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Instead of gathering dusts in my bookmarks I have compiled them into one guide:
With: @gaganbiyani @RomeenSheth @josephflaherty @yoheinakajima @daytonmills @micahjay1 @paigefinnn @dunkhippo33 @amanda_robs @pinverrr
1/10. Adjusting your mental mode to the process of
At Udemy, we were 3 first-time entrepreneurs trying to raise seed capital. We made every mistake in the book.
— Gagan Biyani (@gaganbiyani) October 7, 2020
We got 200+ no\u2019s and wasted 12 months fundraising.
We eventually pulled through, just barely. \U0001f605
This thread shares our mistakes as lessons for founders.
**Read On**
2/10. Fundamentals for building the slide
0/ There\u2019s a lot of noise on how to pitch your startup.
— Romeen Sheth (@RomeenSheth) January 5, 2021
Keep it simple. Every good pitch boils down to five ingredients. If you have all 5, you'll get funded. Miss 1 and it can be fatal.
I made a chart describing how the ingredients relate to each other.
Let's dig in \U0001f447 pic.twitter.com/pSeH8yzfKp
3/10. How to craft the most important slide in the
Every pitch deck needs a \u201cteam\u201d slide.
— Joseph Flaherty (@josephflaherty) January 31, 2020
At the early stage of a startup when the product concept is fuzzy and revenue is non-existent, VCs are essentially backing the team above all else.
But almost all team slides are sub-optimal.
Here are two ways they could be better:
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4/10. One way of raising a seed round:
How to raise a seed round. Just one process, adjust accordingly. Missing lots of nuance. \U0001f447
— Yohei Nakajima \U0001f64b\U0001f3fb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f (@yoheinakajima) December 20, 2020