where are the investors hiding

Where are the investors and angels hiding?

You are going through a nerve-wracking experience. You have sent out many emails and reached out to many investors over so many social channels and yet got no response. If this describes your problem, then read on…….. Let me give you a bit of a background. Parul Madan and I have been serial entrepreneurs and moved into angel investing a few years ago. We…

fundraising advice

Fundraising Advice

Advice #1 You’re not ready to raise capital when you’re buried in personal debt. I’m mentoring a number of founders and one in particular is trying to solve funding his startup, plus his own income at the same time from the intended new capital. It doesn’t work like that. At least not as your motivation.…

6-mistakes-scaled

Six mistakes you’re making when writing your investment pitch

Once you’ve created all the content for your pitch, you are probably ready to sit back and admire your hard work. Sorry to break it to you, but you’re not done yet. Once you’ve picked out all the tastiest morsels of content that demonstrate how fantastic this opportunity is for investors, you need to go…

raising capital with a pitch deck

Can you raise capital with just a pitch deck?

There are so many ideas out there, so how do investors judge if yours is the next rocket to take off? What happens when you send a pitch deck to investors You just sent an investor pitch deck over email, LinkedIn, or somewhere else. Great! You feel a bit of anxiety over it and how…

Zooming our way to a virtual accelerator

Zooming our way to a virtual accelerator

As we embarked on this exciting journey last year to launch a very specialized 5G startup accelerator program here in Cologne/Bonn, Germany; little did we know that we will be hit by a pandemic which would dramatically impact all our planning and execution. COVID-19 changed the world for all of us in more than one way and we had…

Solving a problem

Is your business really solving a problem?

Young entrepreneurs often tend to imagine how great their product or service will be on the market and even bring change to people’s behavior. Often, they even fail to bring their product on the market. Many times, the problem begins with the same: The “problem” that the business tries solving. Advice #1: Don’t come up…

Pitch With Purpose

Pitch with Purpose: The five objectives you must meet in to win over investors

It doesn’t matter how brilliant your business idea is, without the perfect pitch it’s unlikely you’ll win investment. Your pitch is critical to getting you into a room with investors who are sufficiently intrigued to hear your full business plan. So, putting together the perfect pitch requires the right strategy and carefully crafted messaging that…

Creating a Pitchdeck for VCs

Creating a Pitchdeck for VCs

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…

Startuprad.io - Interview with Parul Madan (DueDash)

DueDash wants to help startups become investable

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…