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
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 1888, 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
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 395, 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 352, 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
Atlassian
Opening up our Atlassian Term Sheet
8 min · · 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 218, including Yvette Dubel, Mathias Böhm, ashley 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦, Sachin Rekhi, hiten.eth, Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin , Jonathan Kogan, Bernhard Huessy, dunschtig, Philip Stehlik, Thomas Power, Nils Hitze, Dominik Grolimund
unbouncepages.com
SaaS Funding Napkin
2 min · · What does it take to raise capital in SaaS in 2019? · Shared by 203, including Christoph Janz 🇺🇦🎗🕊, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Ben Tossell, Thomas Power, Harsha Mv, Startupxplore, Sofia Quintero, Dominik Grolimund, Martin Rajcan, Andreas Brenner, Adrian🇨🇭, hiten.eth, Stefan T, Malik El Bay 🕊🔰🇲🇦
NFX
How I Raised VC From Top-Tier Funds
16+ min · · 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 158, including Dominik Grolimund, Jonathan Kogan, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Peter Kazanjy, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙
a16z
When Entry Multiples Don't Matter
12+ min · · 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 142, including Michael Carroll, Dominik Grolimund, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Ha Duong, Kevin Roberts, Matthias Kahr, Mattia Fregola 🤔
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 🌲🏴
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 130, 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
Forbes
Five Essential Pitch Tips According To A Legendary Investor Behind Lyft, Slack, And Airbnb
3 min · · Scott Kupor, managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, talks to Carmine Gallo about pitch techniques, storytelling and communication skills. · Shared by 128, including Bernhard Huessy, Adrian🇨🇭, rudolph regter, Dominik Grolimund, Thomas Billeter, Jacob du Toit
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
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
investorlist.co
investorlist.co - A crowdsourced list of investors, in EU & worldwide.
· Shared by 100, including uri, Flavio Rump, Malik El Bay 🕊🔰🇲🇦, Courtney Bolton ★, Dominik Grolimund, Moritz Meenen, Bryan Onel, Mo Schuster, Mike Ivars, @pdehello.bsky.social, Veronika Lampion, Dom Zuend, Jonathan Kogan, dpmab, shishir das, Ibrahim Nergiz, Philipp Laurim, The App Brewery
a16z
16 Definitions on the Economics of VC
12+ min · · I wrote a post last week about the challenges in valuing portfolio companies in venture capital that I thought was wonky and inside baseball. But when I got lots of follow-up questions from people, I… · Shared by 95, including Vikram Dutt, Ben Tossell, hiten.eth, Chung, Patrick Walsh, Startupxplore, Mark Kaigwa, Dominik Grolimund
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
First Round
The Inside Story of How This Startup Turned a 216-Word Pitch Email into a $2.6 Billion Acquisition
20+ min · · 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