StartUpNV teaches you to understand how and what you need to show investors about your market, TAM/SAM/SOM. Utilize additional resources to help round out your market research.
TAM SAM SOM – How to Prepare and Present Market Potential to Investors Read More »
The Term Sheet is the document that starts it all. Crafting a term sheet is how most of the real negotiation between investors and company occurs. This book on Term Sheets and Deal Documents will outline key concepts you should master so you will become a better, more informed investor. Or, if you’re an entrepreneur, you can understand what investors are looking for.
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There is a lot of mystifying language and terminology used by experienced founders, investors, term sheets, and investing documents. But, it all revolves around just two issues: money and control. Jeff Saling will help unpack common startup investment language and terminology and help founders, investors, and the curious to understand what the terms mean, how they work together, and what the implications are for founders and startup investor(s).
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Y Combinator Partner Eric Migicovsky shares a framework for asking questions and collecting feedback from your users. Watch this if:
You haven’t started talking to users yet
Your users are asking for conflicting features
You aren’t getting valuable information from talking with users
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David Rusenko, Co-founder of Weebly (YC W07), details the story of how Weebly developed one of the most popular website creation and hosting sites on the web today.
Product Market Fit Read More »
Learn the what to do and what not to do from StartUpNV’s Maggie Saling
This video covers how to create a startup pitch deck for investors. Dig deep into the standard pitch deck outline most companies are using these days, and we’ll give you some guidance as to what information and in what format should be included on your document.
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Greg Gibson co-founder and CEO at Metadata Mechanics — with long experience raising money for his startups, explains how creating a 1 minute story about your startup is critical for raising capital. You must make an emotional and logical connection in order to have investors really “tune in” to your pitch beyond the first minute.
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Building a Great Investor Summary. Learn to build an Investor Summary – not an Executive Summary. Answer just enough of what an angel investor wants to know in order to meet with you, but not so much that it’s overwhelming or verbose. Learn how to prepare your “deal room” to make due diligence as easy and fast as possible. Don’t be in a position where you get a verbal “yes”, then can’t close.
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The Investor Pitch Deck. Learn the 12 topics a founder/entrepreneur should cover in a 10 or 20 minute initial pitch to angel or venture investors.
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