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Investment Terms
Liquidation Preferences
Don’t know what the four main liquidation preferences are? Here’s a good place to start. This is a detailed guide to liquidation preferences and what you should know about each.
Raising Capital
Financial jargon you should definitely know before raising capital for your startup. The goals of entrepreneurs and VCs are different, but this terminology may help you find a good balance to successfully begin raising capital.
Startup and VC
This is an A-V dictionary of important terms in Startups and VC. A good quick read to learn useful terminology.
Valuation
The Art of Valuing a Startup
Knowing you company’s value is important to attract investors, but can also be difficult to do if it is a pre-revenue company. This is a “How To” tip list to learn how to value your company.
How to Value your Startup
“In short, your startup is worth what someone is willing to pay for it.” This article will help you learn the importance of value and how to go about determining your startup value. There are many ways to determine the value of your company and keep investors interested.
Valuing a Startup
Three tips for how to think of your startup valuation. These tips help to make quick sense of startup valuation and help you learn how to do so set the correct valuation.
Cap Tables
What is a Cap Table?
Learn what a cap table is and why it’s important to know how to utilize a cap table. While there is a general guide to how a cap table should be, each is unique to a company’s corporate documents. This article also has links to simple sample tables to help get you started.
Fundraising
Tips for First Round Funding
Raising money for your startup is often a difficult challenge, but the most important challenge to beat. These tips are good whether it’s your first round of funding, or your third!
Capitalization Tables
Capitalization tables are incredibly beneficial for startups and early-stage business. It can be an essential tool to making financial decisions regarding the future of the company. Learn the importance of maintaining and understanding a cap table.
Best Advice for Raising Money
Tips on raising money straight from VCs. What is an investor really looking for from your pitch? Learn what investors will pick at and how you can be prepared to tackle the questions that investors may present to you so that you can securing funding.
Pitch Decks
Pitch Decks All in One Place
A pitch deck is an important communication tool to get investors interested in your company. This list has multiple examples of pitch decks to get ideas for how you can present your best pitch to a potential investor.
Learn from Legendary Pitch Decks
Regardless of how much money you are trying to fundraise, a pitch deck is an essential tool. While this may seems= like a simple presentation, this gives investors an insight into what they will (hopefully) be investing in. This list gives 30 of the best pitch decks to help you learn how to make your presentation a success.
How to Create a Great Pitch Deck
This article lists advice for how to create a great pitch deck, the important do’s and don’t’s. The slide-to-slide breakdown provides great insight for how to be successful where others struggled.