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

Posted on September 21, 2023 by knjohn | Leave a comment

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.

Sexism in tech: Why a startup founder had sex with an investor | Business Insider

Posted on July 20, 2017 by CBPS | Leave a comment

Byron Katie, a great teacher, looks at the world as: “My business. Your business. And God’s business.” All I have control over is my business. No one else’s behavior falls under “my business.” I do control the choices I make and the boundaries I set. That is it. That is all we each have.

Deal Volumes Slow Q3 2012 | Cooley LLP

Posted on December 7, 2012 by CBPS | Leave a comment

Other deal trends continued to point to investor caution and negotiating leverage. The percentage of deals with participating preferred provisions increased from the prior quarter across all deal stages. The data also saw an increase in the utilization of pay-to-play provisions in Q3. In another signal of investor caution, we witnessed the percentage of tranched transactions reaching 20.5% of deals in the quarter, a marked increase from the prior quarter.