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A Guide to Seed Fundraising

Y Combinator

Cap Table

Advice on Pitching

Y Combinator

Pitching

Startup Pitch Deck Templates

Nextview VC

Pitch Decks

VC Cold Email Template

High Output

Investor Outreach

Virtual Fundraising

Julia Austin

Fundraising Process

10 Reasons to Join (and Not to Join) an Accelerator

Alex Iskold

Accelerators

12 Tips for Founders to Get the Most Out of Mentor Meetings

Alex Iskold

Accelerators

500 Online and Offline Accelerators

Lolita Taub

Accelerators

7 Things To Do To Get The Most Out Of An Accelerator Program

Alex Iskold

Accelerators

A Guide to Preemptive Funding Offers

Y Combinator

Cap Table

A Guide to Seed Fundraising

Y Combinator

Cap Table

Angelcalc Cap Table Model

Geoff Ralston

Cap Table

Cap Table Simulator

645 Ventures

Cap Table

Founder Equity 101

Matt Howland

Cap Table

How to Make a Cap Table

Venture Hacks

Cap Table

MBA Mondays: Cap Tables

Fred Wilson

Cap Table

The Immutable Math of Cap Tables

Chris Harvey (@chrisharveyesq)

Cap Table

Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

Mark Suster

Cap Table

Term Sheet Glossary for Convertible Financing

Rubicon Law

Financing

Alternatives to VC Funding That All Founders Should Know About

Lolita Taub

Funding Options

Crowdfunding Is Debt

Ben Einstein

Funding Options

Financing Options For Startups - AVC

Fred Wilson

Funding Options

When & How to Raise Venture Capital

Frank Rimalovski

Timing

When to Raise a Series A

Y Combinator

Timing

When to and Why to Raise a Seed

Y Combinator

Timing

Virtual Fundraising

Julia Austin

Fundraising Process

What All Founders Should Do Before Fundraising

Lolita Taub

Fundraising Process

A Playbook for Fundraising

Lenny Rachitsky

Fundraising Strategy

First-Time Founder Guide to Fundraising Amid COVID

Lolita Taub

Fundraising Strategy

How to Close a Pre-Seed in a Virtual World

January Ventures

Fundraising Strategy

Raising a Seed Round

Steve Schlafman

Fundraising Strategy

Using Current Investors to Develop Your Fundraising Approach

OpenView Ventures

Fundraising Strategy

The Bull Case for Cold-Calling VCs

Liron Azrielant

Investor Outreach

What All Founders Should do Before and When Asking for Investor Intros

Lolita Taub

Investor Outreach

Early Stage Investors in NYC - Angels, Seed and VCs

Colin Nederkoorn

Investor Research

Investors and Their Incentives

Aaron Harris

Investor Research

List of Female Angel and Early-Stage Investors in Tech

Mackenzie Burnett

Investor Research

NFX Signal - Fundraising CRM

NfX

Investor Research

Selecting Your Investors

Matt Blumberg

Investor Research

What's the First Thing You Need to Do Before Fundraising?

Mark Suster

Investor Research

100+ Pitch Deck Examples From the Most Successful Startups (Pitch Deck Hunt)

BaseTemplates

Pitch Decks

Pitch Deck Tear Down: Mixpanel

Nicolas Carteron

Pitch Decks

The 10-Slide Startup Pitch Deck Is Dead

Kalev Kaarna

Pitch Decks

Advice on Pitching

Y Combinator

Pitching

Fundraisedd

Nicholas Carterton

Pitching

How Pitching Investors is Different Than Pitching Customers

Y Combinator

Pitching

Investor Meeting Roleplaying

Fred Wilson

Pitching

Pitching - A Guide to Seed Fundraising

Y Combinator

Pitching

The 7 (Pitching) Habits of Highly Effective Founders

Edith Yeung

Pitching

What Makes a Good Pitch

Mark Suster

Pitching

What Should You Send a VC Before Your Meeting?

Mark Suster

Pitching

Fundraising and Termsheet 101

Michael H. Lints

Term Sheets

How Venture Works: Term Sheets and Napkins

Adam Draper

Term Sheets

How to Read a Term Sheet

Hyde Street Angels

Term Sheets

How to Talk About Valuation When a VC Asks

Mark Suster

Term Sheets

Revisiting the Term Sheet

Brad Feld

Term Sheets

SAFEs

Y Combinator

Term Sheets

The Economics of Term Sheets

Andreessen Horowitz

Term Sheets

The Option Pool Shuffle - Venture Hacks

Nivi Ravikant

Term Sheets

What Every Early-Stage Founder Should Know About Valuations

Lolita Taub

Term Sheets

What the Seed Funding Boom Means for Raising a Series A

First Round Capital

Timing

Fundraising Advice to Avoid

Andreessen Horowitz

VC Perspective

How Investors Use Metrics to Evaluate, Pick and Reject Startups

Andrew Chen

VC Perspective

How to Improve Your Odds of Getting to Yes with a VC — “Land and Expand”

Mark Suster

VC Perspective

Inside the Blackbox of Venture Capital

Mike Maples

VC Perspective

Key B2B Metrics You Need To Communicate To An Investor

Poornima Vijayashanker

VC Perspective

Metrics VCs Care About

Bloomberg Beta

VC Perspective

The Cap Table Newsletter

The Cap Table

VC Perspective

Fundraising Dos and Don'ts

Y Combinator

VC Perspective

Cap Table & Exit Waterfall Tool

Foresight

Cap Table

90 Grants to Fund Your Startup

Manos Accelerator

Funding Options

VC Cold Email Template

High Output

Investor Outreach

All the Public Startup Pitch Decks in One Place

Startup Grind

Pitch Decks

Pitch Deck Template

Sequoia Capital

Pitch Decks

Startup Pitch Deck Templates

Nextview VC

Pitch Decks

Investment Memo Template

Steve Schlafman

VC Perspective