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Fundraising & Investors & VC! Oh My!

Traction. Traction. Traction.

Tech & VC: The Foundation (Notion Page) by Paige Doherty

Tech & VC: The Foundation

HW & Resources

Presentations

Readings

Why Venture Capitalists Don’t Sign NDAs by Sergio Marrero of Rebel One Ventures

Finding the right investors with Troy Henikoff of MATH Venture Partners.

Two Emails Every Early Stage Founder Should Master by Silicon Valley Bank

Pre-seed, Seed, Series A, B, C: How startup fundraising works by Chuck Pettid & Republic

a16z Podcast: How To Raise Money from a Venture Investor by Scott Kupor and Frank Chen at Andreessen Horowitz

The Ultimate Ultimate VC Toolkit by Sergio Marrero of Rebel One Ventures

The Top 10 Podcasts on Venture Capital by Sergio Marrero of Rebel One Ventures

Data Room

Data Room

Due Diligence

Investor Dating - 40+ Questions Investors Ask Founders by Sergio Marrero of Rebel One Ventures

Due Diligence Checklist by Sergio Marrero of RBL1 Ventures

Convertible Debt/SAFE vs. Equity

Video - MATH 101: Convertible Debt/SAFE vs. Equity with Troy Henikoff of MATH Venture Partners

Additional resources

Crowdsourced documents for seed stage (term sheet, agreement)

Venture Deals standard forms of documents

Investor Pitch Deck

Article - The Art Of the Investor Pitch Deck: How To Make a Presentation That Will Get Noticed with Techstars

Article - How To Create An Early-Stage Pitch Deck For Investors via TechCrunch

Investment Memos

Investment Memos of Shopify, Pinterest, Twilio, Twitch, Wix, Yelp, Dropcam, Mindbody, PagerDuty, SendGrid, Fiverr, LinkedIn, LifeLock

The Investment Committee Memorandum by Sergio Marrero of RBL1 Ventures

Term Sheet

How To Read A Startup Term Sheet by Kamir Kothari at Silicon Valley Bank

YouTube Video - Venture Deals Talks Term Sheets and Liquidation Preferences with Jason Mendelson

YouTube Vide - NYU Startup School: Anatomy of a Term Sheet

Video - “The Economics of Term Sheets,” with a16z Managing Partner Scott Kupor’s (Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It)

Article - 8 Questions to Ask During Term Sheet Negotiations

Deterministic Unissued Options Pool Calculations by Andrew Parker

Financial Modeling

Video - MATH 101: Financial Modeling Part 1 - What is a Financial Model? with Troy Henikoff of MATH Venture Partners

Video - MATH 101: Financial Modeling Part 2 - The Power of a Financial Model with Troy Henikoff of MATH Venture Partners

Video - MATH 101: Financial Modeling Part 3 - Modeling Your Expenses with Troy Henikoff of MATH Venture Partners

Video - MATH 101: Financial Modeling Part 4 - How Fundraising and Dilution Impacts YOUR Equity as a Founder with Troy Henikoff of MATH Venture Partners

Founder-Investor Fit

VC Guide - Anonymous fund & investor partner reviews by founders for founders. NPS scores for VC's.

VC Rank - A list of venture firms for your startup's next round. Building your investor target list with NewStackVC

Podcast episode The Term Sheet feat. Brad Feld | The Full Ratchet

Fundraising CRM / Pipeline

Investor Databases & Rosters

VC Investment Process

The RBL1 Ventures VC Investment Process by Sergio Marrero

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