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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. I raced home to put my kids to bed, say hello to my wife and then spend a grueling administrative hour doing email. What do I do now?

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How Much Information Should you Give VCs for Due Diligence?

Both Sides of the Table

You’re heading into a full partner meeting and you’ve been asked for a full data pack before – should you give it? If you show a list of key customers or key business partners and if this list is sensitive (READ: If you don’t want VCs calling them) then you need to make it explicit with the VCs. What did he do?

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Getting Your Head in the Game for Fund Raising

Both Sides of the Table

Also, make sure you know several partners at the VC firms who have invested in you because in tough times it helps to have very broad support. You need to know how many partners they have and which partners do which kinds of deals. Or ask anybody who has had a VC pull a term sheet for whatever reason.

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

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His term sheet series helped me at a time when I needed help. I had come across a guy from the US named Michael Rhattigan who had transfered from the Chicago office to a place called Sophia Antipolis in the south of France (mid way between Nice & Cannes). “Mark, I’m an Associate Partner.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

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Consumers responded to name and concept well, solves real problem, o Took 4 months to build initial prototype. Called Tim Spicer (c-companies partner) and he told him matt, they only want one thing, more warrant coverage!!! . - Getting started: o Matt founded LowerMyBills.com in Dec 99, exited to Experian in Jan 05 for $400M.

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How Many Investors Should You Talk to in a VC Fund Raise? And How Do You Prioritize?

Both Sides of the Table

If an investor isn’t engaging then they’re not suddenly going to get a term sheet. The surest sign a fund-raising process has stalled is when you aren’t getting follow-up meetings or hearing from the VC or hearing from friends that they got a phone call or email asking about you. It doesn’t have to be a partner?—?every

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VC Cold Email Outreach: “The Only Winning Move is Not to Play”

K9 Ventures

Every few weeks one of the founders of K9 Ventures’ portfolio companies forward over an email they’ve received from a “Partner” at a VC firm. And every time I go through the same ritual, explaining to the founder when to respond, when not to respond, and how to respond to such emails. Partner. <Firm

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