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Resources for Ebooks
Ebook: The Fundraising Rules
The Fundraising Rules is a very clear explanation of the startup fundraising process, written by a person who has been on both sides of the fundraising process as a venture capitalist, angel investor and venture-backed startup founder. This book will guide you through the fundraising process from planning your fundraising strategy, to creating pitch materials, […]
Ebook: Startup Crash Course on Angel Funding
Talk Confidently with Angel Investors. Created to save you dozens of hours of research and help you avoid common pitfalls, this guide helps you build your angel investing process knowledge base, sort out key terminology, and understand the moving parts of equity fundraising.
Ebook: Founder’s Pocket Guide: Startup Valuation
For many early-stage entrepreneurs assigning a pre-money valuation to your startup is one of the more daunting tasks encountered during the fundraising quest. This guide provides a quick reference to all of the key topics around early-stage startup valuation and provides step-by-step examples for several valuation methods.
Ebook: Startup Seed Funding for the Rest of Us
You have aspirations for creating a startup company that will change the world, but need startup capital in order to make that happen. Where do you start? How can you raise serious funding when you don’t have many connections or live outside of a major startup community like Silicon Valley?
Ebook: Inside Silicon Valley
Reading “Inside Silicon Valley” will give you real insight into how VC deals get done. Written by Marc Phillips, Managing Partner of the Silicon Valley-based VC firm Arafura Ventures, this book walks you through a slide-by-slide approach to developing and delivering a successful pitch deck, from crafting your positioning line to pulling together your financials. We […]
Ebook: What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know
Written by Brian Cohen, Chairman of the New York Angels, early investor in Pinterest and current cofounder of Launch.It, the book “What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know” gives great insight and concrete advice to startup founders on how to find an angel that is a good match for their company, how angel investors view the investing […]
Ebook: Raising Capital
Gone are the days when VC groups pour millions into every next big thing. Competition is fierce, and only the most viable businesses with expert fundraising will reap the capital necessary to drive continuous growth. Read “Raising Capital: Get the Money You Need to Grow Your Business” by Andrew J. Sherman.
Ebook: Pitch Anything
A poorly executed pitch can really put a damper on your efforts to secure funding. he book “Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading and Winning the Deal” by Oren Klaff contains simple and actionable advice that will help you sell the value of your product or business idea effortlessly to anyone.
Ebook: The Guide to Raising Capital from Family, Friends and Founders
The Guide to Raising Capital from Family, Friends and Founders overviews best practices for raising money from the first people you go to — your family, friends and founders.
Ebook: Slicing the pie
Slicing Pie is not complicated. It is a simple formula based on the principle that a person’s % share of the equity should always be equal to that person’s share of the at-risk contributions.
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