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…
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.…
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…
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…
Your pitch is your story – and you need to tell it brilliantly. It’s a compelling narrative that should take your investor on a journey, which hopefully ends with them keen to get on board. So, when you create your pitch, the first thing you need to consider is the structure you’ll follow. After all,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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