Getting Game Ready for Customer and Investor Meetings | Dose 062

Preparing for VC or sales meetings? Here’s a founder checklist.
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Whether first meeting with investors or preparing for customer meetings, it’s essential to conduct background research on VC and prospect attendees. Know your audience, as they say. If you’re asking how to prepare for investor meetings, seeking tips on preparing for sales meeting pitches, or thinking about doing homework on investors and sales prospects, this one's for you! In this Dose, Mike Ravenscroft, Startup Success Manager at Dreamit Ventures, gives you the unfiltered low-down on key things to do before meeting an investor or potential customer. This video will help in preparing for early adopter meetings and answer the question: how do you research a VC? That’s how to really research your investors and prospects before asking them for money in a short 7-minute Dreamit Dose!
0:00 - Intro
0:43 - Why Background Research Matters
1:28 - Research the Person
2:39 - Research the Organization
4:26 - Make a Well Defined Ask
6:14 - Takeaways
6:59 - Outro

[@basedpatriotLT]

Can you do a video about investment rounds and how much equity you give out in each round (with typical examples/numbers). And what you can do to give out less equity - for example I could bootstrap a company through preseed rounds, would that save me a lot of equity in further rounds, or should I do preseed round as well.

[@lorenzn2365]

Great content as usual. When I think of our applicants, I would say some of them should see the video as well! ;)

[@lukehopper7847]

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