It’s impossible to understand what venture firms invest in without understanding how their numbers work.| Pitching Angels
Those projections of 50%+ profit margins in your pitch deck are pure fiction. Running a $100M business has a lot more costs than you're calculating.| Pitching Angels
What do investors care about most? Your vision? Your team? Nope. The only thing that matters is your exit strategy, because the only way investors make money is from your exit.| Pitching Angels
After sending a pitch deck to VCs, it’s frustrating that you get no response at all. Here’s the reason why.| Pitching Angels
A breakdown of the factors to determine how much equity to pay your startup's advisors.| Pitching Angels
The economics of angel investing are the same as for VCs. If your startup doesn’t fit the VC ideal, angels aren’t the answer.| Pitching Angels
7 sources of funding to build your startup that don’t require venture capital's impossible promises of exponential growth and billion dollar exits| Pitching Angels
Please reconsider your plans to fund your business with venture capital. For startups that aren’t moonshots, venture capital is a one-way ticket to failure. Other ways of funding a business have a much higher chance of success.| Pitching Angels
Should you send your pitchdeck to investors as a PDF or a link? This seemingly minor detail can make or break your raise.| Pitching Angels
Plenty of people will offer to help raise funds through the network for a cut of the deal. Unfortunately, SEC regulations make that illegal without a broker's license.| Pitching Angels
If you’re setting up a startup and looking for investors, make sure it’s a C-corp. LLCs are non-starters for investors. Here’s why.| Pitching Angels
Are you being pushed to raise a fresh round by your VC investors? Perhaps that’s for their own benefit rather than yours.| Pitching Angels
What do you need in your investor dataroom? Here’s a handy list.| Pitching Angels