In: Entrepreneurship / 21 comments
17 Jan 2014“If you are interested, please call at your convenience…” This is how 90% of all the emails through which young entrepreneurs are trying to get financing from GECAD. Wrong.
In: Books, Entrepreneurship / 2 comments
13 Nov 2013A few days ago I stumbled upon this material: http://reidhoffman.org/linkedin-pitch-to-greylock/. Although it’s a about a pitch in 2004 – it’s LinkedIn’s real pitch deck in 2004 for Round B investment – or maybe just because of that :-), it makes a very interesting read. It is commented and contextualized, with dos and don’ts.
In: Entrepreneurship / 11 comments
19 Apr 20131000. We’re talking here about the seed investment (the first money in the company). Whenever I had to raise an investment, to find investors for my ideas, I was amazed by the inability of those I talked to, to understand the huge opportunity I, in my greatness and benevolence, brought to their attention. I always […]
In: Entrepreneurship / 7 comments
29 Nov 2011I have seen many presentations lately from companies that are seeking investment. I think a good template for a presentation would help a lot.
In: Entrepreneurship / 22 comments
12 Oct 2011I announced a week ago that GECAD was going to invest 50,000 Euro at every VentureConnect event in the next 3 years. 300,000 Euro in total. I received many questions and I would like to provide some clarifications.