The Best of Founder/Investor/Expert Q&A #4
Jock Fairweather ??
I help founders uncover their early believers and turn them into incredible advocates.
Hi team,
Here's a snippet from the Community VC ecosystem of who said what between experts/investors and startup founders and why it’s worth reading.
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Why read the Q&A from this week?
who rightly believes he's the person who can make Vimbals' vision come to fruition.
But what he displays to investors should always be considered - and what each investor wants is always different (sadly)...
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????The Ask??
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Founder:? Joshua Arnall | linkedin.com/in/joshuaarnall
Company:? Vimbal | https://vimbal.ai
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Profile:
Community VC - vimbal | https://community-vc.com/company/vimbal/
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Tagline:
Become The Best, Most Educated, Version Of Yourself
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Sector:
Humanity Tech | EdTech | MedTech (future)
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Stage:
$10m Seed ($1m pre @ $9.6m post)
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?? Ask:
Feedback
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? Questions:
As an investor,?what is the answer from a founder, to a question you asked,
that made you think?“right, this founder is someone I want to invest in”
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?? Additional Info: - vimbal.ai - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OHhfY0y9p1b0Ukf0KvdU7zw3SkPiXD6b
????The Q&A?
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@Michael Cotton | Investor, Optio capital
Vimbal, his question. I don’t think there ever has been a single answer that has done this. My answer would be there is no single element that can trigger a desire to invest it is always multifaceted. In terms of the project, if I said what are the first things I would be keen to know: The stats quoted on the website sound compelling - I need more evidence that it is as compelling as it sounds and if those results continue over time. Why a mining company as the first partner and strategic investor over others? What does competition look like.?
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@Raaj Ryat | Investor, Airtree?
For venture returns, you need to an absolute world class team with incredible product and technical chops. Truly global experts in their area. You don't see a lot of hardware co's make it without this.?
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@Jock Fairweather | Founder, CVC?
I search for how deep a founder has been in the trenches and how they came out, their mindset, their reflection and how they feel about continuing on the journey for the longhall
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@Anna Tao | Venture Builder, Beanstalk Ag
1. You know the customers and market well to convince me on why now is the RIGHT time to scale up.? 2. why you- you show that you are committed to make this happen for the long run (10 years). and your personal story that show your experience and skills are right for building this company and attract the best people to work for you.
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??? Finally, a welcome to our ecosystem
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Community VC & Iceberg are community and software businesses in the early stage startup investing and advising space.
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is Australia's biggest forum for founders at pre-seed and seed stage asking questions and getting feedback from people who love startups.
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is a CRM specifically built for founders, geared for network building and driven by thoughtful automation to maximise impact.
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TL:DR
Our goal is to create the place where all venture discovery and interest starts and capture all of those insights to create the deepest network knowledge and IP for everyone to benefit.
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We do that by providing a place where founders can ask questions in front of strategically aligned investors and experts, capturing the insights/engagement and then synthesising feedback for the whole ecosystem to thrive.
RE community. It’s pretty straight forward, there’s a set of explanatory WhatsApp groups, a Q&A form, a community guide doc and a whole lot of people collabing on learnings and investor insights to help founder gather acute insights and signal from early investors.
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All digital - all a-sync. (Our community mods are pretty friendly and generally available though!)
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Think of it like an ASX forum for Venture where we capture the insights and feed it back for the whole ecosystem to benefit.
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There’s nothing to lose, except learning and gaining visibility from hundreds of other investors/experts leaning in to support early stage founders.
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Jock & the team
Thanks Jock Fairweather ?? & Community VC - It has been great to have access and direct feedback from Aus and international investors on the CVC platform with the weekly questions in the DeepTech group