A startup founder’s ultimate success is dependent on others buying into his or her vision. This guide brings you a structured process to build several different kinds of pitches: Elevator Pitch, One-Minute Pitch, a Simple Pitch Deck, and Long Pitch Deck.
In order to build a strong venture capital firm as a first-time fund manager, you need to create a strong Investment Thesis that clearly states your fund size, stage, focus, and geography. To help you get started, here is a simple fill-in-the-blank template.
Since 2009, we have seen thousands of investor updates - great updates, terrible updates, and the most common: no updates at all. This frustrates us to no end, because writing an outstanding update is simple. To help, we created this simple 5-Minute template.
VC Lab (http://fi.co/vc), by the Founder Institute, is a free virtual program that helps new managers to launch accelerators, pre-seed, seed or Series A venture capital firms globally. The goal is to help you complete your first closing in one year or less.
VC Lab is a new accelerator for VC firms, and in this step-by-step guide we show you how to complete the first major step in building a new fund: creating your investment thesis. This includes determining your VC (1) fund size, (2) focus, (3) UVP, and more.
According to CB Insights, only 1% of VC-backed tech companies are founded by Black Americans. To help empower Black Americans to build great startups, we have collected a list of over 700 organizations, entrepreneurs, and investors ready to help.
Launch, grow, and scale like never before with Founder Institute's most significant curriculum update yet. Take advantage of AI-powered tools, feedback at scale, and specialized tracks.
Today our society faces unprecedented challenges. We are calling upon members of the innovation community to commit to build impact companies, with a simple definition of an "impact company" and actionable/ measurable iKPIs (Impact Key Performance Indicators")
