Targeting and reaching out to investors can be a hard job, especially for new startup founders.

"As part of your outreach, you should have a target investor list. This could be on a task management app like Trello or Asana (we used Pipedrive), or you can create a Google Sheet with 100 minimum target investors made up of VCs (leads), micro VCs (smaller check sizes), angel investors, friends/family, and other wealthy individuals that you can get introductions to. Add columns for their name, firm, investment size, sector focus, portfolio companies similar to yours, and who’s going to introduce you. We had a list of 300+ investors on our target list with a 7% close rate. Can you guess our biggest mistake when fundraising for both our seed and Series A? Yup, not building a big enough initial target list. Inevitably you won’t get enough warm introductions, or hear back from everyone, and by the time you get to a meeting, you still hear a lot of big N-Os. It’s like a sales funnel. More investors on your target list mean more meetings and more closed deals. That’s good for you.

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Running a fundraising process effectively can be about breaking down to the most minutia of details. Think meeting strategy, for example. How will you run your meetings? 30 minutes with a hard stop, because you are busy and have to meet other investors? Will you end meetings early if the investor is not interested? What’s the longest you will let a meeting go? How will you get the investor excited and keep the excitement through the moment you leave the room? These are all questions you need to think through in order to prepare for all situations you may encounter............."

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Advise from a Venture Partner at 500 Startups - Read more

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If you are looking to fund raise, here are the high-level questions you need to go through when preparing to fund raise.

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Are you ready to fund raise?

Is your pitch perfected?

What’s your investor strategy?  

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We can help with all these questions, as well as conduct expedited, amplified outreach on behalf of your startup if we believe you are a high potential company.

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