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Venture Capital (VC) Pitch Due Diligence Qs | Sramana Mitra
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Venture Capital (VC) Pitch Due Diligence Qs | Sramana Mitra

Learn How to Develop Your Startup Strategy and Pitch Before Going to Angel and Venture Capital (VC) Investors
Created bySramana Mitra
Last updated 2/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Through real-life pitches and dialogues, learn what investors want to see in a pitch.
  • Learn what goes on in an investor's mind when they are reviewing a startup pitch.
  • Why 99% of startups fail to get funding from Angels and VCs no matter how hard they try.
  • How to analyze your own startup with an investor hat on.
  • What the difference is between successful and unsuccessful startup pitches.
  • How to increase your chances of getting funded by Angel Investors and VCs.
  • What the most common mistakes are that startups looking for funding make.
  • How to go to investors as King, not as beggars.

Course content

3 sections • 13 lectures • 2h 49m total length

  • Introduction1:41

    The toughest round of funding an entrepreneur seeks to raise is pre-seed investment. It sports the lowest probability of success, the highest amount of ambiguity, is poorly defined, and is causing the greatest amount of confusion and road wreck out there. Please read the article, 9 Udemy Courses on How to Raise Pre-seed Startup Funding, that I have shared as an external resource.

  • Due Diligence Questions For Startups3:13
  • What Does An Investor Checklist For Startup Due Diligence Include?0:41

    Shared as an external resource are the self-assessment questions that can help you identify the gaps in your business-building process. These are the questions investors will ask you during your pitch, and what you need to ask yourselves. To improve your probability of success, please be sure to answer these strategic planning questions convincingly. To validate a business idea, as well, these are the questions that need compelling answers.

  • Investor - Entrepreneur Fit10:36
  • What Is Your Advice For Entrepreneurs Repeatedly Rejected By VCs?1:05

Requirements

  • The only requirement for this course is an open mind and a willingness to learn.

Description

Let me start with a quote from Marc Andreessen:

“At our venture capital firm we only invest in a sort of Silicon Valley–style tech. We see 3,000 inbound deals a year. And those are inbound and coming through our referral network, so those are sort of prequalified. We can do maybe 15 or 20 investments out of the 3,000 a year. So I like to say our day job is crushing entrepreneurs’ hopes and dreams. Our main skill is saying no, and getting people to not hate us.”
Source: Inside the mind of Marc Andreessen – Fortune Magazine

It pains me to see how many entrepreneurs have no idea what makes a startup fundable. Over 99% of the entrepreneurs who seek financing are rejected.

If you get rejected by Accelerators, Angels or VCs, and they don’t tell you why, you need to understand the objections and the analysis that led them to their decision. Most good investors take the time to explain. Also, there are some fairly standard reasons why entrepreneurs get rejected by investors.

So, my humble advice to all entrepreneurs: please learn to assess your own probability of getting funded. This course is a very good start if you need a crash course in fundability.

This is also an excellent preparatory tool for building your investor pitch.

In the course, you will find sample pitches with feedback sessions.

The 1Mby1M courses are all heavily based on interview-based case studies on Innovation, Business Models, Go To Market Strategies, Validation Principles, and various other nuances of an entrepreneur's journey. We offer extensive opportunities for entrepreneurs to learn the lessons from the trenches from successful entrepreneurs who have done it before and Investors who support their ambition.

Who this course is for:

  • Ambitious entrepreneurs who want to build startups right, without wasting a lot of time on pitching random investors for funding before they have a fundable business.
  • Engineers who want to turn their tech knowledge into multi-million dollar revenue businesses by becoming startup founders rather than remain employees.
  • Entrepreneurs who want to understand what a fundable business is.
  • Aspiring founders who want to increase their chances of getting accepted into a top startup accelerator such as Y Combinator, Techstars, and 500 Startups, because they would need a fundable business before being accepted into any of them. These Accelerators are not interested in non-fundable business ideas.
  • Any entrepreneur who wants to learn from successful entrepreneurs who have done it before and from investors who have supported them
  • Professors teaching technology entrepreneurship courses anywhere in the world.

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