VC Minute
Quick advice to help startup founders fundraise better. Founders, do you feel like you're fundraising on an uneven playing field? You are. The VC minute is here to help you level up. Venture capitalists navigate pitches and negotiate investments every day. They know the ins and outs and are up-to-date on the current funding environment. But as a founder, it may be your first foray into fundraising, and no matter how much success you've had in other areas nothing truly prepares you for the fundraising journey. The VC Minute was created to help founders close this gap. While it may seem like securing an investment at the seed stage is mostly driven by luck, there are steps founders can take to increase the odds of successfully raising a round. And that's what we're going to cover on the VC Minute through a series of short episodes. I'm going to share with you insights to help navigate the seed stage financing dynamics. I'm Rich Maloy, Managing Partner at SpringTime Ventures with 25 years business experience a dozen years in the startup ecosystem. I've applied my experience from sales, finance, and venture investing, to help startup founders fundraise better.
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VC Minute
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270. A Smaller Deck With Less Information
Don't answer every question in your deck. Give just enough information to pique curiosity. About AVL Growth PartnersAVL Growth Partners, founded in 2009, is the leading fractional ...
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269. Inside the Mind of an Investor When There's Too Much Text on the Slide
Let's peer into the spooky world inside a VC's brain when you're pitching with a wall-of-text slide.About AVL Growth PartnersAVL Growth Partners, founded in 2009, is the leading fracti...
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268. Maximum Information in Minimum Words feat. Justin Izzo from Dropbox DocSend
Understanding that you have a very limited amount of time and space to compete for a limited amount of investor attention.About Justin IzzoJustin is the Lead Data and Trends Analyst at Dropbox Docsend and trusted insights pro...
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Episode 268
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267. Too Much or Too Little on the Team Slide feat. Justin Izzo from Dropbox DocSend
The Team slide is your chance to answer the question, "why you?" A handful of logos is no more helpful than two paragraphs of text.About Justin IzzoJustin is the Lead Data and Trends Analyst at Dropbox Docsend and trusted ins...
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Episode 267
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266. From Three Sentences to the Structure of a Solid Pitch, feat. Justin Izzo from Dropbox DocSend
If your pitch deck should form an argument, the best way to formulate that argument is by writing it out in three sentences. About Justin IzzoJustin is the Lead Data and Trends Analyst at Dropbox Docsend and trusted insi...
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Episode 266
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