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Raising Money
from Investors

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

Pitching to Investors

  • Pitching to Angel Investors, Vancouver Angel Technology Network (VANTEC)
  • Investor Pitch Deck Tips for Startups
  • ​Canada Startup Visa information, VANTEC
  • The Myths of Follow-on Investing Debunked, Elizabeth Yin blog

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)
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4-year Founder Vesting. Image Credit: Jake Jolis
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8-year Founder Vesting. Image Credit: Jake Jolis

Also of Interest

  • A Complete Guide to Startup Advisors and Mentors
  • Startup Advisors: How Much Compensation / Equity to Give
  • Holloway Guide to Equity Compensation
  • Startups Don't Have to Fail, Irwin Stein​
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