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You Can’t Rely on a VC for Your Hardest Decisions

Both Sides of the Table

Consultants should provide you data & frameworks – not decisions. Document management? In my view the best VCs are merely your guides. They are your sparring partners. They are there to help you correct your course when you want to make decisions that their history and wisdom tells them might lead you into a dark alley.

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14 Methods for Ensuring Accountability Within Startup Teams

Startup Blogpost

They have an opportunity to set realistic expectations for achievable goals. If they don’t achieve their goals, you have an opportunity to work with them to reset expectations based on what they learned. To help achieve this, the ‘OKR’ (Objectives and Key Results) framework can serve as an effective technique.

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Norebase raises $1M to allow companies start, scale, and operate in any African country

TechCrunch

But in 2019, various policymakers across different parts of the continent signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement — a framework for Africa to be a single market for trade and services — to make intra-trade less painful (side note: the agreement is yet to make any significant impact.).

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Virtual Data Rooms: The Unsung Hero of Biotech Financing

Andreessen Horowitz

Together, these documents will help distill not only your vision for the current fundraise, but more broadly the long-term differentiation and trajectory of your company. Pipeline prioritization framework Top-down or bottom-up? How much of the total financing is allocated towards the lead program?

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How to Handle a VC Presentation with No Deck

Both Sides of the Table

Use it as a framework for a dialog not a script. “Here’s how you upload a document. Talk about the existing solutions, the market opportunity and the competition. Be ready to map your presentation to their preferred method. It’s why I wrote that the best meetings are debates and not pitches.

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Zambian card issuing startup Union54 raises $12M led by Tiger Global

TechCrunch

There’s a significant opportunity as the world realigns itself; we need to get to a point where we’ve got a payments route that needs to be developed locally for local use.” The company plans to get nine central banks to establish this framework by the end of the year towards a pilot by Q2 2023.

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Why Startups Really Fail, and How To Fix It

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Opportunities are simply opportunities and not long-term plans. Treat it like an open document: In an early phase, I recommend reviewing the document monthly and changing it if necessary, then every quarter in line with the team’s short-term objectives and new market insights. Just not too often. The others die.

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