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Updating Your Seed Investors – Board Deck & Update Email Templates

View from Seed

Although many of these investors aim to actively help the company, the dynamics of the syndicate combined with the entrepreneurs’ preference result in a situation where there isn’t a regular assembling for a formal meeting. Along those lines, opening with a TLDR section brings the important items to the forefront.

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How to Create a Marketing Playbook for Consistent Campaigns

ConversionXL

Here’s how the guide is promoted on Twitter: The informative, conversational tone and fun imagery are the same as the post on the Visme website: And the same vibe as the video embedded in the guide: Visme maintains consistency throughout the customer journey. Take Visme’s guide to asymmetrical balance. Measurement.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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How and Why the NextView Everyday Economy Accelerator is Different

View from Seed

of teams’ online pitch decks and recorded videos, as well as loved the dozens of second-round video conversations which we had with Founders working on quite compelling startups. When the culmination of an accelerator is a Demo Day show, then that is what teams prepare for and the resulting metrics by which they’re measured.

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Seed Round Signaling Revisited: Myths, Truths, & Half-Lies

Genuine VC

Yet even today, whether or not to take a (relatively) small check in a seed round syndicate from a multi-hundred million or even billion dollar fund is still a decision which takes quite a bit of consideration and sometimes consternation. So there is an element of (positive) selection bias in the larger VC syndicate cohort companies.

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Marketing Your Portfolio Companies to Other Investors

David Teten

See How VCs structure a syndicate and recruit coinvestors for more on this. – 1 sentence with most exciting metric from their growth. – Ideally revenues and other financial metrics if we can include that. name], I enjoyed our conversation. – Current fundraising status and date last fundraised.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Not long after the product launch we began the initial conversations with VCs for a Series A round. We’ve had a supportive board and encouraging metrics and a helpful climate for our community news notion (now 51 sites in 3 states). He provided our initial seed funding to launch the website publicly on May 5, 2003.