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
TechCrunch
Lessons From A Study of Perfect Pitch Decks: VCs Spend An Average of 3 Minutes, 44 Seconds On Them
4 min · · DocSend, a startup that provides people with a secure and private way of sharing files like offer letters or legal agreements, studied more than 200 pitchdecks to figure out the right way to… · Shared by 396, including Mike Butcher, Marc Gasser, Clemens M. Schuster, Marc Steffen, Jeremy Caplan, Moritz Meenen, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Mark Kaigwa, Stephanie A Kowalski, Thomas Power, Dominik Grolimund, Reto Laemmler, David Luescher, Rodrigo Prior, Peter Hogenkamp, Sara Usinger, Courtney Bolton ★, Alex Barrera, Greg Meyer, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷
Christoph Janz 🇺🇦🎗🕊
Five ways to build a $100 million business
5 min · · Some time ago my friend (and co-investor in Clio , Jobber and Unbounce ) Boris Wertz wrote a great blog post about "the only 2 ways to bui... · Shared by 353, including Mike Ivars, Flavio Rump, Philipp Laurim, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Dominik Grolimund, Sara Usinger, Colin Jones, Jacob Jarnvall, Malik El Bay 🕊🔰🇲🇦, Chris Schultz✌️ & ❤️, Kevan Lee 👋, Luis Roig | @darum@indieweb.social, Marco Unternaehrer, Ethan Anderson, Hugo Corbucci, bouiboui, Patrick Scheuerer, Startupxplore, Daniel Lawniczak
Christoph Janz 🇺🇦🎗🕊
The Angel VC: SaaS Financial Plan 2.0
6 min · · Almost exactly four years ago I published a financial plan template for SaaS startups based on a model that I had created for Zendesk a ... · Shared by 131, including Philipp Laurim, Philip Stehlik, Rodrigo Prior, Agustin, Mathias Böhm, Dominik Grolimund, Mathias Brenner, Myke Näf, Liza Sperling, Quim, Harsha Mv, Jacob Jarnvall, Mark Pitman, Thomas Power, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Esther Schindler, Greg Meyer, Paul Sturrock, Walid Ark
Mark Suster
How Much Should You Raise in Your VC Round? And What is a VC Looking at in Your Model?
9 min · · There’s a quick litmus-test conversation any early-stage VC will have with the founder and it’s one that you should be as prepared for as… · Shared by 55, including Peak Capital, Dominik Grolimund, Thomas Power, Remy Bataille, Vinish Garg 🎗, Jim Mayes, FinTech Connector
Y Combinator
Fundraising Rounds Are Not Milestones
1 min · · Raising a round should be a byproduct of success. By deemphasizing investment rounds we would have more opportunity to celebrate companies who develop measurable milestones of value creation, focus on serving a customer with a real need, and generate sustainable businesses with good margins. · Shared by 42, including Leslie D, Thomas Power, Andreas Brenner, David Luescher, Martina Grolimund, srinivas, Dominik Grolimund
Y Combinator
Fundraising Advice for YC Companies
4 min · · We've modified our fundraising strategy advice to YC founders. In the interest of everyone having the same information, here is the email I sent to the current batch this... · Shared by 60, including dpmab, Sara Usinger, Leo Polovets, Dominik Grolimund, Nico Luchsinger, Jacob Jarnvall, Malik El Bay 🕊🔰🇲🇦, Marcus Kuhn, Andreas Brenner, Richard MacManus
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Convertible and SAFE Notes
3 min · · Angel/seed rounds used to be done via priced equity securities, either common or preferred. Then, starting about ten years ago, we started to see convertible debt being used in the angel and seed… · Shared by 61, including Ben Tossell, Marcus Kuhn, Vinny Lingham, Chris Messina, Dominik Grolimund, Leslie D, Martin Rajcan
Y Combinator
Startup Documents
3 min · · Information about startup documents, including the safe (simple agreement for future equity). · Shared by 104, including Jonathan Kogan, Marcus Kuhn, Marc Zenger, Lọlá Ákínmádé, Ibrahim Nergiz, Elizabeth Yin 💛, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Philipp Laurim, Dominik Grolimund, Dave Kellogg, Myke Näf, bouiboui, Mark Pitman, Dom Zuend, Malik El Bay 🕊🔰🇲🇦, Moritz Meenen
Paul Graham
How to Raise Money
Summary · 20+ min · · September 2013Most startups that raise money do it more than once. A typical trajectory might be (1) to get started with a few tens of thousands from something like Y Combinator or individual angels,… · Shared by 141, including Paulmears, Tom Howard ✈️ 🇺🇸 NYC BOS DC SF CHI FL, ron boger, Andreas Brenner, Thomas Kaul, Dominik Grolimund, Stefan Weber, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Marc Zenger, Veronika Lampion, Jacob Jarnvall, Mathis Büchi, Steed Monteiro, Thomas Power, Arin Basu, Stefano ₿Ξrnardi 🌲🏴
Y Combinator
A Guide to Seed Fundraising
20+ min · · Read more on Y Combinator's blog. · Shared by 124, including Brian T. Edwards, Adrian🇨🇭, Steed Monteiro, Edwin Reynoso, Dominik Grolimund, Startupxplore, Luis Roig | @darum@indieweb.social, Philipp Laurim, Jared Schaffer, Walid Ark, Jacob Jarnvall, David Luescher, GeoNomad, Martijn, Rodrigo Prior, Vikram Dutt, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Patrik Breitenmoser 🏌️♀️, Mwirabua Tim
Sam Altman
Startup Playbook
Summary · 20+ min · · Written by Sam Altman · Illustrated by Gregory Koberger · Spanish translationWe spend a lot of time advising startups. Though one-on-one advice will always be crucial, we thought it might help us… · Shared by 1890, including Sergio Caredda, Lord Travis Wright, Mark Kaigwa, Chris Messina, Herbert Bay, Mark Bao, Moritz Meenen, Zee, Raul Tiru 🌎, Courtney Bolton ★, Sunnie J. Groeneveld, Philip Junker, designshard, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, L. Taylor Banks, AdrianLocher, John Battelle, David Smooke, Jeff Chang, Nir Eyal