Funding resources
Videos
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Startup Funding Explained: Everything You Need to Know
An intuitive guide to the entire process from startup to stock market; covers everything from seed rounds, to VCs to the math surrounding valuation, dilution and exit. View video
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How to Raise Money For a Startup
“To bootstrap or not to bootstrap? That is the question.” View video
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Startup Valuation made simple by The VC Method
A simple visual introduction to valuation concepts like: exit value, exit multiple, discount rate and postmoney evaluation. View video
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How to Get Your Startup Idea Funded by Venture Capitalists
A Google I/O Conference panel consisting of both investors and entrepreneurs, discussing how to attract investors by increasing your startup’s appeal to them. View video
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Funding Strategies - Should you even raise money?
A nice take on the question of if you should even strive for startup funding. Shows you how to align your entrepreneurial values with your decision to raise capital or not. View video
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What Are The Startup Funding Rounds?
A great, comprehensive primer on startup funding rounds and the terminology surrounding them. View video
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Angel Investors VS. Venture Capitalists
A comparison between angel investors, super angels, and VCs. View video
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What a VC Wants
Demystifying the qualities that investor look for in entrepreneurs. View video
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What % of My Company Should Investors Get?
A quick, useful guide to the ins and outs of what percentage of your company an investor should be given. View video
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How To Find Investors For Your Business
How to find investors and get their attention! View video
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Funding Growth
Growth stages of a startup and their capital needs; based on the example of an actual business. View video
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What an Angel Investor is Looking for in a Startup
A great primer on thinking about what investors look for in a startup; the video also offers nice technical details on investing. View video
Books
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Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
Venture deals is ideal for acquainting yourself with the venture capital process–from the first to the last step. The book covers how VCs operate and covers all the essential terms surrounding investing; from vesting and anti-dilution, to drag-along agreements. It relates all the terms with real business cases, and is full of advice from venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. It is also a great primer for preparing yourself for a venture negotiation, with negotiation tactics and a review of the most crucial terms of a term sheet. A must-read if you’re seriously looking into raising capital. View book
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Mastering the VC Game
Written by someone who has been in both a startup role and a VC role, this light read is a great guide to understanding the relationship between a startup and a VC negotiating for a deal. It can guide you through ways of negotiating a funding deal, such that the VC’s vision coincides with your’s–and the deal grows into a partnership. It also covers ways of pitching your startup and highlights the important details of a single deal. A book full of insights, examples and narratives drawn from the author’s experiences and from interviews of people in businesses. View book
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What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know: An Insider Reveals How to Get Smart Funding for Your Billion Dollar Idea
A great read for any smart funding enthusiast! It uncovers ways for establishing relationships with investors who match your smart needs. In a light, though-provoking manner, the author shows the very specific smartness that investors want to experience in a company, even before getting to the financial details. It illustrates the need for: an exit strategy, “do” (rather than “due) diligence, authenticity and concrete evidence of customer validation. It goes into the minds of angel investors, showing how they view crowdfunding, teams, scalability, due diligence and term sheets. View book
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The Art of Startup Fundraising: Pitching Investors, Negotiating the Deal, and Everything Else Entrepreneurs Need to Know
A very practical guide to raising capital in the modern world of digital finance. It gives generic, but concrete explanations, tips and tricks on the entire funding process from seed stages to growth stages; giving a set of tools to build financing strategies in the modern startup world. With insights on setting milestones, understanding investment types, identifying funding rounds, gaining momentum and avoiding the common mistakes, this book is a fine blueprint for carving your financial game plans. View book
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The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital: Inside Secrets from the Leaders in the Startup Game
In the author’s own, concise words: “The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital is packed with invaluable advice about how to raise angel and venture capital funding, how to build value in a startup, and how to exit a company with maximum value for both founders and investors. It guides entrepreneurs through every step in an entrepreneurial venture from the legalities of raising initial capital to knowing when to change tactics.” View book
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Raising Capital: Get the Money You Need to Grow Your Business
With hypercompetitive landscapes in scoring startup funding, this book stands out with its highly practical, straightforward tools for fulfilling all the formalities surrounding: financing, business plans, loans, offering materials etc. It covers everything from VCs and IPO, to franchising and acquisitions. With its concrete nature that incorporates lists, charts and template forms, this book offers detailed strategies for building the financial wing of your business. View book
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The Startup Funding Book
Perhaps the most accessible, comprehensive and straightforward book on the market – specifically geared towards the topic of startup funding. It answers all the key questions that startup founders can have regarding funding; from whether they even need external financing, to knowing how to contact investors to get it. This book practically teaches you how to think like investors, and to use those insights to be more persuasive towards banks, VCs and angel investors. Definitely a must-read for any startup looking for smart funding, with the first hundred pages of the book downloadable for free! View book
Startup tools
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The Complete Startup Toolkit
It is exactly what the name says it is! Contains countless valuable resources: tool directories, curated lists, freebies for entrepreneurs, tools to learn programming, web development resources, digital marketing resources and much more View tool
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Startup Resources
“Tightly curated lists of the best startup tools”; features tools nicely categorized into a really diverse set of topics. View tool
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StartupStash
“A curated directory of resources & tools to help you build your Startup”: Contains everything you need from A to Z. View tool
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Steve Blank’s Startup Tools
A comprehensive list of startup tools; on topics ranging from finding co-founders and developing apps to customer development, recruiting and startup funding. View tool
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Y Combinator’s Startup Library
A curated list of articles covering everything surrounding startups: Scaling, hiring, pitching, equity, fundraising, valuation etc. Also contains must-read startup books and a free course on starting a startup. View tool
Websites and articles
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Wework Creator’s Fundraising Articles
Short and highly accessible articles for specific advice on your fundraising needs. A nice starting article on the site: 10 achievable steps to raising funding for your startup. View article
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Paul Graham’s Essays
A true legend in the field of investing offers his take on a wide array of topics concerning startups. Some highlights for smart funding include: How to Convince Investors, The Hacker's Guide to Investors, How to Present to Investors, The Future of Startup Funding, A Fundraising Survival Guide and How to Fund a Startup. View article
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Business Insider – Markets
Latest news, opinion pieces and advice about the world of finance. View article
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Startup Funding Book – Blog
A blog to go with the highly recommended “Startup Funding Book”; offers a fresh, straightforward take on topics like crowdfunding, public funding and investor material for startups. Does not have a lot of content yet, but that which is there is quite informative. View article
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Forbes – Startups
A popular way to keep with the current affairs and trends in the world of startups. View article
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Entrepreneur – Funding
Brilliant advice and information on all things funding. Features some nice articles on getting smart about your funding strategies. View article
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