building the right relationship with your investor

by Max Gurvits

Building the Right Relationship With Your

Investor

@MxGur

Why Do You Want to Pitch?

Investors are needed for FAST growth

Rule no. 1: Capital is PASSIVE

Rule no. 2: Unlike professional $$, VC $$ is not a product but TOOL

Main steps

5

Step 1: Map your fundraising social graph and talk to ALL in your vertical

Step 2: Build relationships

Step 3: Practice Perfect Pitch

First pitch

Second pitch

Step 4: Have your docs ready

Step 5: CLOSE

How to structure the best pitch deck?

Big Idea and One-Sentence Summary

Who is the Customer What is the Problem

Your Solution

Explaining The Business

Traction and Validation

Metrics!

How it works

The Team

The Future

The Ask

Four things to remember about investors

No. 1: Investors invest in execution

No. 2: Interested in Team, Market, Traction

No. 3: Investors are middlemen

No. 4: In VC it’s all about

So, what you should do before pitching…

Study the investor

Talk to all of his investments

If you can, talk also to their investor

Ask for advice

Use readable slides!

NEVER Forget To Follow Up

How about ideas?

max@cccstartups.com

@MxGur @CCCStartups

Thank you! Max Gurvits CCC Startups