Are you Ready to Raise Capital?
Raising too early is expensive. Learn how B2B founders tell whether they are truly ready to raise by assessing focus, traction, and go-to-market discipline instead of relying on momentum or a compelling story alone.
Spreadsheets, not Pitch Decks
Pitch decks tell stories, spreadsheets tell the truth. Learn why B2B founders should rely on simple spreadsheets to understand revenue, pressure-test assumptions, and make better go-to-market and fundraising decisions earlier.
What Do Investors Look for in a Pitch Deck
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 …
What to Include in Your Pitch Deck: The #1 Slide You Need
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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3 Biggest Mistakes Founders Make when Creating a Pitch Deck
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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A Founder’s Guide to Investor Updates
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 …
How accelerators can help startups raise more capital faster
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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3 Ways Accelerators Can Help Founders Become Investor-Ready
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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It’s Time to Reconsider Startups and Venture Capital [Gil Beyda]
Gil Beyda, a partner at Comcast Ventures, recently contributed this important article for TechCrunch detailing the myriad reasons why startups should consider taking capital from corporate venture capital. Sure, he’s a corporate venture capitalist, so you would expect that viewpoint. But, the venture capital fund that I co-founded, GrowthX, is traditional venture capital (not corporate) …
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