Money and fundraising
Two opposed routes in one place on purpose. Bootstrapping, budgeting and projections on one side; investors, accelerators, pitch competitions and raising on the other.
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Accelerators
Bootstrapping
- Bootstrap First – VC Later
- Bootstrapping a B2B SaaS to $13 Million ARR
- Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business with Jason Cohen
- How Sophia Amoruso Lost $85,000,000 from Nasty Gal
- How to decide between boostrapping and raising venture capital
- How to start a SaaS business with no money
- Jason Fried Challenges Your Thinking on Fundraising, Goals, Growth, and More
- Should Your Startup Bootstrap or Raise VC?
Bootstrapping and money
- 10 Highly Successful Bootstrapped Startups · Rob Walling — Examples of companies grown without outside investment.
- 11 bootstrapping entrepreneurs share how they found business success without funding · Foundr — Founder accounts of building businesses without outside funding.
- A founder’s perspective on bootstrapping over raising venture capital · Forbes — Opinion piece comparing self-funding with raising venture capital.
- Go ahead and start a business – but don’t quit your day job. · Harvard Business Review — Case for starting while employed rather than self-funding full-time.
- How to Become Profitable as a Bootstrapped SaaS — Reaching profitability in a self-funded SaaS business.
- Intro: Bootstrapping vs Venture Capital – Why Bootstrapping Is Better · eWebinar — Argues for self-funding over venture capital; compares the two routes.
- LTV Calculation Spreadsheet · Disciplined Entrepreneurship — Spreadsheet template for calculating customer lifetime value.
- Start Small, Stay Small – A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup. Chapter 1 · startsmall.com — Opening chapter of Rob Walling's book on self-funded software startups.
Budgeting
- A Note for Startup CEOs on Budget Chats · joelonsdale.com
- Accounting Basics for Startups: Part 1
- Budgets – There Has to Be a Better Way · Brad Feld
- How to Build a Startup Company Budget! A Step-By-Step Guide
- How to Develop Your Startup’s Annual Budget and Plan
- How to Ruin Your Company With One Bad Process (Budgeting) · a16z
- Managing Startup Finances
- Managing the Marketing Budget in a Downturn
- Startup Finance for Founders — Part I, Accounting: Bank Accounts, Credit Cards, Invoices & Contracts · rein.pk
- Startup Finance for Founders — Part II, Strategic Finance: CFOs, Annual Prepayment, Venture Debt & Shadow Budgets · rein.pk
- Strategic Budgeting Tips for Startups During Crisis
- The Art of Startup Finance: Financial Budgeting – Your Long-Term Forecast
- The Art of Startup Finance: Financial Budgeting – Your Operating Budget
- Turn Your Budgeting Process Upside Down · Harvard Business Review
Financial projections
- Build a Startup Financial Model
- Do You Know How Often You Should Be Revisiting Your Financial Forecast?
- How to Calculate Cash out Date
- If Financial Projections Are Never Accurate, Why Prepare Them?
- My Best Financial Projections for Startups Pitch Deck Slide
- Part 2
- Pre-revenue Financial Projections – Wow Angel Investors · feeltheboot.com
- Startup Financial Models – 12 Templates Compared · openvc.app
- Startup Fundraising Decks – Financial Model Template for Sales & Marketing Part 1
- The Finance Function: Looking back and Looking Forward · avc.com
- The Gross Margin Problem: Lessons for Tech-Enabled Startups
- The Most Common Mistake When Forecasting Growth for New Products (And How to Fix It) · andrewchen.com
- The Secret to Presenting Your Pitch Deck Financials
- What Is AOP in Finance – Annual Operating Plan?
- What Startups Get Wrong About Financial Modeling
Fundraising
- Clinching Your Series A
- Crowdfunding Considerations for Early Stage Companies · Mintz Edge
- Founders Need to Know This Before They Raise Venture Capital
- How Do You Know if an Investor Is Good?
- How Much Funding Is Too Little? Too Much? · pmarchive.com
- How to Ask for an Introduction · Elad Gil
- How to Build a Startup Pitch Deck in 2024
- How to Convince Investors · Paul Graham
- How to Convince Investors You’re the Future Not the Past
- How to Know When to Scale and How to Do It
- How to Perfectly Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup
- How to Raise Money · Paul Graham
- How to Raise Money Before Launch
- How to Raise Money With Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, and Parker Conrad
- How to Raise Venture Capital for Your Startup, From Pre-seed to Series A
- How to Run a Strategic Seed Round Process
- How to Structure Early-Stage Startup-Fundraising (Safe/Convertible Note vs Investment Agreements) · legalnodes.com
- Melanie Perkins of Canva on Fundraising
- Negotiating Your Venture Term Sheet · Mintz Edge
- Original AirBnB Pitch Deck · slideshare.net
- Party Rounds: How to Get a High Valuation for Your Seed Startup · Elad Gil
- Revenue Based Finance · impactterms.org
- Seed Funding Basics · Mintz Edge
- Startup Fundraising Terms Explained
- The 7 Types of Angel Investors – What Is Right for Your Startup? · Elad Gil
- The Five Most Critical Mistakes Founders Make When Raising Money · Hiten Shah
- Tracy Young’s Advice on Fundraising for Women Founders
- Venture Debt 101: A Discussion of the Basics and Key Considerations · Mintz Edge
- What is a cap table? – Overview + Example
- When and From Who to Raise Money From
- You Only Need Two Investors
Investors
- 10 Questions You Should Ask Potential Investors
- 10 Things That Make Your Investors Lose Confidence
- 5 Things to Be Wary of in VC Financings
- Ask Us Anything
- How to Cold Email Investors
- Investor Herd Dynamics · Paul Graham
- Is Your VC Founder Friendly? · ThinkGrowth
- Lessons From the Rise and Fall of Nasty Gal
- Only 23% of You Would Pick the Same VCs Again · SaaStr
- Put Your Investors to Work for You · Elad Gil
- Startups
- The 4 Questions Every Founder Should Ask Every VC That Almost No One Asks
- Update Your First Believers · outlierspath.com
- VC’s are not your friends, they’re your frenemies
- Venture Capital Red Flag Checklist · abovethecrowd.com
- What Is a SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle)?
Investors and accelerators
- 100 Accelerators & Incubators — Spreadsheet listing one hundred accelerator and incubator programmes.
- Build Your investor Pipeline · Techstars — Techstars module on building and tracking an investor pipeline.
- How to Pitch Your Startup · Y Combinator — Y Combinator talk on structuring a pitch for investors.
- How to Split Equity Among Co-Founders · Y Combinator — Y Combinator guidance on dividing founding equity between co-founders.
- List of investors, accelerators, and resources supporting underrepresented founders — Airtable directory of investors and accelerators backing underrepresented founders.
- Ryan's Seqoia inspired deck — A worked investor pitch deck following the Sequoia template.
- The Best Startup Accelerators & Incubators Around the World — Listing and comparison of accelerator and incubator programmes worldwide.
- The Truth About Y Combinator · Y Combinator — Y Combinator's account of what its accelerator programme does.
- Understanding SAFEs and Priced Equity Rounds · Y Combinator — Explains SAFE notes versus priced equity rounds and mechanics.
- Universal Pitch Deck · Startup Science — Template deck structure, presumed aimed at investor presentations.
- Y Combinator and 500 Startups – A Founders Comparison — Founder's side-by-side comparison of two accelerator programmes.
- Y Combinator Application Breakdown and Guide — Walkthrough of the Y Combinator application questions and answers.
- Y Combinator vs Techstars: Accelerators Comparison by a Three-Time Alumni · Codementor — Alumni comparison of Y Combinator and Techstars accelerator programmes.
- Y Combinator: Application & Interview Advice From a Winter ’18 Alumni — Alumni advice on the YC application and interview stages.
Pitch competitions
- Introducing the “Elevator Question” for Entrepreneurs
- Pitching For Payroll: How We Bootstrapped $1,226,500 in Pitch Competitions
- Raising Capital and Creating a Pitch Deck
- Startup Pitch Wars: How I Won 5 Pitch Battles
- The Intimacy of Start-up Pitching
- The Secret to Successfully Pitching an Idea
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