What should go into an in-person pitch deck?

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Check out my side project Rejectionathon (discount code: EYFRIENDS), which helps founders get over their fear of rejection. The event is next weekend on July 17, 2016 in the Bay Area. I’ve previously written about the importance of having multiple decks.

The ideal email deck

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Check out my side project Hustleathon, which helps founders get over their fear of rejection. The event is on July 17, 2016 in the Bay Area. Since I wrote a post on how you’ll need multiple pitch decks, I’ve gotten a number of questions around what should go into them.

Best Seed Pitch Ever – AVC

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I read yesterday evening that our portfolio company Twilio, which priced its IPO last night, is going to live code from the NYSE this morning. That brought a powerful flashback to the first time I met Jeff Lawson, founder and CEO of Twilio.

Curitiba is a Great Place to Launch a Startup. See a List of 150+ Local Resources

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Startup ecosystems can be fragmented, competitive, and hidden to newcomers, which is detrimental for local startups and community growth.

Founders Fund Leads a Financing Round for Nubank, a Brazilian Start-Up

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RIO DE JANEIRO — The billionaire and prominent Silicon Valley financier Peter Thiel has returned to investing in Brazil, even as the country remains mired in recession and faces almost weekly political upheavals. Founders Fund, the San Francisco-based venture capital firm Mr.

Fundraising 2016 – Control Your Destiny

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Welcome to 2016. We’ve already heard lots of predictions about the late stage financing market, tech IPOs, and what is going to happen to unicorns this year. And it’s only Monday, January 4th. Remember that these are predictions. No one really has a clue. And a year is a long time.

An Alternative to Board Decks Some Seed VCs Actually Prefer

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Over the summer, based on feedback from our portfolio and the broader startup community, NextView created pre-formatted board deck templates for seed-stage startups — part of our Growth Guides series. Included in that deck was something that caught some folks by surprise.

The Venture Capital Funnel: Your Chances Of Raising Follow-Ons, Exiting, And Becoming A Unicorn

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Once you take venture capital, what can you expect? Below is what the data says life will look like.

How To Build A Billion Dollar Company: The Method Behind Today's 'Unicorn' Madness

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Redpoint Joint Venture in Brazil Adds Romero Rodrigues, a Top Entrepreneur

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RIO DE JANEIRO — Redpoint eventures, a joint effort between Redpoint Ventures and e.ventures of Silicon Valley, has added Romero Rodrigues, one of Brazil’s best-known Internet entrepreneurs, as a full-time general partner. In 1998, as a university student in São Paulo, Brazil, Mr.

The Tech Bust of 2015

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Maybe instead of a tech bubble, we’re in a tech bust.  No one seems to fervently believe tech valuations are cheap, so it’d be somewhat surprising if we were in a bubble.  In many parts of the market, valuations seem too cheap.

Why VCs don’t invest in “good” companies

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Every VC says they are looking for great Founders that are solving real problems in big markets. So why is it that so many “good” companies that seemingly meet these requirements still fail to raise money from VCs? Venture Capital is a hits driven business, with ~4.

First Round 10 Year Project

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Ten years is a long time. When we started First Round in 2005 with the idea to fill the gap between individual angel investing and Series A investing, many on Sand Hill Road dismissed our model as a “cute” novelty. Boy how times have changed.

The Boulder Startup Lawyers of LaszloLaw Discuss Drag-Along Rights and Tag-Along Rights in an Operating or Shareholder Agreement.

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Operating agreements and shareholder agreements typically include provisions that control in the event that an interest in a company is being sold to a third party.

Quantifying the VC life (and my inbox)

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The comment has been sitting with me for some weeks, so I figured I would try to use some proper data to validate his comment on the VC lifestyle and hopefully provide some ideas for entrepreneurs on how to rise above the noise.

PSA: Email Introduction Etiquette – Always Always Always Use the Double Opt-In Intro

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If you are introducing two people without using a double opt-in intro, you have a high likelihood of being a terrible person.  Yup – I said it.

$10 Billion

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Ten years after the seed accelerator model was pioneered, Seed-DB has now identified over $10 billion that has been invested in accelerator graduates.

6WunderKinder’s exit is a Triple Wake Up Call

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Today is an important day for the European technology landscape. As my friend Amir Mizroch reported in the WSJ, 6Wunderkinder GmbH (maker of WunderList) was acquired by Microsoft for a price rumored to be between $100M and $200M.

How Ever-Higher Valuations Lead Unicorns Into A Cycle Of Private Capital Dependency

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Unicorns and dragons have become so ubiquitous that some argue investing in these companies is the only way for VCs to survive. This phenomenon makes for excellent entertainment, and for some either incredibly lucky or prophetic investors, there are billions of dollars to be made.

The Metrics Every Entrepreneur Should Know by Heart

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Most startup investors look for entrepreneurs who know their business inside and out. Historical financials are rarely a good predictor of future startup success, but entrepreneurs’ understanding of their financials and key metrics can be.