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How to Think Like an Investor When Preparing Your Pitch Deck | Entrepreneur

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Key Takeaways:

  • It’s getting tougher to win global investment, and your pitch deck can turn it around.
  • Understanding the investor’s perspective is key to crafting a successful pitch deck, as the future of global fundraising is likely to be even more interconnected and competitive.

Startups are no longer confined to their local markets for fundraising. In the last decade, global venture capital (VC) investment in the startup ecosystem surged from $347 billion in 2010 across 31,623 deals to $671 billion in 2021 across 38,644 deals.

Startups are looking for more than just cold monetary transactions to fuel their growth and global exposure.

Today, successful startup fundraising boils down to one single most important thing: the pitch deck. It’s still the golden ticket for startups to secure both local and global VC funding. However, there are strategic differences between these two.

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Making Sense of Crypto | The Startup Magazine

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One of the hottest topics in the investment world today is cryptocurrency.  It’s also one of the most misunderstood and with the current negative headlines about plunging value, easy to dismiss.  However, like most headlines on the evening news, there is more to understand about this digital currency than a quick two-minute newscast can cover.

What is crypto?

To understand what cryptocurrency is, you need to start with the Blockchain. In its simplest form, the Blockchain is just computer programs that perform specific functions. They are decentralized, meaning they are not owned by a specific entity.  Blockchain is essentially a records-keeper, much like your favorite accounting software. Where it differs, however, is that any additions or changes to its files are recorded permanently on its digital “log” and visible for all to see.  This makes Blockchain both a privacy-favoring transaction recording platform and one that is designed for trust, as any actions are visible and permanently recorded on the Blockchain.

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5 Reasons To Invest In A Rental Property Business | The Startup Magazine

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Investing in the rental property business is a solid investment strategy that is practically guaranteed to make you money in the long run and build immediate cash flow.

So many people wrongly assume that investing in real estate costs a lot of money upfront, which it can – but it doesn’t have to. All you need is a fraction of the cost for a deposit, and you can borrow the rest from a bank. With just a 10% investment, you can own a property and pay off the rest over the years.

You can get finance to buy a property as long as you have a good credit rating and a stable income. Below are the top five reasons for you to invest in a rental property business:

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Reality Television isn’t Reality: My Journey to Startup Success | The Startup Magazine

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While popular TV shows like ‘Shark Tank’ may make it look like it’s easy for startups to secure funding, the reality isn’t always so kind. The harsh truth is that ‘Shark Tank’ scenarios do not exist in the real world: as an entrepreneur, it is highly unlikely that you are going to find yourself in a situation where four millionaires are sitting in front of you, attentive, and ready to enter into a bidding war over investment in your company. Reality is much more complicated and, unfortunately, an entrepreneur’s road to success isn’t as cut and dry as TV might make it seem.

Luckily, there are strategies that help increase your odds of success. I’m here to share those strategies and let you in on how my team and I earned the holy grail of the startup world: a funding win from an angel investment competition.

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Report: Google Closing in on SpaceX Investment | WIRED

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Google may be in the final stages of investing in Elon Musk’s private space exploration company SpaceX, a move that would bolster SpaceX’s emerging satellite business and would help Google expand internet access around the world.

According to The Information, which cited anonymous sources familiar with the talks, the deal would value SpaceX at more than $10 billion, though the exact terms of the investment are still unclear. But at an event in Seattle last week where SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk first announced the new satellite venture, Musk gave some indication as to the epic scope of the project that lies ahead. He seeks to create a network of hundreds of satellites that could not only connect people on Earth to the web, but also people on Mars—if and when people get there. The total cost of such an audacious project? $10 billion.

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Personalized Shopping Startup The Hunt Adds Tyra Banks As Investor | TechCrunch

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The Hunt, a website designed to help shoppers find specific items to buy online, has added Tyra Banks to its list of high-profile backers.

This is not the first time Banks has expressed interest in the tech startup community. The former model added an investment sector to the Tyra Banks Company, Fierce Capital LLC, and told Betabeat she would have liked to have invested in startups such as Uber and Airbnb when they first launched.

The amount of Banks’ investment was not disclosed, but The Hunt CEO Tim Weingarten tells TechCrunch the money will go to improving functionality and user engagement. While Weingarten also declined to give specifics of the direction The Hunt is heading, he says users can expect to see new developments within the next few months. Prior to its most recent investment, The Hunt raised $2 million from Javelin Venture Partners and another $700,000 from Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary (Madonna’s manager) and Rohan Oza.

Weingarten’s website functions through “hunts” that users post to find items they want to purchase. Weingarten tells me 75 percent of the time that a user is satisfied with an answer and declares the hunt “found.” However, this majority is solved by the minority of users — 15 percent of registered users aid in others’ hunts. With over 300,000 registered users and  250,000 products added to submitted hunts, a simple and generalized calculation comes out to an average of 55 hunts from each person in that percentage. That’s not necessarily representative of what actually happens, but it’s still a lot of hunts to be solved.

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Mini Flash Crash? ES Plunges By 2 Standard Deviations In 5 Minutes | ZeroHedge

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…the final desperate straw broke the camel’s back into the close as ES dropped 1% in less than 5 minutes as volume dwarfed the rest of the day with machines fighting each other to exit at a reasonable price.

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E-Mini S&P, often abbreviated to “E-mini” (despite the existence of many other E-mini contracts) and designated by the commodity ticker symbol ES, is a stock market index futures contract traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange‘s Globex electronic trading platform.  This is the same system that is believed to have triggered the May 6th, 2010 ‘flash crash’.  – Definition courtesy Wikipedia, Ed.