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
014. Deadlines
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The last piece in your toolkit for driving action is deadlines. When you've got enough capital around the table, it's time to pull it in. And nothing drives actio…
013. Pooled Interest
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Pooled Interest or Soft Circled investors is how you use your system to move through investors systems.
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012. Sales Process
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You need to treat your fundraise like a sales process. The difference is that with fundraising, you need to close everyone all at once.
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011. Work Your System
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Do you have an investor update list? Are you using a CRM? You should be doing both.
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010. Put Your Email in the Deck
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Bonus episode today: Put your email in your pitch deck. That is all.
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009. Week 1 Wrap
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That's a wrap for the first week of VC minute. I hope you enjoyed the kickoff . We're going to pick this back up next week on Monday.
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008. Work Within Investors Systems
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Working within an investor's system means getting through their process.
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007. Drive Action, Not Conviction
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You can't force conviction, but you can drive action.
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006. Expect more SHITS
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Expect that over the next few months, you are going to get a lot of the SHITS from investors.
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005. SHITS
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Show High Interest Then Stall - the VC strategy you hate.
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004. Overstating Commitments
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If you state that you have a million committed, there better be a million dollars worth of capital in that pool, ready to party.
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003. Communicating To Your Pool Party
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The only way other investors will know that there are other people in the pool is if you tell them.
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002. Chief Pool Party Officer
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Your job as the Chief Pool Party Officer involves organization and communication.
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001. Pool Party
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Raising a seed round is like throwing a pool party.
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VC Minute Trailer
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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.
Each episode is less than 2 minutes …