Here’s a list of articles that provide some context for founders trying to raise funding since the 2022 VC market correction.
- Pawel Maj: 300+ VC Questions for Startup Founders
- Chris Neumann: High-Velocity Fundraising
- Chris Neumann: Do your own fundraising research
- Chris Neumann: How to setup the perfect fundraising CRM
- Chris Neumann: Filling your fundraising funnel
- Crunchbase: How to find the right investors for your startup
- Failory: How To Make a Pitch Deck in 10 Easy Slides in 2024
- Failory: The Best 35 Startup Pitch Decks in 2024
- Jose Cayasso: The Complete Guide to a Pitch Presentation
- 50 Folds: Venture Capital Investment Memo Collection
- Failory: Investment Memos: How to Write a Perfect One in 2024
- Invigorate: The Investment Memo – How VCs Evaluate Your Business
- Vestbee: I’m a VC and here’s how I write my investment memos
- Visible.VC: Investment Memos: Tips, Templates, and How to Write One
- Streak: How to write a cold email to investors
- Finmark: How to Write Investor Emails That Get a Response
- Emin Aliyev: How to Write Perfect Cold Email to Investors
- Haje Jan Kamps: How to write the perfect cold email to investors
- A16z: A Framework for Navigating Down Markets
- Catapult VC: The Bull Case for Venture Capital in a coming Bear market
- CNBC: How startups are dealing with the hardest fundraising climate in more than a decade
- Crunchbase: The VC Reset: May 2022 Funding Falls Again, But Not At Every Stage
- David Sacks: The Burn Multiple - How Startups Should Think About Capital Efficiency
- Financial Times: Venture capital’s silent crash: when the tech boom met reality
- GeekWire: The great startup reset: Why founders should prepare for lower valuations
- Kruze Consulting: What Are Your VC’s Return Expectations…?
- John Luttig: Reversion to the mean: the real long COVID
- Pitchbook: Q2 2022 US VC Valuations Report
- Sequoia: RIP Good Times
- Sequoia: Adapting To Endure
- Techcrunch: YC advises founders to ‘plan for the worst’ amid market teardown
- Techcrunch: Need advice on navigating a tough startup market? Start here