Resources

Investor Readiness 

Start here:

• Industry Leading Insights and Perspectives

  • What VCs Look For

  • VC Funding: What You May Give Up Other Than Equity

• Startup Atlanta's Ecosystem Guide

• Why VCs get excited about Atlanta

• How Dilution Affects Early Stage Startups

• Top 20 Reasons Startups Fail

• DON'T Do These 68 Things in your SaaS Companey

Venture Debt

• How Venture Debt Works

• Venture Debt: A Capital Idea for Startups

• Extend Your Startup’s Runway with Venture Debt

• The Role of Venture Debt in a Booming Tech Market

Example Documents & Tools:

• 50 Best Pitch Decks That Investors Are Talking About

• Canaan Entrepreneur Pitch Workbook

• 1 Page Executive Summary Template

• Investor Readiness Roadmap Checklist

• 4 Great Due Diligence Prep Documents

• The Startup Founder's Guide to Fundraising

• The Startup Founder's Roadmap to Funding Rounds

• Investment Simulation Tool

• Investment Simulation Tool 2

• Model Legal Documents

• FREE Documents & Tools from the DLA Piper Accelerate Program

• Investor vs. Company Annotated Term Sheet

• Explanatory Term Sheet

• SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) by Y Combinator

• KISS (Keep it Simple Security) by 500 Startups

• Comparing SAFE v KISS

Watch + Read + Listen

Industry Rags:

• Pitchbook

• CBInsights

• Chrunchbase

• Mattermark

Podcasts:

• This Week in Startups

• The 20 Minute VC

• Anything by HowStuffWorks and Gimlet Media (faves: Daily Zeitgeist and Reply All)

Books:

• Venture Deals

• Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups

• Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money & Having Fun Investing in Startups

• Founders Dilemma

• Crossing the Chasm

• Startup Communities

• Stealing Fire

• Sapiens