoia Capital, NFX, Greylock, Upfront, First Round Capital, Floodgate, CRV, and more… · Shared by 28, including Thomas Billeter, Dominik Grolimund
Forbes
Five Essential Pitch Tips According To A Legendary Investor Behind Lyft, Slack, And Airbnb
3 min read · From 2019 · Scott Kupor, managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, talks to Carmine Gallo about pitch techniques, storytelling and communication skills. · Shared by 62, including Bernhard Huessy, Adrian🇨🇭, rudolph regter, Dominik Grolimund, Thomas Billeter, Jacob du Toit
unbouncepages.com
SaaS Funding Napkin
2 min read · From 2019 · What does it take to raise capital in SaaS in 2019? · Shared by 145, including Christoph Janz 🇺🇦🎗🕊, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Ben Tossell, Thomas Power, Harsha Mv, Startupxplore, Sofia Quintero, Dominik Grolimund, Martin Rajcan, Malik El Bay 🕊, Adrian🇨🇭, hiten.eth, Stefan T, Andreas Brenner
Atlassian
Opening up our Atlassian Term Sheet
8 min read · From 2019 · The traditional M&A process is broken and favors large companies. So, we're leveling the playing field by releasing our Term Sheet for anyone to see. · Shared by 155, including Yvette Dubel, Mathias Böhm, ashley r 🇺🇦 🇺🇦, Sachin Rekhi, hiten.eth, Jason ✨M.✨ Lemkin, Nils Hitze, Bernhard Huessy, dunschtig, Jonathan Kogan, Thomas Power, Philip Stehlik, Dominik Grolimund
NFX
How VCs Think: The Psychology That Drives Investing Decisions
8 min read · From 2019 · Founders and VCs speak a different language. For Founders, understanding the mindset of VCs is often just as important as understanding the mindset of your customers. · Shared by 22, including Chris Schultz ✌️, Dominik Grolimund
TechCrunch
Startups Weekly: There’s an alternative to raising VC and it’s called revenue-based financing
3 min read · From 2019 · In this week's newsletter: Amazon takes a bite of Deliveroo and Away packs on $100M · Shared by 38, including Dominik Grolimund, Debbie Meier ✍️⚖️
The StartUp
A Ridiculously Detailed Fundraising Guide
10 min read · From 2019 · A Step-by-step system to help secure venture capital · Shared by 63, including David Frankel, Matt, shishir das, Dominik Grolimund, Bernhard Huessy, Startupxplore
medium.com
What do we base our investment decisions on? — Open source Deal memo Template
6 min read · From 2016 · If you look at the process during a startup’s fundraising, there are 3 common steps : · Shared by 39, including Francesco Corea, Christoph Janz 🇺🇦🎗🕊, Quim, David Luescher, David Butler, Mark Kaigwa, Bilal Aslam, Dominik Grolimund
medium.com
How to fundraise like a BOSS
8 min read · From 2019 · 100% of founders agree: raising money is a frustrating, tedious, unpredictable process. The only upside are the memories made in comically… · Shared by 19, including Fred Destin, Dominik Grolimund, Vishal Gulati (I back scientists), Max Niederhofer
