VC Minute

About VC Minute

Quick advice to help startup founders fundraise better. Founders, do you feel like you're fundraising on an uneven playing field? You are. The VC minute is here to help you level up. Venture capitalists navigate pitches and negotiate investments every day. They know the ins and outs and are up-to-date on the current funding environment. But as a founder, it may be your first foray into fundraising, and no matter how much success you've had in other areas nothing truly prepares you for the fundraising journey. The VC Minute was created to help founders close this gap. While it may seem like securing an investment at the seed stage is mostly driven by luck, there are steps founders can take to increase the odds of successfully raising a round. And that's what we're going to cover on the VC Minute through a series of short episodes. I'm going to share with you insights to help navigate the seed stage financing dynamics. I'm Rich Maloy, Managing Partner at SpringTime Ventures with 25 years business experience a dozen years in the startup ecosystem. I've applied my experience from sales, finance, and venture investing, to help startup founders fundraise better.

Publisher

Rich Maloy

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 May 2022

Latest episode

25 Oct 2024

Latest episodes

104 of 282 episodes have a transcript.

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   25 Oct 2024TRANSCRIPT

   270. A Smaller Deck With Less Information

   Text your thoughts directly to Rich. Don't answer every question in your deck. Give just enough information to pique curiosity. About AVL Growth PartnersAVL Growth Partners, founded in 2009, is the leading fractional Finance and Accounting firm supporting organizations in pivoting from growth to scale. AVL brings an experienced team of CFOs, Controllers, and Accountants to your organization, delivering transparent, strategic actions for short and long-term success. Transform your financial ap...

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   24 Oct 2024TRANSCRIPT

   269. Inside the Mind of an Investor When There's Too Much Text on the Slide

   Text your thoughts directly to Rich. Let's peer into the spooky world inside a VC's brain when you're pitching with a wall-of-text slide.About AVL Growth PartnersAVL Growth Partners, founded in 2009, is the leading fractional Finance and Accounting firm supporting organizations in pivoting from growth to scale. AVL brings an experienced team of CFOs, Controllers, and Accountants to your organization, delivering transparent, strategic actions for short and long-term success. Transform your fin...

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   23 Oct 2024TRANSCRIPT

   268. Maximum Information in Minimum Words feat. Justin Izzo from Dropbox DocSend

   Text your thoughts directly to Rich. Understanding that you have a very limited amount of time and space to compete for a limited amount of investor attention.About Justin IzzoJustin is the Lead Data and Trends Analyst at Dropbox Docsend and trusted insights professional with 15+ years of research and leadership experience. He is the driving force behind DocSend's pitch deck metrics and annual slide-by-slide analysis reports, also hosting pitch deck teardowns to provide founders with actionab...

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270. A Smaller Deck With Less Information

Published 25 Oct 2024 · Transcript excerpt

[…] The point is to get a meeting. You don't have to answer every question in your Pitch Deck. In fact, you don't want to answer every question. What you need to do is tell your story, peek the investor's curiosity, and make it impossible for them to not reach out to learn more. That is the point of the Pitch Deck. What I think happens to a lot of founders is they go out and they share their Pitch Deck and they get feedback. Oh, you didn't include this. Well, what about this? What about this piece? And what about that piece? And I didn't understand this, and you should definitely have that slide in your deck. […]

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