Venture Hacks

“I know plenty of VCs that behave the way I do and plenty that don’t.”
— Brad Feld, on keeping decks to himself
Summary: A deck can help you get a meeting but it can also get in the hands of the competition. Whether you send a deck depends on who wants the meeting most. If you [...]

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Rich Skrenta, a founder of Topix and the Open Directory Project, recently wrote about Spice Girls VC:
“So one day a few years ago I’m sitting in a VC’s office having a chat. I had a few ideas rattling around in my head but the VC had his eyes on a then-current space which was [...]

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Summary: Don’t send long business plans to investors. Don’t ask for NDAs. Don’t share information that must remain confidential. Understand that investors care about traction over everything else.
In Parts 1 and 2 of ‘What should I send investors?’, we covered the elevator pitch and deck. In this article, we present a few dos and don’ts [...]

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