{"id":1216,"date":"2011-01-14T17:23:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T16:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2011-01-14T17:23:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T16:23:24","slug":"get-vc-funding-for-your-startup-the-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/14\/get-vc-funding-for-your-startup-the-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Get VC funding for your startup: the process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most useful (and short) posts I&#8217;ve ever seen (*) on raising VC money. This post from Mark Suster encapsulates key things that every VC knows and feels is so obvious they wont even mention &#8230; But which new entrepreneurs have no way of knowing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothsidesofthetable.com\/2011\/01\/11\/going-to-raise-vc-heres-a-primer-on-process-people-deck\/\">http:\/\/www.bothsidesofthetable.com\/2011\/01\/11\/going-to-raise-vc-heres-a-primer-on-process-people-deck\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and if you&#8217;re raising money in europe (by which i mean &#8220;london&#8221;, in practice), i encourage you to benchmark your experience against this list.<\/p>\n<p>There are still, even today, plenty of so-called VC firms in London whose processes are opaque, elongated, archaic, or pointlessly troublesome. If your VC wont stick to this process demand to know why not &#8211; and ask yourself how much trouble it will cause you down the line?<\/p>\n<p>E.g. If your VC is a spinout from a London hedge fund, they may have an investment banking twist on process, that anyone from the city would recognize, but whose origins are in servicing a very different audience from entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>(*) &#8211; of course, im assuming you read <a href=\"http:\/\/venturehacks.com\">http:\/\/venturehacks.com<\/a> already. If not, youve got a lot of reading to do, and probably need to start again from scratch on your funding strategy :).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most useful (and short) posts I&#8217;ve ever seen (*) on raising VC money. This post from Mark Suster encapsulates key things that every VC knows and feels is so obvious they wont even mention &#8230; But which new entrepreneurs have no way of knowing: http:\/\/www.bothsidesofthetable.com\/2011\/01\/11\/going-to-raise-vc-heres-a-primer-on-process-people-deck\/ &#8230;and if you&#8217;re raising money in europe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}