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I've recently been overseeing a startup fundraise. And have tracked the amount of time investors, particularly VCs spend on pitch decks and accompanying documents. You know where they've spent the most time? Problem Solution Competition Team In other words: - What are these guys trying to solve - How are they trying to solve it - Who else is or has tried to do it - Are these guys the right people to do it Pre-seed startup raising in the UK, Europe and US. Top tip: Forget Docsend, use Papermark free to use and way less clunky.

I recently heard a story about some young founders trying to raise funding for their startup. They were eager to raise fund, but when being asked: Do you have traction? No Oke, Do you have a product yet? No Do you have any special skills/track-record? No What they only have is the pitchdeck, they think that is the ultimate thing that need to focus on. Sometimes, these cases make me really confuse on what school teach them on how to actually do startup. Building something, get users, talk to them, improve it is not that hard given all the tool we have today. So Pls focus on shipping and doing the business, good news is that investors/VC will only invest in good founder/business. And to fund raise, at least in my experience there is no investor dumb enough to throw money in a "just a pitch deck"

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Damn that hurts (again and again)! The third of the top five lessons (some would call it “tuition”) I wish I knew before starting my journey as an investment banker. No more than 10% of our capital raises should be for startup companies. Only 1 in 800 startups get VC funding. Even if I was 100x better than that at raising capital from VC’s, my track record of success would only be 1 in 8. I can’t pay the bills with that. So, unless your capital raise intersects with a passion of mine, you are a friend of mine or you have the ability to engage professional digital marketing in your raise, we won’t raise capital for your startup.?

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The State of Fundraising Q2 2024: 1. Startup Fundraising Market in 2024: A Cautious Start by Founders Network 2. State of the Markets H2 2024 by SVB 3. State of Private Markets: Q2 2024 by Hamza S. at Carta 4. DocSend’s 2024 Funding Divide Report: The gap for underrepresented founders widens by Dropbox DocSend 5. State of pre-seed: Q2 2024 by??Hamza S., Kevin Dowd at Carta 6. McKinsey Global Private Markets Review 2024: Private markets in a slower era by McKinsey & Company 7. North American Startup Funding Jumped Higher In Q2 by Crunchbase Substack Link: https://lnkd.in/e_Tujf_n

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