If you’ve never sought money for a startup, you may not be aware of how difficult it is. I know it first-hand, and thousands of entrepreneurs that I’ve advised throughout our 1Mby1M Accelerator would tell you the same.
That’s why we are committed to educating each founder about how investors think. We do not want anyone to waste their time or the time of others. We are firm believers in minimizing waste at all levels.
>>>Sandeep Sardana is Founder and General Partner at BluePointe Ventures. We had a terrific discussion on how we each look for a startup story through financial metrics.
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Raising money is a huge challenge. To be able to raise any money at all, you must first understand how investors think.
This specific course covers how post-seed and pre-Series A investors analyze startups and what they are looking for. We will have in-depth conversations around startups and funding with several real-world investors.
>>>One frustrating observation remains with me. Entrepreneurs constantly come to us for assistance with their funding in situations where their chances of fundraising are ZERO.
We can’t do anything to assist them, regardless of how strong our investor connections are. We can’t help startups get funding until they are fundable. It pains me to see so many entrepreneurs who have no concept of what it takes to raise funds.
>>>Unicorn is a startup with an estimated valuation of over $1 billion. More than 1000 unicorns exist today.
Snowflake, Atlassian, ServiceNow are examples of startup unicorns. They’re massive, multi-billion dollar publicly traded companies now. Yet, they all started as an idea, took one step after another, grew in size, and so on.
>>>During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Jukka Alanen, SVP of Strategy and Corporate Development at PagerDuty, to discuss Exit Strategy.
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For the entrepreneur pitch, we had Yugandhar Dodda from Hyderabad, India, pitch V-REAP, a rural skill development social venture.
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Then David Orok from Uyo, Nigeria, pitched eelspace, a freelancer marketplace for Nigeria.
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Lloyed Lobo, Co-founder and President of Boast.ai, discusses his failures and eventual success building AI startups. Wonderful conversation.
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