Here are the five primary reasons why your accelerator needs go-to-market programming (including a detailed guide to help you implement best practices today). 1. Your founders need a go-to-market strategy to satisfy the new standard of investor-readiness. Times have changed for accelerators. It’s no longer enough to help your founders build their pitch deck, organize …
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When reviewing your pitch deck, investors are looking to quickly assess whether or not you’re a good fit for what they invest in and at what stage they invest, and then to qualify whether or not you merit a deeper look that includes an initial meeting. Your pitch deck is not being used by an …
The most important slide in your pitch deck is the one slide that is most often missing, buried or has the least amount of useful detail. Every pitch deck I see includes a slide showing off an ulta-large Total Addressable Market. It shows a number with lots of trailing zeros in 35-point font. This top-down …
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At GrowthX Capital, we see 500+ pitch decks every year. While we see a huge variety of pitch decks, there are a handful of mistakes founders consistently make that will cause investors to lose interest. This blog post explores three of the most common mistakes we see, so you know how to create a pitch …
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If you’re in the early stages of selling a SaaS product and don’t yet have product-market fit, you’ve probably got the acronym backwards. At early stages, the acronym SaaS stands for Service as a Software (not, Software as a Service). It’s not your technology that wins, but the insights you generate by seeking fit with …
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It’s never too soon for founders to start regularly publishing a brief update to your stakeholder community (i.e., investor updates). As a venture investor, I have found a direct correlation between my top-performing companies and those founders who regularly update us on their ups and downs. Here’s a quick primer on why to start, who …
At GrowthX, we sit at a unique position in the startup ecosystem. As a venture capital fund, we work with graduates of accelerator programs around the world to evaluate their fit for us. We also partner with accelerators to help them make their programs stronger, and we run The Revenue Accelerator. Because of this unique …
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Think about your work email inbox for a second. Every day, other businesses are reaching out to you. What do you typically do with those messages and emails? We bet you delete them. But, why do you delete them? Because the email writer clearly doesn’t know who you are or why you would need these …
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Once you launch your go-to-market strategy, you shouldn’t have to wait until the end to find out if you’ve been successful. What does a successful go-to-market strategy look like? There are several checkpoints along the way that will tell you whether your go-to-market strategy is on the right track. Many founders go through each phase …
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As an accelerator operator or program manager you work hard to make sure that your startups are all “investor-ready.” Until now, that meant helping them craft their investor narrative, build their pitch deck, organize their data room and prepare for demo day. But times have changed. There are now more accelerators operating around the world. …
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