One of the most frequent fundraising questions I get asked is: when should I raise money? It’s a question that doesn’t come with a one-size-fits-all answer. So, how do you know when the time is right? The answer lies in a simple mantra that founders who have met me have heard me say: “When you …
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.
Raising venture capital is so much more than building a pitch deck. So, why are there so few resources to help founders understand what venture capital is, how it behaves and why, and – most importantly – what it expects of a founder. Don’t wait to learn about your investor after you’ve already cashed their …
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 …
What to Include in Your Pitch Deck: The #1 Slide You Need Read More »
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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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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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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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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