Wrapping up the week with great advice from Saba Karim - don't email people asking if you can send them the deck, just send them the deck. That's the purpose of it. Send it!
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Listen/watch the Rich on RiderFlex podcast: https://anchor.fm/riderflex/episodes/Rich-Maloy--Managing-Partner-SpringTime-Ventures--Riderflex-e1l6ms4
About SpringTime Ventures
SpringTime Ventures seeds high-growth startups in healthcare, fintech, logistics, and marketplace businesses. We look for founders with domain expertise, forging a path with a truly transformative technology. We only invest in software-based businesses in the USA. We bring a people-focused approach, work quickly, and reach conviction independently. Our initial check size is $400k to $600k. You can learn more about us and our approach.
About Rich Maloy
Rich's mission is to rebuild the American dream through entrepreneurship. He works with early stage startups transforming the world, giving all people the opportunity to grow, learn and earn. With prior careers in finance and sales, he's now focused on startups investing through SpringTime Ventures where he is a Managing Partner. He's a father of two young children and loves sci-fi, skiing, and video games.
Rich:
Hey, happy Friday, everybody. Another week of VC Minute. I have so much more to say about pitch decks, but I think we'll cap it for there for now. Last thing I'm going to add, and this is advice from my buddy Saba Karim, who is the Fund Manager for Techstars Rising Stars Fund, as well as the Director of Global Startup Pipeline for Techstars. He's been with the Techstars organization for a long time. Everybody should be following him on Twitter and on LinkedIn, he puts out a ton of great content. One of the things that he says is just ask the ask. He says things to avoid when reaching out for help asking if you can ask a question, asking if you can send a deck, and asking if somebody can do you a favor. Just ask the question, send the deck and ask the favor. I love this advice from Saba. So, don't email people asking if you can send them the deck, just send them the deck. That's the purpose of it. Send it! And one more shout out this week to Steve Urban and the RiderFlex podcast. I was interviewed by them and the podcast just came out and this was a very personal interview. Thanks to Steve for his great questions and really digging in on more of who Rich Maloy is and my background and some of my family and backstory. And so if that's something that you're interested in hearing about, check it out we'll put a link on the website and the link in the show notes of this episode. So with that, thanks again for listening this week, time is our most precious asset and I appreciate that you'd spend more of it with me.