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Updating Your Seed Investors – Board Deck & Update Email Templates

View from Seed

Although many of these investors aim to actively help the company, the dynamics of the syndicate combined with the entrepreneurs’ preference result in a situation where there isn’t a regular assembling for a formal meeting. Along those lines, opening with a TLDR section brings the important items to the forefront.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. Later stage investors are using for sourcing private company marketplace services focused on more established companies, listed below under “Step 11: Exit”. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. ExitRound helps early stage companies identify buyers.

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5 Questions VCs Never Answer, Answered by a VC | #BOSSOI

View from Seed

Our investment size may differ slightly from one company to the next, but it tends to be driven entirely by situation-specific factors (needs of the company, syndicate composition, anticipated reserves, etc) … and not based on our belief. For SaaS: At least $100K in MRR. For ecommerce: >$500K revenue/month.

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The “reverse” pitch: Who should you have on your cap table?

Version One Ventures

Some of the best later-stage investors walk founders through an institutionalized “reverse” pitch. In the meantime, we’d love to hear how you decided on your investor syndicate? When we think about pitches, most of the focus is on entrepreneurs pitching investors for capital. What reverse pitch resonated with you?