trw-startup-resources

📚 TRW Fundraising Resources for Founders

Hello there! 👋

This collection is dedicated to assisting startup founders in their fundraising endeavors. These materials are shared weekly through the ☕ Tech Readings of the Week newsletter on LinkedIn.

The repository will be regularly updated with new content from future newsletter issues.

If you have valuable contributions, please don’t hesitate to get involved. You can send a pull request, or if you’re not familiar with GitHub, feel free to reach out to me via DM on LinkedIn or X.

Let’s collaborate and share knowledge! 🚀

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Index

• 👩‍🏫 Courses
• 📚 Books
• 💬 Terminology
• 📢 Marketing
• 🖥️ Deck
• 🔍 Due Diligence
• 💸 Valuation
• 🖋️ Legal docs
• ⏳ Convertibles
• 🤑 Stock Options
• 📫 Investor Relations
• 🦄 VCs
• ⛔ Mistakes

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Courses

• Y Combinator Startup School (Y Combinator)
• Techstars Fundraising Series (Techstars)
• Venture Deals Fall 2023 (Techstars)
• Founder University 12-Week Course (Founder University)
• The Pmarca Guide to Startups (Marc Andreesen)
• How to Raise Your First Round of Funding (The Founder Institute)
• Venture Hacks, advice for startups (Venture Hacks)
• Raise millions for your startup (Hustle Fund)

Books

• The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future (Sebastian Mallaby)
• Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It (Scott Kupor)

Terminology

• VC Glossary (CB Insights)
• VC Terminology: Top 100 Terms Aspiring Angel Investors Should Know (Hustle Fund)
• What do the terms on your termsheet actually mean? (Sifted)
• MOIC? QP? TVPI? VC terms you need to know (Signature Block)

Marketing

• building investor signals for a pre-seed startup (Project Arrow)
• How to attract early-stage angel investors (Sifted)
• The 16 Commandments of Raising Equity in a Challenging Market (a16z)

Deck

• How to build your seed round pitch deck (Y Combinator)
• How to build a great Series A pitch and deck (Y Combinator)
• How to Pitch Your Startup (Y Combinator)
• How to build a startup pitch deck (OpenVC)
• 1000+ Pitch Deck Examples From the Most Successful Startups (PitchDeckHunt)

Due Diligence

• The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics (Andrew Chen)
• Due diligence in VC — how it works (Sifted)
• How to do investor due diligence (Sifted)

Valuation

• A guide to startup valuation (Hustle Fund)
• Some data from Loom $975M acquisition (Phil Haslett)
• How to value your startup (OpenVC)
• Explain SAFEs and dilution to me like I’m 5 (Hustle Fund)

Legal docs

• Y Combinator SAFE (Y Combinator)
• Italian SAFE (Italian Tech Alliance)
• Italian termsheet Series A (Italian Tech Alliance)
• Term Sheet (GoingVC)

Convertibles

• How do convertible notes work - Infographic (Equidam)
• What to expect when you’re expecting (dilution) (Saas.wtf)

Stock Options

• A guide to stock options for European entrepreneurs (Index Ventures)
• Paul Graham on early employee and equity (Paul Graham)
• A cheatsheet for giving out equity to advisors (Carta)

Investor relations

• How can founders get value from their VCs? (The Generalist)
• 10 Tips to Make Your VCs Calmer, Happier, and on your side (SaaStr)
• How Founders Can Manage Investor Relations During A Recession (Crunchbase)
• Investor updates 101: everything you need to know (Sifted)
• The Business of Annual Letters (Capital Gains)

VCs

• Questions early stage VCs may ask you (Hustle Fund)
• VC Investor Ranking (Dealroom)
• A crash course on Venture Capital from an ex-investor at a $100 billion fund (Entrepreneurs Handbook)
• The VC jobs hierarchy (Sifted)
• Approaching venture capital with intention (Podcast) (Interplay)
• How to get a meeting with an investor (Hustle Fund)
• Inside the minds of European VCs (Speedinvest)

Mistakes

• Fundraising mistakes founders make (Sam Altman)
• When your cap table makes your startup uninvestable (TechCrunch)