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What does the perfect pitch deck look like? Well, we built it. We took the absolute best slides, we put the together, and we created a deck that no investor could pass - ever.

In this article, I want to walk through how investor outreach actually fits inside a fundraising strategy. When cold outreach works, when it doesn't, and how to build a process that maximizes your odds of landing investor meetings.

Many founders ignore how VCs make money. In my opinion, that's a mistake. Today, we're fixing this situation! In this post, you will learn how VC firms actually make money - including some of their dirty tricks - and what it means for you as a founder.

Learn how to find the right angel investors to fund your startup.

This article aims to help understand everything you need to know about the seed stage: are you ready for seed, who invests at seed, and how to get seed funding..

Warm intros are the cornerstone of today's fundraising, for better and for worse. So how do you get one intro? Or even 100? This post will tell you everything you need about warm intros to VCs.

We went through 500+ VC horror stories and compiled the best ones for your masochistic pleasure.

Isabelle Johannessen leads Startup Battlefield, TechCrunch’s competition for the world’s most promising early-stage startups. She breaks down what it takes for founders to win the competition, get exposure to 1,000 investors, and pocket the grand prize of $100,000.