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Apr 16, 2021

Was trying to remember

@ycombinator

motto: Make something people want & Make something people need that sound pretty similar. But it seems that ‘want’ could be really influenced by marketing yet ‘need’ is something fundamental.

@paulg

is it on purpose that you focus on ‘want’?

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Ernestine Fu: All You Need to Know About Venture Capital

Jan 23

Hey developers!🧑‍💻👩‍💻 Want to hang at your workspace this piece of engineering made by Steve Wozniak and redesigned by

, what do you think?

Fundraising Terms by Ernestine Fu

@Stanford

in 40 mins video: – valuations – term-sheets – VC industry overview for the context Watch & learn! 💵

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MS&E 476: Entrepreneurship through the Lens of Venture CapitalErnestine Fu is an angel investor in Silicon Valley, partner at venture capital firm Alsop Loui...

Jan 20

Apply to Berkeley SkyDec accelerator: skydeck.berkeley.edu/apply/

Hey founders! Want to accelerate business & raise $200K? 💵 New Batch 16 of

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accelerator

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starts soon! ⚡️ 🗓️Applications deadline – February 17 🕓 Duration – 6 months 📍Location – California 🇺🇸 or Milano 🇮🇹 💵 Terms – $200K for 7.5% Application link 👇

Step-by-step instruction for founders with idea to validate it ✅ – talk to people – create nice landing page – promote it with daily tweets – introduce life-time offer – collect $1K 🤑 Thanks for sharing, Luca! 👇

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How I validated a product idea and collected ~1K in pre-sales.

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The State of U.S. Early-Stage Venture & Startups: 2022

Jan 19

🚀 Pitch Deck creation tools to check out: Apple Keynote

PowerPoint

Google Slides

Canva

Pitch

Figma

What else?

Fresh new data from

on the state of venture. TL;DR: Rounds medians Q4’2022: 💵 pre-seed $10M (+$2M to 2021) 💵 seed $20M (+$5M) 💵 series A $60M (+0) 💵 series B $200M (+0) 🌱 So only first rounds grow 🤑

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Venture performance declined slowly, and then suddenly in 2022.

Hey founders! Did anyone took part in such round tables? Was it useful for you?

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One thing you must improve in your startup’s financial model

One thing you must do to make your startup’s financial model better than 99% of the others, helping you to raise 💸 #startups #funding #Entrepreneur

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From my experience the main problem of the startups financial models is lack of any kind of structure. Typically founders or their…

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Reaching out investors? 💸 The best way is to make cold email warm🔥 How? ➕reference to the intro "Hi John, Paul Graham

@paulg

recommended to write to you..." How to get it?⚡️ Search

@ycombinator

alum Founders directory for founder from your school👇

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A list of founders YC has funded across many verticals including hardware, edtech, biotech, healthcare, developer tools, consumer and enterprise, to name a few.

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Pepsi-Cola Company (@pepsi) almost died until they found clever way to fight Coke's 12-ounce bottles If you want to learn this strategic lesson for your startup, open this thread

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How to make SaaS financial model in 5 minutes? Video for founders

8/8. So think about it – in some situations you can win not by raising the price but lowering it

7/8. He used some fundamental principles: – Pepsi's fixed costs stayed the same so Guth managed to utilize economies of scale – he made a bet that Coke will not lower their price as with big market share they will have much bigger impact to their profits in the moment

6/8. But how did it work? It seems that when you give discounts you loose your profits even more?

5/8. By 1934 Pepsi was out of bankruptcy. It's profit continued to grow to $4.2M by 1938. Unprecedented decision of Guth to undercut Coca-Cola saved the company.

4/8. Then Guth came up to the idea 💡 – Why not sell 12-ounce Pepsis for the same price as 6-ounce Cokes? It was the Depression and it was a brilliant marketing ploy. Pepsi's sales shot upwards 🚀.

3/8. Initially Pepsi priced the 12-ounce bottles at 10 cents, twice the price of 6-ounce Cokes. However, this pricing strategy failed to boost sales.

2/8. At that time Coke and Pepsi sold their drinks in 6-ounce bottles. But to reduce costs Charles Guth, CEO of Pepsi, purchased large supply of recycled 12-ounce beer bottles.

1/8. In 1931 Pepsi had entered bankruptcy for the second time in 12 years. Pepsi attempted to be sold to Coke but Coke refused to buy distressed rival. Company was 'a mere shell of a corporation'.

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) almost died until they found clever way to fight Coke's 12-ounce bottles If you want to learn this strategic lesson for your startup, open this thread 🧵

Always wanted help founders to save time making financial models with help of #AI so made this MVP 👇 Comment if you need more detailed template for your startup to be generated in 5 minutes, I'll DM you template and link to generate it #startups #vc

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That's way too simple:– answer questions for startup founders, not accountants– get Excel file with simple SaaS financial model– evaluate your idea playing w...

Pricing is key question from your investors as it drives your P&L. I've learned pricing concept reading Joel on Software blog by

@spolsky

(thanks, Joel!🙏), but in this article you'd find more infographics that will help you to price your product right #saas #pricing #startups

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@vikeshdhyani

How to price your #SAAS Product. lennysnewsletter.com/p/saas-pricing

That's it! Want to get more Elaborate template of financial model and Seed deck? Drop a comment below. Also, if you liked this: 1. Follow me

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3 key components of the successful fundraising for startups with templates: 1) story 2) financial model 3) deck A thread

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(Google Slides) seed pitch deck template

3) deck Seed deck structure is quite simple. It has 2 key things to consider: – tell the story – focus on market opportunity, team that builds the product and your traction Example by

@DocSend

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2) financial model You should calculate your financials and do it in the very beginning. Model can use pretty rough estimates and assumptions, but it will document you way of thinking of business figures Template by

@sumitville

: sumitkapur.com/wp-content/upl

1) story We all like to put a lot of text, images in numbers to our presentation for the investors, but you should start with the story – hero, his aims, obstacles and challenges and how they are fought Example: how Steve Jobs presents the first iPhone

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This is the iPhone introduction excerpt from the Macworld San Francisco 2007 Keynote Address January 9th, 2007. Steve Jobs made the claim that it was 5 years...

🤑3 key components of the successful fundraising for startups with templates: 1) story 2) financial model 3) deck A thread 🧵 #startups #seedfunding #funding #investors #vc #venturecapital

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Sergey Panarin Retweeted

May 17, 2021

To help new generation of #startups redraw all slides of great

@Square

#deck for $100M💸Series C round made by Square team

. Download editable Keynote version for free: dropbox.com/t/vAFs5j149r6l. For sure this deck has good karma #investments #keynote

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Fast as hell! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Wish all founders deals like this in 2023 💸💸💸

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Wiz

@WizLikeWizard

Jan 13

Just signed and wired for our first investment of the year! 2:18PM: Founder cold DMed me last Friday 2:22PM: I replied 2:34PM: He emailed deck 2:48PM: We got on a Zoom 5:21PM Saturday: Emailed him a commitment Wired today. 2023 is going to be one hell of a year

Jan 13

Founders, if your growth is accelerated by demographic, Monique created a new venture fund for you! $17M are there, so prepare your pitch decks 💸💸💸 #seedfunding #funding #vc #startups

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Monique Woodard

@MoniqueWoodard

Today, I’m officially announcing Cake Ventures (@cakeventures) Fund I, a $17M seed and pre-seed fund to invest in founders building companies and products whose growth is accelerated by demographic change. forbes.com/sites/alexkonr

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Founders, in case you’re on a journey to the deal. Get your docs organized for due diligence 👇

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KO Law Firm

@KOlawyers

Preparing for #duediligence or transaction? Invite #SaaS & #software leaders to join us & @SFTWRcolorado on Tues., Jan. 24 for tips on IP ownership, #dataprivacy & software usage. To join virtually, RSVP: bit.ly/3IrXJud To join in person, RSVP: bit.ly/3GGe7WK

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If you like this tweet, you will love my free tools for founders: – product inspiration board: bit.ly/gettingrealinm – SaaS financial models generator: bit.ly/saas_model – Square $10M investment deck in editable Apple Keynote:

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What worked great this week 👇: – Twitter posts with pictures, – email list to announce webinar at

@eventbrite

, – YouTube shorts. And we grew our LinkedIn page followers number by 50% 🥳 #buildinpublic #startup #traction

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Jan 25, 2022

Amazing people you absolutely need to follow now 1.‘The mom test’ best book on #custdev

@robfitz

2.#Sprint aka 5-days to #MVP method creator

@jakek

3. Twitter 101 for #startups

@Yannick_Veys

4.Founder of

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@paulg

5.Geek guru, decoded #DOOM

Hey founders! Soon

will start new seed financing 💸 application season. Previously Mercury helped Sugar, LÜK Network and Allset. Dear

@FatimaDicko_

@iamzackparker

@cleggskie

, could you pls share how it was? This will be very useful for founders who raise seed now 🙏

In 2012

launched on

and raised over $10m from 68,000 people around the world. That's about $150 from a backer

Sergey Panarin Retweeted

May 15, 2021

My favourite ❤️presentation in

@startupschool

was this one on Launch 🚀by

@KatManalac

– so I wanted to polish it to share with #startups and #entrepreneurs. Share it with your friends who want to launch but don't know how🤷🏼‍♂️Download – dropbox.com/t/C7juUwIS6ex9 #ycombinator #launch

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Jan 10

Like this image to faster reach your $1M ARR ;) #FridayVibes #FridayFeeling #startups #saas #founders

Jan 9

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