building the right relationship with your investor
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by Max Gurvits
Building the Right Relationship With Your
Investor
@MxGur
Why Do You Want to Pitch?
Investors are needed for FAST growth
Rule no. 1: Capital is PASSIVE
Rule no. 2: Unlike professional $$, VC $$ is not a product but TOOL
Main steps
5
Step 1: Map your fundraising social graph and talk to ALL in your vertical
Step 2: Build relationships
Step 3: Practice Perfect Pitch
First pitch
Second pitch
Step 4: Have your docs ready
Step 5: CLOSE
How to structure the best pitch deck?
Big Idea and One-Sentence Summary
Who is the Customer What is the Problem
Your Solution
Explaining The Business
Traction and Validation
Metrics!
How it works
The Team
The Future
The Ask
Four things to remember about investors
No. 1: Investors invest in execution
No. 2: Interested in Team, Market, Traction
No. 3: Investors are middlemen
No. 4: In VC it’s all about
So, what you should do before pitching…
Study the investor
Talk to all of his investments
If you can, talk also to their investor
Ask for advice
Use readable slides!
NEVER Forget To Follow Up
How about ideas?
