Are you looking to raise angel investment? This site will lead you through the process, focusing on how to achieve a successful raise. We cover everything from how to conceive of your company through to how to prepare for future investment rounds once your deal is closed.
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If everything goes well, what does your business look like at scale? Your investment pitch is part of a bigger story, which you need to get really good at telling.
This episode covers market sizing and Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy for seed-stage startups, which is frequently the weakest link in an investment pitch.
The equation that investors are looking for is: $1 of investment in, significant multiple of revenue out.
This episode explains why metrics matter when raising investment and which ones founders should track. Its central message is that founders should keep a minimal, focused set of measurements appropriate to their company’s stage rather than tracking everything. It surveys the key SaaS metrics investors care about and warns that any numbers put into a pitch become targets for which a founder will be held accountable.
[Your North Star metric should be] the number that predicts revenue, the moment of value delivery.
Building a startup used to involve Steve Jobs level intuition and magic. Customer Development and Lean Startup heroes Steve Blank and Eric Ries turned building startups into a scalable repeatable process, through talking to customers and applying the scientific method. Your startup is a science experiment. Learn how to reach product-market fit before your resources run out.
There are no facts inside the building, so get the hell outside. – Steve Blank
Who is your customer? What market are you operating in, and how do you define it? What are the key elements of your business model?
These are critical questions as you build your startup and work toward seeking investment. This episode explores how to answer these questions.
Your ticket to success is finding a customer problem, and solving that problem so well that customers fall in love with and can’t live without your product.
Do you have what it takes to be a startup founder? This episode is a candid reality check. Before you go any further towards founding a startup or raising investment, you need to honestly ask yourself: are you ready for this?
The average SaaS company takes about 9 years from founding to exit.
Dave Moskovitz is one of New Zealand’s most experienced angel investors, and the author and presenter of this series. In this episode, we look at how Dave became a startup founder, and later an investor, as well as how he builds and manages his portfolio.
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