It doesn’t matter how compelling your pitch deck might be, it’s just a beautifully constructed paperweight if you don’t have a coherent fundraising strategy. You need to put a lot of serious, calculated thought into targeting the right type of investors and creating opportunities to get your pitch in front of them. You’ll also need to strategise how you’ll…
Do you believe in magic and myths? This article explores one that we see all the time. The ‘unicorn startup myth’ where it’s believed that successful startups can grow rapidly to become multi-billion dollar companies. It’s something to aspire for, but is it all that it’s cracked up to be? When you’re the founder of…
It’s human nature to have a fear of missing out – and investors deal with FOMO just like the rest of us. Check out how you can harness potential investors’ FOMO to pave your path to investment success. With the fear of missing out, investors suffer more because they’re acutely aware of how disastrous letting a potentially…
DynAmaze is a B2B2C platform on which we sell free capacities of high-quality leisure providers such as spas, amusement parks, and zoos to end customers. Unlike other platforms, we use dynamic prices that adapt to the utilization of the respective provider and only refer customers when the provider has free capacities. Founding story DynAmaze: Our story…
In this article, I want to talk about the VC investment process to give you an idea of how the investment process goes on. There are some steps that can be different depending on the VC. First of all, a quick note about the fund life and investment period. VC funds have a fund life…
DueDash Cologne is sharing the stories of exciting startups from the region to enable you to learn from their successes and become investable and consumer-focused businesses as well. In this interview, we talked with VYTAL founder Sven Witthoeft. He tells us how they are reducing plastic waste, quickly scaled their team, financed their business, and more. Below the…
VoOmsway, a team of eleven, helps transportation companies in mining their data collected over time, interpreting and presenting them in user-friendly and understandable forms to draw future inferences to ensure optimal safety and profitability of the business. Founder’s story Voomsway: Back in Emmanuel’s university days, he and Kingsley (the CTO) had a knack for technology…
It doesn’t matter how expertly you’ve nailed down your perfect pitch, met the five essential objectives that will encourage an investor to back you, or fine-tuned your fundraising strategy to ensure it’s as bulletproof as possible, there’s still a possibility that you won’t be able to raise investment for even the most creative and innovative business proposal. Why?…
Imagine this. You and your friend are having a conversation about your favorite subjects. Your friend is a history buff, and thoroughly enjoys reading about battles fought and kingdoms won. You, on the other hand, find history stuffy and have only painful memories of enduring endless classes as the teacher droned on. How can the…
Let’s take a couple of things as given. First, you’ve got a highly investable business idea that any investor worth their salt will want in on. Second, you can turn that idea into reality and make it a tremendous success. So, the question you need to ask yourself is if you’ve got the vital component…
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