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
Sam Altman
Party rounds
2 min · · There is a recent trend in Silicon Valley towards party rounds—in early financing rounds, instead of raising large amounts of money from a few large investors, companies are instead raising small... · Shared by 9, including Dominik Grolimund
steve blank
Steve Blank Startup Stock Options
9 min · · A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. In doing so they may have removed one o… · Shared by 65, including Thomas Power, Dominik Grolimund, Chris Schultz✌️ & ❤️, Ryan Hoover, Stefan Weber
medium.com
Monitoring a Seed Stage SaaS Business
2 min · · 9 tactics for founders to monitor marketing, sales and customer success activities + 3 key profitability ratios … all presented in 45… · Shared by 59, including Dominik Grolimund, Christoph Janz 🇺🇦🎗🕊, Kate Donahue, Mark Kaigwa, Inês Silva, Agustin, Quim, Adrian🇨🇭
Mark Suster
How to Talk About Valuation When a VC Asks
10 min · · One of the hardest things about the fund-raising process for entrepreneurs is that you’re trying to raise money from people who have… · Shared by 91, including Adrian🇨🇭, cackles (jeff weisbein), Thomas Power, David Butler, Philippe, Peak Capital, Dominik Grolimund, Philip Stehlik, Martijn
Elizabeth Yin 💛
7 tips for cold-emailing investors - Bringing transparency to seed investing...
3 min · · In the past, the venture industry was a closed club all-around. If you wanted to meet with a VC firm, you needed a warm introduction. Today, most investors would still prefer warm introductions, but... · Shared by 15, including Dominik Grolimund, Veronika Lampion, Adrian🇨🇭
Elizabeth Yin 💛
If your VC meeting feels like it went well, it...
4 min · · “So how do you think your meeting went?”
“Oh, it went really well!”
This is a typical conversation I’ll have with portfolio founder about his/her meeting with another seed venture capitalist (VC).
One... · Shared by 6, including Dominik Grolimund
Y Combinator
How to Raise Money, and How to Succeed Long-Term
1 min · · Jess Lee (Partner at Sequoia Capital) and Aaron Harris (Partner at YC) discuss raising money as an early stage company, and how to think about the fundraising process. Ali Rowghani (CEO of YC… · Shared by 12, including Dominik Grolimund, Thomas Power
youtube.com
Lecture 9 - How to Raise Money (Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, Parker Conrad)
· Lecture Transcript: http://tech.genius.com/Marc-andreessen-lecture-9-how-to-raise-money-annotated Sam leads a panel Q&A on Fundraising in this lecture with M... · Shared by 15, including Marc Zenger, Dominik Grolimund, Moritz Meenen, Andreas Brenner
slideshare.net
VC Fundraising 101
· This workshop as presented at Startsummit in St Gallen in April 2015 covers the basics of planning and executing a fundraising round involving institutional in… · Shared by 17, including Malik El Bay 🕊🔰🇲🇦, Daniel Lawniczak, Dominik Grolimund, Marc Zenger, dpmab
David @ NextView
The Shape of Traction (Part II: How Much Traction Do I Need to Raise a Round of Financing?)
5 min · · A couple weeks ago, my partner Rob penned a blog post about the “shape of traction” which really resonated with a number of folks. The quick summary is that the shape of a startup’s traction (with time/product-quality on the x axis and traction on the y axis) and isn’t at all a linear path. Rather, […] · Shared by 16, including Veronika Lampion, Rodrigo Prior, Dominik Grolimund
medium.com
Should I Raise Angel, Seed, or Series A? — Startups, Straight up — Medium
2 min · · What can be said about fundraising that hasn’t been said already? · Shared by 17, including Andreas Brenner, Clemens, Moritz von Hase, Malik El Bay 🕊🔰🇲🇦, Dominik Grolimund
Elizabeth Yin 💛
How do seed investors benchmark startups? - Bringing transparency to seed investing...
6 min · · It’s all very confusing to understand how investors benchmark different kinds of companies. When I was an entrepreneur, I had no idea how this all worked. How does a social app such as Snapchat get... · Shared by 17, including justin, Dominik Grolimund, Leslie D, Veronika Lampion
Y Combinator
A Guide to Preemptive Funding Offers
3 min · · Unprepared founders can get trapped by the dynamics of a preemptive offer and forced into suboptimal outcomes. If you find yourself in a situation where you think you are getting preempted, here’s… · Shared by 22, including Dominik Grolimund, David Luescher, Elad Gil
aaronkharris.com
Bad Terms - Aaron's Blog
5 min · · Every startup fundraising process is influenced by the balance of power between the founder and the investor. When the founder has a company that is doing incredibly well, and is being chased by... · Shared by 17, including Startupxplore, Dominik Grolimund
Elizabeth Yin 💛
Why I cringe when you say you’re raising a $1.5m...
3 min · · “We’re raising $1.5m.”
I cringe. There’s nothing inherently wrong with raising $1.5m…UNLESS you have not thought about your raise strategically (99.9% of entrepreneurs I meet with).
Most entrepreneurs... · Shared by 29, including Chris Mansfield, Daniel Lawniczak, Dominik Grolimund, Marcus Kuhn
Elizabeth Yin 💛
How to close investors - Bringing transparency to seed investing...
4 min · · Your round isn’t anywhere near closed unless you have enough investors who are very serious about investing. However, it can often be difficult to figure out if an investor is actually serious about... · Shared by 24, including Leslie D, Chris Messina, Dominik Grolimund, Ben Tossell