VC Minute
Quick advice to help startup founders fundraise better. Founders, do you feel like you're fundraising on an uneven playing field? You are. The VC minute is here to help you level up. Venture capitalists navigate pitches and negotiate investments every day. They know the ins and outs and are up-to-date on the current funding environment. But as a founder, it may be your first foray into fundraising, and no matter how much success you've had in other areas nothing truly prepares you for the fundraising journey. The VC Minute was created to help founders close this gap. While it may seem like securing an investment at the seed stage is mostly driven by luck, there are steps founders can take to increase the odds of successfully raising a round. And that's what we're going to cover on the VC Minute through a series of short episodes. I'm going to share with you insights to help navigate the seed stage financing dynamics. I'm Rich Maloy, Managing Partner at SpringTime Ventures with 25 years business experience a dozen years in the startup ecosystem. I've applied my experience from sales, finance, and venture investing, to help startup founders fundraise better.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 2 minutes
- Episodes
- 275
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2024
270. A Smaller Deck With Less Information
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Don't answer every question in your deck. Give just enough information to pique curiosity.
About AVL Growth Partners
AVL Growth Partners, founded in 2009, is the l…
269. Inside the Mind of an Investor When There's Too Much Text on the Slide
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Let's peer into the spooky world inside a VC's brain when you're pitching with a wall-of-text slide.
About AVL Growth Partners
AVL Growth Partners, founded in 2009,…
268. Maximum Information in Minimum Words feat. Justin Izzo from Dropbox DocSend
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Understanding that you have a very limited amount of time and space to compete for a limited amount of investor attention.
About Justin Izzo
Justin is the Lead Data…
267. Too Much or Too Little on the Team Slide feat. Justin Izzo from Dropbox DocSend
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The Team slide is your chance to answer the question, "why you?" A handful of logos is no more helpful than two paragraphs of text.
About Justin Izzo
Justin is the …
266. From Three Sentences to the Structure of a Solid Pitch, feat. Justin Izzo from Dropbox DocSend
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If your pitch deck should form an argument, the best way to formulate that argument is by writing it out in three sentences.
About Justin Izzo
Justin is the Lead D…
265. Pitch Deck Should Form an Argument feat. Justin Izzo from Dropbox DocSend
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Structure your pitch deck in a way that it forms an argument and each slide supports that argument all the way through.
About Justin Izzo
Justin is the Lead Data a…
264. Market Sizing feat. Justin Izzo from Dropbox DocSend
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Market sizing should articulate how you see the market, showing that you understand your target market and can focus on it.
About Justin Izzo
Justin is the Lead Da…
263. Your Deck is Too in the Weeds, feat. Justin Izzo from Dropbox DocSend
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You don't have critical distance from your business to be able to get out of the weeds. Get feedback on your deck from someone with that critical distance.
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262. Justin Izzo on the Art and Science of Pitch Decks
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The author of Dropbox DocSend's pitch deck analyses shares his insights into building a "snappy" pitch deck.
About Justin Izzo
Justin is the Lead Data and Trends An…
261. Build the Future, feat. Sunny Han, Founder & CEO of Fulcrum
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"There's very few companies, or people, or teams that get to build the future." -Sunny Han
About Fulcrum
Fulcrum applies modern technology to manufacturing processe…
260. Venture Capital Is A Game, feat. Sunny Han, Founder & CEO of Fulcrum
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Sunny looks at VC as a game, one that has rules. You can still choose to play with people good people, but know that they have objectives that may not be the same…
259. Delusion and the Series A Extension, feat. Sunny Han, Founder & CEO of Fulcrum
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After raising in the bubble of 2021, the next raise proved both challenging and humbling.
About Fulcrum
Fulcrum applies modern technology to manufacturing processe…
258. Raising Series A in 2021, feat. Sunny Han, Founder & CEO of Fulcrum
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Sunny shares, "The Series A felt like poetry. It didn't feel like finance. And I think there, underlying that, there's some delusional problems with how I was man…
257. Rapid Growth, Is It the Right Growth? feat. Sunny Han, Founder & CEO of Fulcrum
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VCs push founders for growth. Founders push their teams for growth. But is all growth the right growth?
About Fulcrum
Fulcrum applies modern technology to manufact…
256. Choosing the Right Investors, feat. Sunny Han, Founder & CEO of Fulcrum
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Sunny shares his lesson on how he would choose investors.
About Fulcrum
Fulcrum applies modern technology to manufacturing processes, helping makers focus on their…
255. Raising Seed and Reaching Investors, feat. Sunny Han, Founder & CEO of Fulcrum
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Running a targeted fundraising process—knowing who he want to reach and who can introduce him—got the fundraise moving quickly.
About Fulcrum
Fulcrum applies modern…
254. Friends, Family Fools Round, feat. Sunny Han, Founder & CEO of Fulcrum
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Sunny leveraged his personal savings and help from family to fund the pivot.
About Fulcrum
Fulcrum applies modern technology to manufacturing processes, helping ma…
253. From Consulting To Startup, Painfully, feat. Sunny Han, Founder & CEO of Fulcrum
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Starting out as a consulting business was a great way to learn what customers wanted, but caused problems as the other founders didn't want to give up the consult…
252. Meet Sunny Han, Founder & CEO of Fulcrum
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Meet Sunny Han, founder & CEO of Fulcrum. SpringTime invested in Fulcrum and has been with them through all the ups and downs.
About Fulcrum
Fulcrum applies moder…
251. Fundraise Now, Or Focus on the Business Then Raise Next Year?
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Should you back off of the business to fundraise for 3 months, or can you accomplish more by spending 4 months heads-down growing the business?
About AVL Growth P…