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
090. How To Interview A Startup Lawyer
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Does your lawyer know what NVCA stands for and where to find the NVCA standard docs? If not, they're going to make you look like a fool in term sheet negotiations…
089. Strategize With Your Lawyer
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Your lawyer should be a resource who can help you achieve your strategy, making the law work for your business.
Carlos Cruz-Abrams joins us this week, sharing his …
088. You Don't Know What You Don't Know
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Great lawyers will help founders find and understand the things they don't know that they don't know.
Carlos Cruz-Abrams joins us this week, sharing his decades of…
087. Why You Need A Startup Lawyer
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A few things have come up recently that have reminded me of the importance of having a great startup lawyer in your fundraise. SpringTime's lawyer, Carlos Cruz-A…
086. Share Your Advice
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I want to have your insights on the VC Minute. What can you share about your fundraise journey for the VC Minute community?
Here's some prompts to get you start…
Building An Insider (Not Bridge) Round
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Not only do I despise the term Bridge Round, but it's compounded by the many misconceptions that startups have about them. I decided to spend a week talking about…
085. Insider Round
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Here are my four steps to successfully raising an Insider Round.
PS - I have a huge favor to ask. Will suggest VC Minute as a guest on the 20 Minute VC? It will on…
084. Didn't Go According To Plan
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The story of a bridge round is always the same from an investor's perspective. You raised money. It wasn't enough. And now you're coming back to raise even less m…
083. Greater Fool Theory
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In a world of information asymmetry, your current investors have the most information. And if they're not willing to step up, that is a very bad sign.
About S…
082. Seed Investing Is A Team Sport
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Seed investing is a team sport. The fewer team members you have around the table, the weaker position you're in, and the less likely you're going to get to the ne…
081. About That Bridge Round
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This week we're covering that Dreaded Bridge Round - why it's the hardest round to raise and how you can avoid it.
Episode 37 - Bridge Round
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080. Generating Aha Moments
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How do you generate your Aha Moment? With practice and iteration.
Link to 20 Minute VC - Feb 13, 2023 ~ 25:55
About SpringTime Ventures
SpringTime Ventures seeds h…
079. Aha Moment
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The best pitches create Aha Moments You'll know when you've hit it because the tone of the meeting changes. It becomes a true dialogue,, the questions come from a…
078. Know Your Numbers
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As the CEO of this business, you are going to be responsible ultimately for every aspect of it. Show that you know your numbers and it shows that you know your bu…
077. Pitching A Pivot
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Put the focus on what the business is and the vision for its future. Use the past and the pivot to support that story.
About SpringTime Ventures
SpringTime Ven…
076. Storytelling About You
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An investment into your startup, is an investment into you.
About SpringTime Ventures
SpringTime Ventures seeds high-growth startups in healthcare, fintech, logis…
075. Getting Funded On Proof and Winning Grants feat. Kat Weaver
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Men get funded on potential and women get funded on proof.
About Power To Pitch
Power To Pitch offers a virtual Course & Community, to help pre-seed to seed stage f…
074 . Transparency feat. Kat Weaver
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Giving up equity, it's a marriage. You have to be transparent with your partner in a relationship in order for it to be successful.
About Power To Pitch
Power To P…
073. Investors Are Not Your Customers feat. Kat Weaver
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You can get investment from someone who is not an actual user of it. Founders need to be educators.
About Power To Pitch
Power To Pitch offers a virtual Course & C…
072. Storytelling feat. Kat Weaver
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We always say that lead with your story. An investor and your audience buys into you before what you do. When you're leading with that story, it also builds cred…