There are tons of articles out there talking about how to design a pitchdeck for investors. I want to share a structured way of creating your pitchdeck from the perspective of investors. One mistake I have seen many founders make is that they use one deck for sending to investors and also the same while…
In this interview we talk to the investor and founder Parul Madan, who is the co-founder of the entrepreneur network DueDash. Parul can look back at more than 11 years as an employee in well-known companies (Ericson, Unitymedia (now part of Vodafone Germany)). The jobs brought her from India to Germany and the US. After some…
If you’ve attended one of my Fundraising Strategy Sessions, then you know I talk about your chances of raising investment. And you’ll also know I advocate an Expression of Interest form (EOI) as one of your five key pitch assets to support you in your fundraising journey. Here’s why: VC, Speedinvest, recently released data that…
In Köln und Umgebung lässt es sich gut leben, feiern und gründen. Auch in den vergangenen Wochen sind wieder einige spannende neue Startups in Köln entstanden. Einige sehr junge Startups davon stellen wie an dieser Stelle einmal vor. Das junge Kölner Unternehmen DueDash bringt Gründer und Experten aus aller Welt auf einer Plattform zusammen. Gegründet wurde das Startup von Markus Buck,…
Das junge Unternehmen DueDash bringt Gründer und Experten aus aller Welt zusammen. Das Motto dabei lautet “Making Startups Investable”. Konkret es somit um Unterstützung sein Geschäft aufzubauen und Investmentgelder zu erhalten. Auf der Website leist sich dies wie folgt: “We bring together founders and experts from the global startup ecosystem to educate on startup and…
If you want to win investment, it’s a smart idea to get inside the mind of your potential investors. These shrewd people are likely to be seeing over ten investment opportunities per week, and of those businesses, they’ll only invest in 1%. They know that statistically, around 95% of their investment portfolio will fail. So,…
Your new technology can have a little salami as a treat; A story by Jennifer Dodgson on how luck and labor enabled her to receive funding from her angel investor Jay Teo. Question(Q): I hear you have some money. Can I get some money too? Answer (A): Well, maybe not right now, given the circumstances,…
Die Startup Boost Cologne Lineup steht. 10 Startups wurden für das Programm ausgewählt. Bewerbungskriterien waren neben einem marktreifen Technologieprodukt auch nachweisliches Kundeninteresse sowie ein international skalierbares Geschäftsmodell. “Wir wollen die Region zu einem der zentralen Startup- und Technologie-Hotspots in Europa machen”, sagt KölnBusiness-Geschäftsführer Manfred Janssen. “Mit dem Programm unterstützen wir Gründerinnen und Gründer dabei, ihr…
Taking your entrepreneurial idea from an exciting concept to multi-million-pound success story requires significant investment. There are four different phases of the Fundraising Journey – bootstrapping, start-up, scale-up and exit. In those first two early stages, you need to be astute about when to seek investment and the equity you offer in exchange. Plenty of…
It may feel strange to talk about leaving your business when you are in the early stages of building it. However, having a clear exit strategy is vital to securing investment and achieving your financial goals. Clarity around your exit enables you to keep a focus on two critical objectives – retaining as much equity…
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