Curated Resources:
Kickstart Your Fundraising
- Using Customer Discovery to Help Your Startup Raise Money (The 6% Rule)
- Why Most Entrepreneurs Hate Fundraising (and How to Fix It)
- The Three Words No Early Stage VC Wants to Hear, Aaron Dinin, Medium
- How to Determine the Amount to Raise in Your Financing Round (YouTube)
- A Large Equity Financing Can Kill Your SaaS Business: Two different paths to growth and outlines ways founders can identify whether equity capital will help or hinder their business in the long run, Michael Walkinshaw, TIMIA Capital
- Why I'll Sometimes Fund a Startup and Tell Them to Stop Making Money, Hunter Walk, March 2019
- The 1 Reason Investors Are Ignoring Your Startup Opportunity (Hint: Research)
- An Investor's Take on Investing in SaaS KPIs - Worthy Investments
- Should You Pay $50K for your Pitch Deck? Yes, Why the Hell Not?
- Startups Don't Have to Fail, Irwin Stein
- 22 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Pitching to Investors
- 5 Things Entrepreneurs Must Keep In Mind When Fundraising, Alejandro Cremades
- 11 Fundraising Ideas for Entrepreneurs Who Don't Want VC Money
- Pre-Seed vs. Seed Funding: Understanding the Benefits
- The Five Pillars of Seed Stage Funding
- How SaaS Startups Go From Seed Funding to Series A - very good!
- Series A, B,C Funding: Averages, Investors, Valuations, Fundz
- There are Only 3 Startup Stages, Gil Dibner, Angular Ventures
- The SaaS Metrics That Led to a $10M Series A
- Sample VC Due Diligence Request / Checklist, Cooley (PDF)
- CrossBeam Announces $25M Series B to Keep Growing Platform, TechCrunch
- Growth and Traction for Early Stage Startups Seeking Fundraising, Seedcamp
- The Rise of the Seed II Round (and Why It's Great for Enterprise Founders), Jessica Lin, WorkBench - Excellent!
- Proprietary Deal Flow is Dead: The Future of VC is Proprietary Insights (- due diligence from a Corporate Network, Panel, Scouting, Portals or Events in a Thematic Area of Interest), Jonathan Lehr, WorkBench - Excellent!
- A Peek Inside Sequoia's Low-Flying Wide Reaching Program, TechCrunch
Valuation & Vesting & Cap Tables
- Plan Ahead to Achieve Valuation Step-Ups, Forbes - Excellent!
- How Startup Valuation Works (InfoGraphic + Explanatory Text), Adioma - Excellent!
- 4-Year Founder Investing is Dead, Jake Jolis, in ExtraCrunch
- 4 Things Investors Secretly Look for in Your Cap Table
- Startup Cap Table (4-year vs. 8-year vesting) (see pie chart)
4-year Founder Vesting. Image Credit: Jake Jolis
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8-year Founder Vesting. Image Credit: Jake Jolis
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