advice document pitching 
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2018
the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever get I’m about to offer you some fund-raising advice that flies directly in the face of what most conventional wisdom will tell you. These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.” It doesn’t.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
You know that every turn of the legal documents can add weeks. They’re not bothered when the lawyers didn’t get the documents out when they promised. If they promised they’d ship documents and they weren’t released I’d be straight on the phone with them. Push hard to document turns. Decide what’s important to you.
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
APRIL 14, 2021
Instead, we saw competitors supporting each other by giving advice and feedback. We’re grateful to GSEA for providing this wonderful platform and letting us document it.”. As business owners, we constantly have new ideas for films we’d like to make–so we’re out there pitching, much like the GSEA competitors.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 15, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. M y company had raised a seed round of capital in late 1999 even before either of us were full time in the company (ominous side note: on the way to pitch our seed investor, Delta Partners, a man walking right in front of me died of a massive heart attack making me late to the meeting.
This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
Back when I was pitching my previous startup to investors, it had never really dawned on me that they had experienced what I was going through--and that a VC firm was essentially a startup. VCs pitch for money, too. No one ever thinks about VCs having to pitch, who they pitch to, or how it works.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 17, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series “ Pitching a VC “ There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice. That prompted Fred Wilson’s blog post appealing to the industry to make these simplified term sheets standard.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
This is one of the lessons I wish I understood when raising a Series B, so I hope you find this advice helpful when you navigate your larger raises. You want to proactively manage the order in which people access information and focus their attention on a few key documents that they can return to when they fall down a rabbit hole.
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