Geometry Venture Development | Angel Investment Fund

🥳Presentation Example at the Pitch Challenge: Geometry Venture Development | Angel Investment Fund Pitch Challenge 26 Ekim'de İş Bankası Kuleleri, Levent'te Pitch Challenge | Go to Market Event for Startups | 2 Dakikalık Startup Sunum Yarışması 26 Ekim Perşembe, 09.30 – 12.30 İstanbul Girişimcilik Şubesi | İş Bankası Kuleleri, Levent Gerçekleşen her sunum sonunda jüri üyeleri tüm katılımcılara açık şekilde girişimlere 7 ile 10 arasında puan verecek ve soru cevap için ayrıca bir süre ayrılmayacak olup finale kalan girişimlerin sunumları tekrar dinlenildikten sonra kazanan girişim Pitch Challenge’ın şampiyonu olacaktır. Ücretsiz Davetiye Formu: https://lnkd.in/gyvuE8NQ Pitch Challenge’da Sunum Gerçekleştirmek İsteyen Girişimler İçin Başvuru Formu: https://lnkd.in/guavrbmU #pitch #presentation #deck

🎯 How Venture Capitalists Decide on the First Meeting: 12 Reasons ✅ 1. Team – How do we know your team is great? - VCs prioritize the founding team, look for track records and the ability to learn quickly. Demonstrating experience, commitment, and unique skills within your team is crucial. ✅ 2. Company – Describe in one sentence what your company does. - A short, interesting and emotional one-liner that reflects the essence of your company is very important. It should attract investors' attention and make them want to learn more. ✅ 3. Market – What is the market opportunity and why will it be big? - Clearly define the market opportunity, focusing on how you plan to expand or create a new market. Highlight recent changes or trends that make now the right time for your business. ✅ 4. Business model – How do you make money? Who pays? What are the margins? - Simplify how your company makes money, who the customers are, and your pricing strategy. Be honest about the knowns and unknowns and demonstrate your understanding of future unit economics. ✅ 5. Geography – Where is the team located? - Specify the location of your team, as some venture capitalists prefer local investments. Specify whether your team is dispersed or centralized; This can impact cost and talent acquisition. ✅ 6. Number of Employees – How big is your team? - Include the number of full-time and part-time employees to give investors an idea of your company's stage, monthly expenses, and operational sophistication. ✅ 7. Timing – Why is now the right time for your company? - Explain why your startup is relevant now, taking into account economic, technological and cultural factors. Show why your idea is timely and likely to succeed today. ✅ 8. Traction – What are the traction metrics that show what you have achieved so far? - Share relevant metrics that show growth, user love, and self-sustainable growth. Qualitative metrics can support early-stage startups that lack quantitative data. ✅ 9. Fundraising – How much do you want to raise? - Specify the amount you aim to raise, detailing how you will allocate the funds. Match your goal to the investor's typical investment range and be prepared to justify the amount. ✅ 10. Fundraising History – From whom, how much, and when did you raise funds? - Provide details of previous funding rounds, including investors and amounts raised. This helps VCs evaluate your social proof, execution speed, and past use of funds. ✅ 11. Fit – What is it about this investor (or firm) that makes you interested in meeting with them? - Research and explain why a particular investor is suitable for your startup; Highlight this investor's relevant skills, knowledge, and passion for your market. ✅ 12. Referrer – Who introduced you to VC? - The quality of the referrer can significantly affect your chances of meeting. Build relationships with people VCs trust and make sure they convey the key points about your startup.

⭐ The most spectacular startup failures result when people were in a startup situation but failed to recognize it, or failed to recognize what it meant for their behavior. 🔎 This definition is also important for what it excludes. Notice that it says nothing about the size of the company involved. Big companies often fail because they find themselves in a startup situation but are unable to reorient in time to cope with this situation.

🌟 If you think of ideas that simultaneously meet people's functional needs and emotional needs, while sitting in a big market and making use of a breakthrough user interface, that’s a recipe for a really good company. 🌟 The functional part is usually more obvious, but the emotional component can be tricky. Your customers generally can't or won't name it themselves. You have to probe on what they feel and translate what they’re saying into a product. After 15 years as a Product Leader, CEO and Now VC, Here's the Advice I Always Share With Future Founders by First Round Capital

🌟 Composable software is not the easiest product to build. It takes large upfront investment in infrastructure. It also requires customers take a leap to switch from purpose-built software to a more generalized platform they must configure themselves. But if successful, there are opportunities to build massive companies in these spaces. In addition to consolidating spend that was previously spread across multiple software platforms, composable software (+ LLM automation) can create massive new efficiencies for businesses. And like SAP or Salesforce, these systems will be extremely sticky once broadly implemented. 🎯 These dynamics are very well suited for a land and expand approach. Companies can start by selling a specific use case, expand to adjacent applications, and eventually build a suite strategy that allows them to capture value from multiple functions.

A “build it and they will come” approach skips over work that’s essential for any startup. Distilling your brand strategy, sharpening your value prop, listening to your target customer on why they are hiring you, and then clarifying how you’ll communicate all of that back to your customer is foundational — not optional. Great Startups Deserve Great Brands — Build a Strong Foundation by Avoiding These Mistakes by First Round Capital

Portfolio value creation: ▪ We got involved with portfolio company A at this point in time and conducted X activities aimed at lifting Y metrics. You can see a clear trend line in top-line revenue and margin expansion that increased enterprise value to Z on the intended timeline. (Thras.io does an incredible job with similar storytelling) ▪ When we buy a company with X percentage of the Total Addressable Market (TAM) and Y in existing sales pipeline, with a concentration of competitors that looks like Z, we can expect 30% growth in top-line revenue over the first six months of owning that asset.

One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was that when you're starting a company, you often think you're picking an idea, but you're really picking a customer. It's actually pretty easy to change your idea, but it’s way harder to change the customer you're serving. Material Security’s Path to Product-Market Fit — Find Your Winning Idea by Selling Products That Don’t Exist Yet by First Round Capital

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🛎️YARIN 🛎️ Geometry Venture Development | Angel Investment Fund olarak paydaşı olduğumuz Avrupa Birliği ve Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ortak finansmanıyla yürütülen Eskişehir Teknik Üniversitesi Prototip Merkezi tarafından düzenlenecek 'StartEs Demo Day' 16 Mayıs Perşembe günü saat 09.30'da İş Kule, İş Bankası Girişimcilik Şubesi'nde! İlgili tüm girişimcilik ekosistemi paydaşlarını bekliyoruz! 🎉   ⏯️ StartEs Demo Day 15 Girişim, 20'den fazla Yatırımcı ❗️ 🛎️ 16 Mayıs Perşembe, 09.30 – 12.30 📍 İş Bankası Kuleleri, Levent | İş Bankası İstanbul Girişimcilik Şubesi   🖇️ Ücretsiz Davetiye Formu: https://lnkd.in/dhkDWVRU