by Fred M. Haney | Dec 6, 2023 | Entrepreneurship, Pitch Deck, Startups
The pitch deck is the most important weapon in a startup company’s tool box. The purpose of a pitch deck is to raise capital and negotiate partnerships. But they are also used for hiring and communicating internally with employees about the company’s mission, vision,...
by Fred M. Haney | Jan 2, 2022 | Investor Resource Guide
A Slide-By-Slide Guide to a Winning Pitch Deck. You get one shot when you present to investors, so make it count. Over the past 40 years, as an investor, I have reviewed thousands of startup company pitch decks and I think fewer than 5% do an effective job of...
by Fred M. Haney | Oct 2, 2021 | Fred Haney, Pitch Deck
Introduction. When a startup company tries to raise capital from a venture capital fund, an angel investor or a group of angel investors, it prepares a “pitch deck” that explains to prospective investors exactly how the company plans to make money and how investors...
by Fred M. Haney | Sep 30, 2021 | Fred Haney
Ever more frequently, I see startup companies using SAFE (“Simple Agreement for Future Equity”) investment structures or convertible notes to avoid negotiating a seed-stage valuation for their company. There are at least two problems with this approach: The...
by Fred M. Haney | Sep 6, 2021 | Book Review
I knew when I first heard about Scott Kupor’s “Secrets of Sand Hill Road“ I would want to write a review of it. For one thing, very few top-tier venture capitalists have written books about venture capital, which has remained a fairly well kept, if not intentional,...
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