Climb the Vertical Learning Curve
Founders need to master a huge number of skills and topics all while scrambling to keep their business running.
Feel the Boot is here to walk with you along the difficult and rewarding path you have chosen.
105. How to Make Your Startup Elevator Pitch Effective 🚀 and Get Venture Capital Investment
Your elevator pitch is more than just an introduction; it’s the gateway to potential investment and growth opportunities.
98. Startup Fundraising Facilitators 🐍 Surviving the Pit of Serpents!
Raising money from investors is a long, arduous process, so many founders seek help.
In response, a whole cadre of people specializing in that sprang up, often called fundraising facilitators. The problem is that most of them appear to be ineffective at best and harmful at worst.
97. Exposing the top reasons for angel investment pre-screen rejections
How demoralizing is spending hours on a pitch deck and associated materials only to get ghosted by the investor or receive an automated form rejection?
89. Non-Dilutive Startup Fundraising 💰 SBIR Grants for Innovation
In this interview, Caroline Arzoo, Director of Partnerships at OmniSync, and I discuss the different options for funding a startup, with a focus on non-dilutive funding.
85. How venture capital kills startups ☠️
VC investment is a double-edged sword. It can launch your startup like a rocket, but it can also cause it to explode on the launch pad.
Learn how taking venture capital investments can destroy your company.
84. How to start angel investing
Angel investing can seem intimidating at first. This article will teach you a low-risk way to get started and how to maximize your long-term results.
82. 📉Startup Fundraising in a Bear Market
When the economy gets rocky, raising funds for your startup is more challenging.
In this article, I show how to adapt your fundraising strategy and position your company for maximum success.
78. Investment Term Sheets: Explanations, Red Flags, and where to push back
Money from investors should fuel your startup's exponential growth. But a lousy term sheet can leave the company spluttering on the launch pad with nothing to show for all your hard work.
77. Pitching when tech’s glitching. Handle PowerPoint failure with style!
Sometimes when you pitch, the technology won’t cooperate. Learn to handle it so you look as good or better than you would have if everything had gone perfectly.
66. 💵 Pre-revenue startup funding: valuations & venture capital
If you're thinking about raising funds for your startup, you might be asking what your company worth right now, the pre-money valuation? I'm going to pull back the curtain and explain to you how investors look at valuing your startup.