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The Eight Best Questions We Got While Raising Venture Capital

VCs are good at asking questions. They are unimplicated in your dumb decisions, unmoved by your original sense of mission and far less concerned than you that a blunder could bankrupt you. They re-imagine your business in terms of all the other businesses they’ve seen, pulling the arms off one doll and the head off another to create a perfect money-making Frankenstein. And since the stakes are high, the whole philosophical exercise tends to result in action.

Here are the questions VCs asked Redfin that changed how we think about our business.

1. What’s your deadly sin? Sequoia’s Roelof Botha
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Raising Seed Investment for Africa focused Tech Startups

(This article is focused on raising money for startups with an African focus but it contains some great generic advice on for all startups on needed steps before spending considerable time in fundraising.) This first step is actually common everywhere, entrepreneurs think they deserve financing when its just an idea in their head all the way up to startups showing significant progress but are probably stalling and need significant technical/business help and capital infusion to grow their venture. Also fundraising takes a significant a
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Investor Presentation On A Napkin

Investor Presentation Guidelines (The 7P’s you can do it on a napkin!) Southwest Airlines business plan was conceived on a cocktail napkin. Compaq Co
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Pitching Hacks at Stanford – Venture Hacks

This is a talk on pitching startups to Investors given to students in Stanford’s business plan competition. Lots of good advice.

The talk was reco
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How To Avoid Making A Bad Pitch – WSJ

All venture capitalists have probably experienced a bad pitch from an entrepreneur. But a couple years ago, the team at Canaan Partners heard a real
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Pitching to VC’s : Kentucky Startup Blog

At the Techcrunch 50 event, they had a panel of VC’s answering 20 questions on a wide variety of subjects. You can read the full text here or watch
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BeyondVC: Tips for the first VC Meeting

I had a meeting last week where an entrepreneur insisted on showing me a demo first. He was scrambling around asking for wireless keys and looking f
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David S. Rose on pitching to VCs | Video on TED.com

Thinking startup? David S. Rose’s rapid-fire TED U talk on pitching to a venture capitalist tells you the 10 things you need to know about yourself
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Making a Good First Impression – Bob Goff, Founder and President, Sierra Angels

It is important to remember that you often have only one opportunity to make a good impression on potential investors, so you need to ensure you have
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Guidelines for Entrepreneur’s Presentations — Tech Coast Angels

A topic by topic guideline to preparing a typical, short investor pitch. From one of the most successful Angel groups.
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