Spreadsheets, not Pitch Decks
The lore of the pitch deck and the theatre of the demo day are receding into the background and are being replaced with the rigors of building a thoughtful financial model.
A VC Mini-Course for Founders
As a tech founder, raising venture capital has become as commonplace as building an MVP. As I’m sure you’ve noticed, though, resources for building your MVP are plentiful, but there are very few resources to help you understand what venture capital is, how it behaves and why, and – most importantly – what it expects …
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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How to Build Your Pitch Deck and Raise Venture Capital
I’ve been working with founders for nearly 25 years. As their attorney, as a co-founder and now as a venture capitalist. At GrowthX, we’ve invested in nearly 50 seed stage companies.. One of the most common mistakes I see founders make is trying to build their pitch deck without first building a storyboard. Your 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 around the world to help them make their programs stronger, and we run The Revenue Accelerator. Because …
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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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