VCs don't spend most of their time hearing startup pitches.
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25%-30%/ 1.5 days a week. That’s the amount of time that a VC spends on listening to pitches and evaluating start-ups.
So where do they?
Pradyumna Nag
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How do early-stage VCs value startups? DCF is not the right answer.
Every so often, founders ask us a question – How do VCs value us at such an early stage, especially in Silicon Valley? | DCF at an early...
Prequate
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TFTF | Dec 15, 2020
TFTF, Thought leadership we loved this fortnight | Dec 15, 2020
Prequate
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The rationale behind the Ivy League & Venture Capital Funding knot
It’s no secret that Early-stage VCs invest in the team & not just the idea. | For 53% of VCs it is the single most important factor. |...
Pradyumna Nag
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How to make pricing negotiations in COVID recovery period your friend
Pricing is a complex matter – especially in services. | The complexity has further increased due to COVID. But should you change your...
Pradyumna Nag
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Can math make you $7.5B richer?
Can the power of math win you 21 Academy Awards & 9 Golden Globes?
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How about grossing $15B in the box office? Or help you to be worth $7B?
Pradyumna Nag
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What WWE teaches us, can help us have better portfolios
WWE was massive.
If you were an 80s or 90s kid, you breathed WWF/ WWE.
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Know anyone that still watches it? No? How are they still around?
Karan Kumar
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Step 6: Designing the right Ask
Seek Capital, of course!
Obviously right?
As start-ups one of the key asks from investors is capital. Better yet... Seek a partner.
Prasiddhi Saraogi
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The invisible thread behind France & Fashion
Christian Dior. Louis Vuitton. Yves Saint Laurent.
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What do they have in common?
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High-end Fashion? Paris?
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Well, both.
Karan Kumar
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Step 5: Getting the math right
FINANCIAL MODEL
Your idea, your model, and your strategy should be backed by measurable targets that you want to achieve in the next 5 years
Karan Kumar
- 2 min
Step 4: Going to market
Now that you have explained your idea and how it is scalable, you would now be required to throw light on how you are going to execute it.
Pradyumna Nag
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Anti-trust. Platforms. Amex.
“American Express is not a credit card company.”
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So, what really is Amex then?
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Amex is a platform that bridges 2 separate markets.
Pradyumna Nag
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Professionals & the Gig Economy
We always wondered how the gig economy was going to shake up our lives as a finance professional. Knowing how it transformed most other jobs
Karan Kumar
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Step 3: Modeling the future
Your investor can now relate to the problem and how you are solving it.
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Good progress.
Now the hardest part begins. Monetizing.
Karan Kumar
- 2 min
Step 2: Getting a valued Proposition
Now that we have educated the investor about the problem and opportunity it has created. | They are ready to invest the next 15-20 min to...
Pradyumna Nag
- 1 min
When not to hire us
This is something we have heard from founders way too often – “No one knows my business better than I do”.
To be honest, we agree. But...
Karan Kumar
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Step 1: Master the hook
Every successful startup founder's journey begins with some variation of this:
There is an observed problem.
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It needed to be solved that
Karan Kumar
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Learning that the secret to great deals is solid storytelling
It has been almost 2 years working for Prequate Advisory and what I realized is that working in the management consulting industry gives you
Prequate
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TFTF | Nov 30, 2020
TFTF, Thought leadership we loved this fortnight | Nov 30, 2020
Karan Kumar
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The emerging war for start-up supremacy between India & China
The emerging war for start-up supremacy between India & China in South East Asia can be seen by studying relatively the startup eco-systems.
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