Capital Raising Tips
What Investors Look For In Each Startup Stage
What investors are looking for in each stage of your startup: – Pre-seed You are selling a vision of what it could be instead of what you’ve already done. Focus on: Team experience, your secret sauce, a great pitch deck and market opportunity. – Seed What evidence do you already have that this will be […]
How To Use The Loss Aversion Principle In Your Capital Raise
The Loss aversion principle and how to use it in your capital raising strategy 👇 Why does this matter? Well, it turns out that people are often willing to take far greater risks to avoid losses than they are to make gains. So, you’ll be more successful if you frame it as a loss rather […]
Wholesale Investor’s Key Strategies In Raising Capital
Wholesale Investor uses some key strategies to raise capital. That you should be using too. Want them? Here they are 👇🏻 1) Have an intelligent deal room that gives you data insights. This will save you time and improve efficiency in the process. We use CRIISP – DM if you’d like to know more about […]
How To De-Risk Your Capital Raise
Founder: “I’m already in conversations with five investors, so I wanna see how that goes first before looking for other avenues.” ❌ ❌ Why this is a mistake and how to de-risk your raise: – Investors keep conversations going to build their pipeline, but it doesn’t mean they will invest in your company. Maybe they […]
The Capital Raising Funnel
Is there any strategy to overcome the problem of investors not wanting to come in as a first investor? Steve Torso answered in today’s webinar: There are three steps to the process (either for marketing, capital raising or customer acquisition): 1) Awareness 2) Consideration 3) Decision If you’re getting this response, it’s because you’re still […]
How To Find The Perfect Investor For Your Capital Raise
“I’m in conversations with VCs” Good! But does your startup fit their criteria? Typically VCs invest in 1-2% of companies they have initial conversations with. The 1% is more likely to be companies with: – Exponential growth metrics – Big market adoption – First in their sector – Well known management board If your company […]
Top 5 Sectors In Australia For Investing
FIVE sectors together got almost 50% of the 10B dollars invested in Australian companies in 2021. 😵 Here’s a breakdown: 1. FinTech $2.5B (25% of the total) 2. Enterprise/Business Software $970M (10% of the total) 3. PropTech/ RealTech/ Construction $683M (7% of the total) 4. MarTech/ EdTech/ SalesTech $672M (7% of the total) 5. BioTech/ […]
Why Is It Attractive To Invest In Australia’s Startups
There has never been a more exciting time to be an Australian startup founder, investor, or ecosystem participant. If you don’t believe it, let me show you some data: 1️⃣ Australian startups received more than $10 billion in funding in 2021 -3x more than 2020 2️⃣There were more $100M+ rounds in 2021 than in the […]
3 Steps Every Experienced Founder Knows On Raising Capital
There are 3 steps every experienced founder knows about raising capital… That first-time founders (normally) don’t. Want them? Here they are…👇🏻 Experienced founder: Is always communicating with investors. Inexperienced founder: Just talks to investors when need more money. Experienced founder: Has a clear plan and budget to raise capital. Inexperienced founder: Sends a cold e-mail […]