Fundraising

Make it easy for people to introduce you Friends who make intros are doing you a favor. Write the intro email so they can just copy and paste. Here’s the email we asked friends to send investors:

I was just reminded that for our Series A, we sent a questionnaire to the investors we were considering to understand if we have alignment. Then the investor needed to write a doc or a presentation explaining their answers and thinking.

In order to build conviction, we rely on founders to tell us a compelling story, almost always in the form of slides. We’ve funded companies almost entirely because of the quality of their seed decks. Poor deck? We’ll likely pass on the opportunity.

founding a startup means committing 5+ years of your life to something especially when you raise vc money here are 3 things to know before going after vc funding:

There is no ideal pitch deck. The narrative depends on what you’re building—but I really like this one: 1. Vision for the world in 5 years 2. The novel wedge that will get you there 3. How you plan to distribute it 4. What could go wrong 5. What you’ll prove by the time you need…