A handful of links for early-startups considering seeking angel or VC funding. I originally put this together for Qworky in August 2009 so the links are at this point very dated but it’s still interesting to see.
- Perfecting your pitch and Writing a compelling executive summary, Garage Technology Ventures
- Alliance of Angels’ Think like an angel presentation has an outline of a 10-minute pitch and highlights specific areas to concentrate on
- How to present to investors, Paul Graham
- Angelsoft has a directory of angel groups, and example executive summaries of funded companies including HitFix, LiquidPlanner, GoalTribe, Tikatok. There’s more background on Angelsoft in this blog post by their CEO.
- TheFunded has reviews of various VCs and angel groups
- Angel funding for women and minorities — good advice for all of us!
- Typical ranges for post-series A stock option grants and a 2008 Startup executive compensation survey
- A few blog posts and articles on the funding process:
- Paul Graham of Y Combinator on Startup Funding
- Mark Suster’s Angel funding advice and discussion of pricing an angel round vs. convertible equity
- Angel Investors Become Less Available and In Pitching to Angel Investors, Preparation Outweighs Zeal, from the New York Times
- The Lowdown on Angel Capital from CommonAngels’ James Geshwiler, and an accompanying presentation