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💎 Pitch Deck

👏 Process & Strategy

📑 Legal & Term Sheet

📒 Financial Model

💡 Inspiration

💎 Pitch Deck

Pitch Deck Examples From the Most Successful Startups

Tool to Build Your Captable and Simulate Funding Rounds

💎 Pitch Deck

Pitch Deck Template

100+ investor Ready Slide Presentation

💎 Pitch Deck

Track Who Viewed Your Documents During Your Fundraise

📒 Financial Model

Financial Model Template

Easy to Use Financial Model Template

👏 Process & Strategy

Notion Fundraising Template

Everything You Need to Successfully Raise Funds for Your Startup

📒 Financial Model

Startup Financial Models Compared

Detailed Analysis of Financial Model Templates

Stephane Nasser

💎 Pitch Deck

How to build a pitch deck in 2021

A video that explains how to build every slide

Maximilian Fleitmann

💎 Pitch Deck

Guide to investor pitch decks

How to build a great pitch deck

Richard Harroch

👏 Process & Strategy

Y Combinator Seed Guide

A Guide That Explains The Principles for Your Seed Fundraise

👏 Process & Strategy

Y Combinator Series A Guide

A Guide That Explains the Principles for Your Series A Fundraise

📑 Legal & Term Sheet

Term Sheet Example

Term Sheet Example with Annotations

Questions to Ask Your investor

30+ Questions You Should Ask Your Investor

💎 Pitch Deck

Investor Pitch Training

200+ Questions Venture Capital Investors and Business Angels Ask Founders

👏 Process & Strategy

Fundraising Fundamentals

Key Concepts of Fundraising Explained

Geoff Ralston (YC)

6 Types of Investors

Learn What Types of Investors Exist

👏 Process & Strategy

A Playbook For Fundraising

A Guide For Founders Who are Looking For Venture Capital

Lenny Rachitsky

📑 Legal & Term Sheet

Revisiting The Term Sheet

All Terms from Term Sheets Explained in Detail

Red Flag & Magic Numbers

All the Metrics That Matter to Investors

👏 Process & Strategy

Fundraising Playbook

Secret Playbook Behind Emergence’s Perfect Record

Investor Reputation

Share your investor experiences, anonymously

💎 Pitch Deck

What is a pitch deck?

Find Investors for Your Startup

Investor and Company Database

📑 Legal & Term Sheet

SAFE Financing Documents

SAFE Document Templates

💡 Inspiration

Learnings from 1000+ Pitches

Insights for Your Next Startup Pitch

Founder & Startup Profile

What Investors Look for in Startups & Founders

What I Wish I Knew Before

The Founder of LinkedIn Talks About the Process of Raising an Investment

Venture Metrics

Metrics for Your Startup Fundraising

Matthieu Lavergne

Database of 37k+ Investors

TAM / SAM / SOM

Learn What is Meant with TAM / SAM / SOM

The Business Plan Shop

👏 Process & Strategy

How to Raise Money

Part of Video Lecture Start a Startup

Marc Andreesen (a16z)

Metrics by Tim Ferris

Vanitry Metrics vs. Actionable Metrics

Thoughts on Unit Economics

How to Get Meetings with Investors

How to Effectively and Strategically Meet with Investors

Aaron Harris (YC)

How to Assess a Startup

Ways to Assess a Startup

Stephane Nasser

💎 Pitch Deck

Top 10 Pitch Deck Books

Books That Help You Build a Better Pitch Deck

💡 Inspiration

Slidebean Videos

Videos on Different Topics

Startup Valuation

An Amazing Article About How to Valuate a Startup

Stephane Nasser

How Much to Raise at What Valuation

📒 Financial Model

SaaS Financial Model

Free & Basic SaaS Model

How To Value Your Startup

Valuation Tipps For Your Business

Slack Communities for a Startup CEO

A List of Communities for Founders

💡 Inspiration

Tips on How to Sell Your Startup Idea

Everything Around CLTV

Forward Partners

💡 Inspiration

Dealmaker Podcast

Podcast About Startup Fundraising

Alejandro Cremades

💡 Inspiration

Discussions About Technology, Innovation, and Change

📑 Legal & Term Sheet

Venture Capital Deals Explained in Detail

Lessons From 100 Failed Startups

Why Startups Fail

Anastasia Mudrova

Describe Your Startup Idea

A Guide How to Describe Your Startup Idea

How to Make a Captable

Tutorial on Captable Building

VC Cold Email Template

Template to Cold Outreach to Investors

Founderlibrary.com

👏 Process & Strategy

Raising Venture Capital

Learn How to Raise Money

How VCs Calculate Valuations

Blogpost About How VCs Calculate Valuation

Understanding Startup Equity

👏 Process & Strategy

When And How to Raise VC Money

Presentation on How and When to Raise Venture Capital

👏 Process & Strategy

What All Founders Should Do Before Fundraising

Guide to Pre-Fundraising VC Research

👏 Process & Strategy

How to Close a Pre-Seed Round in a Virtual World

How Does Online Fundraising Work?

January Ventures

👏 Process & Strategy

Using Your Current Investors

How to Use Your Investors to Find New Ones

The Bull Case For Cold Calling VCs

Great Read About How You Can Cold-Call VCs

Liron Azrielant

👏 Process & Strategy

What’s The FIRST Thing You Need to Do Before Fundraising?

How to Plan Your Fundraising Right

Talking to Investors

Fundamentals About How to Start a Startup

💡 Inspiration

The 7 Pitching Habits for Highly Effective Founders

Article About How to Find The Right Investor in No Time

What Should You Send a VC Before a Meeting

Intel You Should Hand Over to Your Investor Before a Meeting

💡 Inspiration

What Makes a Good Pitch

Good Read on How to Structure Your Pitch Deck

📑 Legal & Term Sheet

How to Read a Term Sheet

Learn How to Read a Term Sheet

Hyde Park Angels

📑 Legal & Term Sheet

The Economics of a Term Sheet

(Video) Detailed Explanation of Term Sheets

Andreesen Horowitz

How to Talk About a Valuation When a VC Asks

Guide on How to Talk About Your Evaluation With Investors

💡 Inspiration

What The Seed Funding Boom Means for Raising a Series A

Article of Seed Funding

The Option Pool Shuffle

The Option Pool Explained

👏 Process & Strategy

Fundraising Advice to Avoid

Fundraising Myths You Should Avoid

Martin Casado (a16z)

🐦 Tweetstorm

Improve Your Odds of Getting to Yes With a VC

Understand Wow VC Partnerships Make Decisions

Key B2B Metrics to Communicate to an Investor

B2B Metrics You Need to Communicate to an Investor

Black Box of Venture Capital Explained

Presentation About How VCs Work

Floodgate Capital

💡 Inspiration

Secrets of Sand Hill Road

How to Raise Venture Capital

Scott Kupor (a16z)

👏 Process & Strategy

Fundraising Workshop

Workshops That Teaches Founders How to Effectively Raise an Institutional Venture Capital Round

Silicon Valley Bank

Data on Global Venture Capital, Private Equity and Public Markets

👏 Process & Strategy

How to Fundraise Like a Boss

Blog Post About Fundraising Like a BOSS!

Founder Library

Resources to Launch, Scale, and Lead with More Confidence and Effectiveness

Founder Library

Venture Education Center

How to Be an Angel Investor

📑 Legal & Term Sheet

Legals for Growing Your Company

👏 Process & Strategy

How to Raise Money

Guide to Raising Money by Paul Graham

YC Demo Day for The Rest of Us

👏 Process & Strategy

Raising Seed Capital?

How to Guide to Raising Capital

👏 Process & Strategy

A Ridiculously Detailed Fundraising Guide

A Step-By-Step System to Help Secure Venture Capital

Founder Collective

A Visual Introduction to VC Financing

Visual Introduction to VC Financing

SAFE & Convertible Note Calculator

Tool to Calculate Your Convertible Notes

💡 Inspiration

Why Do Startups Get Funded

Case Study of 200 Startups That Raised Money

All VC Firms by Thesis - Radically Free and Open

Stephane Nasser

Good VCs, Bad Vcs

Thoughts on Internet Startups, SaaS and Early-Stage Investments

💎 Pitch Deck

Pitch Deck Storytelling Template

How to Tell a Story with Your Pitch

👏 Process & Strategy

Investor Email Update Template

Useful Template for Updating Your Investors

👏 Process & Strategy

Investor Updates

Why Investor Updates are Really, Really Important

Jason Calacanis

The Searchable Venture Capital Database

📑 Legal & Term Sheet

Negotiating Term Sheets

Explanation What is Important in a Termsheet

👏 Process & Strategy

Tool that Structures Your Fundraising Process

📑 Legal & Term Sheet

Understanding Term Sheets

Detailed Explanation of Term Sheets

👏 Process & Strategy

If You're Thinking about Raising Money for Your Startup Read This

Collection of Investors Fundraising Interviews

💡 Inspiration

The Struggle to Raise Money

The Struggle of Raising Money

👏 Process & Strategy

The Anatomy of a Seed Round

An Inside Look into a 1M$ Seed Round

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