A very basic and Brief presentation on fund raising for early stage startups

1. Fund Raising 101
Nasser Ghanemzadeh
@ghanemzadeh
Cover of Fundraising Field Guide

2. “Don’t look up for Easy Money, search for
the Smart Money”
- Matias Honorato

3. Raising
Terms Valuation

7. Death by
Overvaluation

9. “Too much money too early often fucks companies up”
- Mark Suster, Upfront Ventures
“Too much money right after you hit your stride fucks
companies up”
- Mark Suster

10. Ash Maurya

11. @ghanemzadeh
Time
Traction
Problem/Solution
Fit
Product/Market
Fit
Growth
Which stage are you at?
It's very important to know.

15. Postmates scale
116 weeks to get to 500K deliveries, 20 weeks to 1M & 10 weeks to 1.5Mrbnb

18. If you are in “Seed”, don’t act like “Series A”
Series A
Seed
Pre Seed
To. 15M
To. 50M
To. 800M
To. 2B
Angel investors
Accelerators
Family and
friends
Bootstrapping
Angel group
Early stage VCs
Later stage VCs
3-6 months 6-15 months 12-18 months
●
Most of the money is spent
in acquiringnew customers
●
Building the team to run the
business
●
The funding is spent in
building the product to be
able to support a bigger
base of customers/users
●
Customer discovery
●
Changing and
modifying idea,
product and business
model
Amount of
Funding
Time
Abdullah AlshalabiAbdullah Alshalabi
To: Tomans

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22. Fund Raising 101
Nasser Ghanemzadeh
@ghanemzadeh