Tag: Startup
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Markets are hot. And your startup is growing fast. Time to raise money at the highest price you can get…right? Wrong. Lately, I’ve seen companies raising seed rounds at valuations of $125 and even $150 million. A few years ago, a typical seed round valuation was more like $5 to…
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Venture capital funding is growing at an incredible rate. The money pouring into early stage startups, my playground, has increased by billions of dollars per quarter just since 2020. I see the perverse results of this cash flood every day. Here are a few, from just this week alone: 1)…
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Last week, I was talking with a young founder who is just starting to pitch investors. She wished she could find a good example of a 3 minute pitch. So I figured if she was having this problem, others probably were too! This morning, I made a little video of…
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Elad Gil is a Silicon Valley legend. After selling his startup to Twitter, he helped the company scale from 90 to 1500 people in under 3 years. He’s also had enormous success as an angel investor, investing in startups like Airbnb, Coinbase, Square and Stripe. So I was very excited…
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You’ve been meeting with investors day after day. You get a lot of “very interestings” but no actual checks. What are these people looking for? Today, I thought I’d explain what I look for in a startup. As an angel investor, I invest in about 1-2% of the companies I…
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You’ve worked really hard on your pitch to investors. But what if some of the things you’re saying are actually turning them off? Here are several things that can be a negative signal to investors: 1) No clear growth trend. If you don’t share information about month over month revenue…
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You’ve run through your deck a hundred times. You’ve practiced pitching to your cat. He declined to invest. Startup founders work incredibly hard to pitch their dream to investors and get funded. As an angel investor, I see a lot of presentations. So, I thought I’d share the 3 biggest…
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If you’re a startup founder raising money, you’re going to be sending cold e-mails. Lots of them. So what pitch gets angel investors and VC’s excited, and what turns them off? Here’s the e-mail I’d like to get: From: travis@ubercab.comTo: jim@filthyrich.vc Subject: UberCab intro – everyone’s private driver Hi Jim,…
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Lately, I keep seeing startups running into the same problems. As an angel investor, I work hand in hand with numerous startups. I also see presentations and deal memos from hundreds more. Let’s dig into some of the biggest challenges they have in common: Recruiting The labor market is red…
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Tremendous 