fundraising
Prompts tagged with "fundraising"
Handle a Raise That Isn't Coming Together
Diagnoses why a round has stalled and lays out the real options while you still have cash to choose between them. Use it when you're months in with...
Apply for a Grant or Non-Dilutive Funding
Works out which non-dilutive funding you actually qualify for and writes the application against the assessor's criteria rather than your own enthu...
Prepare a Data Room and Survive Diligence
Assembles what investors will ask for, finds the problems before they do, and decides how to disclose the ones you can't fix. Use it as soon as a t...
Understand What a Term Sheet Actually Costs You
Translates a term sheet into what it means for your ownership, your control, and your outcome in the cases that matter. Use it before you respond t...
Prepare for the Questions That Kill Pitches
Surfaces the questions that will expose the weakest part of your story and builds answers that hold up under a second and third follow-up. Use it t...
Write an Investor Cold Email That Earns a Meeting
Writes the short, forwardable outreach email that gets a first call, and the intro request that gets a warm path instead. Use it for every investor...
Build an Investor Target List and Work Out Who Actually Fits
Turns a scattershot outreach plan into a researched, sequenced list of investors who genuinely invest in businesses like yours. Use it before sendi...
Write the Pitch Deck Narrative Before You Design a Slide
Builds the argument a deck has to make, in order, so the design stage has something to carry. Use it before opening a template.
Build a Financial Model an Investor Will Believe
Constructs a driver-based financial model with assumptions you can defend individually, instead of a spreadsheet that grows 20% a month because it ...
Size Your Market Without Making Up a TAM
Builds a bottom-up market size from counts and prices you can defend, and kills the top-down percentage-of-a-huge-number slide. Use it before any p...
Work Out How Much to Raise and What It Buys You
Sizes a round from the milestone it has to reach rather than from a round name, and tests whether that milestone clears the next bar. Use it before...
Decide Whether You Should Raise Money at All
Tests whether venture funding is the right instrument for your business, or whether debt, revenue, or patience would serve you better. Use it befor...