Searching...
17 results for “founder to investor”
So I would say, like, when numbers do your talking for you, that pitch is so much easier. But I do think that pitching is very much an art form that Silicon Valley, like, has embraced. Like, it's very much in this Don Val Don Valentine archetype. Yea
34:20 / 35:30
from transcript34:20 – 35:30
...As a founder, you you have to pitch. You have to be fucking good at pitching because you have to sell customers, you have to sell investors, and you have to sell employees. And actually, if you can't crisply articulate it to all three, you're in trou
33:35 / 35:08
from transcript33:35 – 35:08
...founders pitch to VC has shifted a little bit because the investment landscape has shifted, and naturally, there are there's higher competition for some of these top deals. Right? Investors are making fewer bets and bigger checks in the same handful
27:31 / 28:51
from transcript27:31 – 28:51
...founder. We knew the people who used to work with the founder. It was an intake call, then they talked to a few of the other partners, then we had them talk to other people who are industry experts. One of the industry experts ended up wanting to inv
15:08 / 17:05
from transcript15:08 – 17:05
where you go first, you know, after friends and family, you go to an incubator or an accelerator, then you go to angels, then you go to early stage VCs, then you go to later stage VCs. And much of the groundwork is established by the incubators and t
7:28 / 8:34
from transcript7:28 – 8:34
Maddie was going through her, like, other inbox on LinkedIn and it was an alum of her university who's a professional athlete. He's like, you guys are you know, I love you following you guys on LinkedIn. I'm like, can I be in your fun? I'm like, wait
20:49 / 22:01
from transcript20:49 – 22:01
...may pitch 50 investors as a founder to get five. Right. So you get maybe 45 nose, but conversely,
14:24 / 15:27
from transcript14:24 – 15:27
...the founder to help. Ask them about their decision making process for reserves and pro rata. This creates more of a conversation,
7:28 / 8:50
from transcript7:28 – 8:50
source deals, whatever it is, help all the components of what makes a great venture manager. So I I love having that debate because there is no right answer, and then you can start going into different definitions of each of these, labels. Yeah. But,
47:53 / 49:15
from transcript47:53 – 49:15
...will fail as an investor if you're still picking founders the old school way. In this conversation, we reveal the real traits top VCs look for and how missing them could cost you billions. So if you wanna outsmart the market and dominate the next dec
0:00 / 1:08
from transcript0:00 – 1:08
...your cofounder that that makes the idea so exciting and unique. So how does that work? I mean, are you is it like a talent agent that sees the next supermodel at a at a Target? Or are you taking applications? How does this work? We do a bit of both.
4:38 / 5:40
from transcript4:38 – 5:40
...any other investor at the point where we're investing in the companies. You know, our biggest competitors are the status quo. It's going into academia. It's staying in a role. It's taking a different job. And I wanna keep it that way because that's a
15:09 / 16:12
from transcript15:09 – 16:12
...founders, and every single case, they sounded so rehearsed. It just struck me the wrong way saying, I don't wanna hear your speech. I don't get a sense of who you are as a person. Do you see that a lot? And does that impact you as an investor when yo
59:57 / 1:01:10
from transcript59:57 – 1:01:10
...you do these investor pitches. If you only have one deck with one pitch, you're doing it wrong. You gotta try different avenues of attack. You've gotta try different language. You've gotta try different pitches to determine which of these work. And,
41:59 / 43:15
from transcript41:59 – 43:15
...is before we invest is we say, this is what we think you need to achieve before we want to invest again. You need to prove that somebody other than you can make a sale. You need to prove that the data you're gathering will actually lead to insights t
20:24 / 22:20
from transcript20:24 – 22:20
...investor pitches. If you only have one deck with one pitch, you're doing it wrong. You gotta try different avenues of attack. You've gotta try different language. You've gotta try different pitches
41:05 / 42:33
from transcript41:05 – 42:33
...of investors. Put these investors in three buckets in a Google Sheet or other database repository, and then do three tiers, priority, tier two, and tier three. Priority should only have five and then 15 each for tier two and tier three. So how do we
3:39 / 4:55
from transcript3:39 – 4:55
Have a podcast?
Run your podcast through Clypt
Get ranked clips, hooks, and ready-to-post copy from your own episodes. Free to try.