AskAlex Podcast
By Alexander Jarvis
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Episodes: 138
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Hey guys! I’m Alexander Jarvis, a nomad, startup founder, sometime VC and recovered M&A banker. In this series we’re going to answer a question real founders and investors are struggling with every day. They won’t be generic topics, they’ll be tricky things you need to know, from how to fix your business model, specific aspects of growth marketing, fundraising and pitching investors, to how you track your metrics (that VCs want to know!). I’ve been blogging for a few years at AlexanderJarvis.com building epic founder tools and delving into complicated topics no one writes about. I love helping founders and podcasting is a fab new channel to share the one on mentoring I provide. #askalex
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What questions should you ask a potential startup cofounder?
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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The real reason launch a startup faster (not talked about)
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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Sole founders are bad. You can’t build a billion dollar despicable me startup.
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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Fundable startups and fundable
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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25 startups that raised without a product
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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The two key business model tests to know if you are fundable
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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How big can this get Market sizing has killed many startup fundraises
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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What is the difference between a founder and the board of director?
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Jan 27, 2019 |
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Will investors fun my startup idea?
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Jan 26, 2019 |
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The real reason founders are not funded VCs don’t say in a pitch process
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Jan 25, 2019 |
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Passion is over-rated. Build a better mousetrap instead
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Jan 24, 2019 |
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Use Dollars in your startup, especially for your financial model
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Jan 23, 2019 |
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One trick I learned to fire your staff without getting sued, tears and shouting
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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AAI 007 Scopeleads - How to fix churn when it's your biggest issues as a SaaS startup
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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A reputation comes at a cost, and should
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Nov 30, 2018 |
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Ask dumb questions. It’s the smartest thing you can do
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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Founder Control and Value Creation in Startups don’t seem to be the same thing
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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How founders should dress when pitching a VC your startup
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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How do you validate a startup idea
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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How to do a demo in a venture capital pitch
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Nov 23, 2018 |
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Before they were famous. 15 startup pivot to fame. 8 Youtube
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Nov 06, 2018 |
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Startup and scaleups - The differences between running a ten and hundred person startup
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Nov 05, 2018 |
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Before they were famous. 15 startup pivot to fame. 7 Woot and Yelp
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Nov 05, 2018 |
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A storytelling pitch exercise improv artists use which can help you raise
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Nov 02, 2018 |
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Before they were famous. 15 startup pivot to fame. 6 twitter and turntable
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Nov 02, 2018 |
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Before they were famous. 15 startup pivot to fame. 5 Shopify and Slack
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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Before they were famous. 15 startup pivot to fame. 4 Pinterest and Rovio.
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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Before they were famous. 15 startup pivot to fame. 3 Nokia and PayPal
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Oct 30, 2018 |
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Before they were famous. 15 startup pivot to fame. 2 Groupon and Instagram
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Oct 29, 2018 |
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Before they were famous. 15 startup pivot to fame. 1 Android and Flickr
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Oct 27, 2018 |
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Before they were famous. 15 startup pivot to fame. 0 Intro
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Oct 27, 2018 |
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22 Tips on Pixar Storytelling Applied to Startups
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Oct 27, 2018 |
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HQQA 68 What will my return be?
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Oct 22, 2018 |
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HQQA 67 What price would you sell this for? Has anyone approached to buy you?
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Oct 19, 2018 |
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HQQA 64 How much do you want to sell for?
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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A simple trick to make writing your company description easy
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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HQQA 66 Why will someone buy you for a billion?
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Oct 12, 2018 |
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HQQA 65 What can you sell this for. What is the exit multiple?
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Oct 11, 2018 |
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HQQA 63 Are there many buyers for this?
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Oct 09, 2018 |
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HQQA 62 What is the geographic fit with potential acquirors?
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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HQQA 61 Why is someone going to buy this?
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Oct 05, 2018 |
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HQQA 60 Who is going to buy this?
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Oct 04, 2018 |
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HQQA059 How do your customers think about ROI on their spend on your product/service, and what kind of ROI do they typically see?
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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HQQA058 If your equity/salary was based completely on the accuracy of your projections, what would your forecast be?
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Oct 01, 2018 |
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HQQA 057 What are the profit margins? What might the margins be once the company reaches scale?
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Sep 30, 2018 |
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AAI 006: PupSocks - Issues with scaling revenue when you tap out the market
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Sep 29, 2018 |
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AAI 005: WorldsBest - Importance of business model validation before coding
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Sep 28, 2018 |
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AAI 004: SupplyCompass - Cash flow and implications with investors
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Sep 27, 2018 |
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AAI 003: RawDog - Expansion and issues with being a sole founder with investors
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Sep 26, 2018 |
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AAI 002: Athetai - Hiring issues and issuing shares
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Sep 25, 2018 |
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AAI 001: PureMoney - Importance of testing an idea before launch
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Sep 24, 2018 |
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HQQA056 What are your 3 year projections?
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Feb 25, 2018 |
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HQQA055 What’s your price point, and what’s your pricing methodology, and why did you settle on both of these?
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Feb 24, 2018 |
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HQQA054 How quickly are revenues growing? What is fuelling that? What are the bottlenecks?
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Feb 23, 2018 |
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HQQA053 What’s your business model?
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Feb 22, 2018 |
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HQQA052 How do you make money?
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Feb 21, 2018 |
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HQQA051 How many customers do you need to break even?
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Feb 20, 2018 |
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HQQA050 What do you do if your top line expectations do not match expectations?
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Feb 19, 2018 |
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HQQA049 What are the key drivers of growth?
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Feb 18, 2018 |
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HQQA048 What are the key assumptions in your model?
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Feb 17, 2018 |
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HQQA047 Do you have a model?
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Feb 16, 2018 |
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HQQA046 What ESOP is left?
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Feb 15, 2018 |
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HQQA045 What percentage of the company’s equity do the employees and founders currently own?
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Feb 14, 2018 |
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HQQA044 How large is your ESOP pool?
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Feb 13, 2018 |
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HQQA043 How can you reduce your break-even rate point up 6 months in your plan?
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Feb 12, 2018 |
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HQQA042 Are you focused on growth or profitability?
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Feb 11, 2018 |
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HQQA041 When will you be profitable?
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Feb 10, 2018 |
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HQQA040 Walk us through the fully burdened unit economics of your product or service?
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Feb 09, 2018 |
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HQQA 039 If you could pick only one non-financial metric to measure the success of the business, what would it be?
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Feb 08, 2018 |
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HQQA 038 What KPI are you focused on?
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Feb 07, 2018 |
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HQQA 037 How will your burn rate increase after the round?
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Feb 06, 2018 |
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HQQA 036 What is your burn rate?
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Feb 05, 2018 |
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HQQA 035 If you knew with 100% certainty that you were to raise significantly more funding, what would you do?
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Feb 04, 2018 |
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HQQA 034 How to get venture capital funding if you knew you wouldn't raise more funding?
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Feb 03, 2018 |
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HQQA 033 Have you thought about going to an accelerator?
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Feb 02, 2018 |
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HQQA 032 Did you think about crowdfunding?
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Feb 01, 2018 |
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HQQA 031 Do you have any government grants?
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Jan 31, 2018 |
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HQQA 030 Do you have convertible notes? What are the terms?
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Jan 30, 2018 |
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HQQA 029 Why isn't your existing lead leading this round?
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Jan 29, 2018 |
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HQQA 028 What are your investors pro-rata rights?
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Jan 28, 2018 |
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HQQA 027 Are your existing investors investing in this round?
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Jan 27, 2018 |
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HQQA 026 Who are your investors?
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Jan 26, 2018 |
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HQQA 025 Have you thought about raising venture debt?
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Jan 25, 2018 |
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HQQA 024 How long have you been raising?
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Jan 24, 2018 |
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HQQA 023 How much do you have committed so far?
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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HQQA 022 Do you have a lead?
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Jan 22, 2018 |
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HQQA 021 What are the terms of the deal?
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Jan 21, 2018 |
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HQQA 020 What are your valuation expectations?
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Jan 20, 2018 |
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HQQA 019 What is your valuation at the last round?
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Jan 19, 2018 |
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HQQA 018 What are your deal expectations?
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Jan 18, 2018 |
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HQQA 017 There may be a conflict with one of our portfolio companies, are you happy to talk to us?
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Jan 17, 2018 |
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HQQA 016 What value, besides capital, would you hope to see our firm provide your startup?
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Jan 16, 2018 |
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HQQA 015 Why do you want to raise from us, specifically?
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Jan 15, 2018 |
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HQQA 014 When are you looking to close?
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Jan 14, 2018 |
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HQQA 013 Who else are you talking to?
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Jan 13, 2018 |
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HQQA 012 Are you raising at the moment?
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Jan 12, 2018 |
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HQQA 011 Who is your ideal investor?
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Jan 11, 2018 |
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HQQA 010 How much do you want to raise at your next round?
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Jan 10, 2018 |
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HQQA 009 How much more money do you plan on raising?
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Jan 09, 2018 |
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HQQA 008 When do you want to raise next?
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Jan 08, 2018 |
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HQQA 007 What will your runway be for this round?
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Jan 07, 2018 |
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HQQA 006 What is your startup runway?
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Jan 06, 2018 |
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HQQA 005 Why are you raising now?
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Jan 05, 2018 |
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HQQA 004 What are your milestones for the next round?
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Jan 04, 2018 |
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HQQA 003 Why do you want to fundraise [$10m]?
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Jan 03, 2018 |
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HQQA 002 What will be your use of capital? How will you spend it?
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Jan 02, 2018 |
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HQQA 001 How much are you raising?
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Jan 01, 2018 |
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AA 031: Asking founders their startup valuation tell you nothing
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Dec 31, 2017 |
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AA 030: Importance of founder confidence when pitching
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Dec 30, 2017 |
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AA 029: 35 things not what not to do in your pitch deck
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Dec 29, 2017 |
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AA 028: How founders should dress when pitching a VC your startup
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Dec 28, 2017 |
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AA 027: The two key business model tests to know if you are fundable
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Dec 27, 2017 |
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AA 026: Who are your startup competitors?
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Dec 26, 2017 |
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AA 025: Should you watermark your pitch deck when sending your presentation to investors?
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Dec 25, 2017 |
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AA 024: How do you manage social media?
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Dec 24, 2017 |
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AA 023: How can I get competitor information?
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Dec 23, 2017 |
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AA 022: Should I talk to my startup competitors?
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Dec 22, 2017 |
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AA 021: How do I get introductions to investors?
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Dec 21, 2017 |
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AA 020: How important is the team in getting funded?
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Dec 20, 2017 |
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AA 019: Will investors sign my NDA?
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Dec 19, 2017 |
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AA 018: What is your opinion on intellectual property for VC valuation?
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Dec 18, 2017 |
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AA 017: When will the deep learning bubble burst?
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Dec 17, 2017 |
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AA 016: Will someone who is not good in mathematics ever be successful in doing business?
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Dec 16, 2017 |
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AA 015: How common is it that series A investors have better liquidation preference terms than investors in a later round?
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Dec 15, 2017 |
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AA 014: Where can I get pitch deck feedback for my startup?
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Dec 14, 2017 |
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AA 0013 Can you negotiate different valuation caps for each investor
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Dec 13, 2017 |
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AA 012: Should startups bake processes into their company early on?
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Dec 12, 2017 |
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AA 011: How to pitch two ideas to a VC?
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Dec 11, 2017 |
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AA 010: Convertible note explained. Can you lose the whole company?
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Dec 10, 2017 |
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AA 009: What are some tips for founders attending an industry conference?
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Dec 09, 2017 |
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AA 008: What's the best time in a startup's life to approach an investor?
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Dec 08, 2017 |
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AA 007: In what ways can Angel and Seed Investors have an impact in their portfolio companies and add value other than writing cheques?
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Dec 07, 2017 |
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AA 006: What is an angel investor's view if a founder is running 2 different startups?
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Dec 06, 2017 |
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AA 005: Should I include a cap table and valuation proposal in my Series A presentation?
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Dec 05, 2017 |
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AA 004: Is Kylie Jenner's cosmetic company really worth $400 million?
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Dec 04, 2017 |
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AA 003: How can I prepare for a meeting with a potential pre-seed investor?
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Dec 03, 2017 |
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AA 002: What is your advice for new entrepreneurs?
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Dec 02, 2017 |
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AA 001: Why is viral cycle time important for planning viral marketing efforts?
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Dec 01, 2017 |