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The first thing an entrepreneur seeking funding should do is to have a full overview of the entire process, as noted in the answer to What is the process of raising a funding round of investment for a startup?To aid in getting all your ducks in a row, the education areas of Gust can be extremely helpful. Not only do you get a free copy of Bill Payne's book The Definitive Guide to Raising Money from Angels when you start working on your Gust site, but there are over 300 short video tips from many of the world's leading angel investors on a wide range of startup topics, and a world-class, curated blog (@Gustly) with regular columns from some of the smartest, most practical experts in the business.Once you start creating your Gust investor relations site, be sure to take full advantage of all the features it offers! For example, instead of the default background for the public-facing page of your site, either choose one of the other professionally-designed backgrounds from our library, or create and upload your own (as you might do with About.me). It doesn't have to be ornate and fancy, but it should be clean, professional, and relevant to your company. Take a look at Gust's own public page, at https://gust.com/c/gustcom:In addition to the background, note that we have taken the trouble to complete ALL the possible areas: we've entered our Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook handles, written full biographies for each of our team members, uploaded our logo, etc. We've also elected to put our short elevator pitch video on the public page. While this isn't required, you should DEFINITELY include a short elevator pitch video on your profile page. Many investors and groups require a video, and for virtually all it will be the first place they turn.Continue in this way through the rest of the site. Given the structure of Gust, it's virtually impossible to "over-share", but if your site is missing the one piece of information a particular investor is looking for (such as a video, or a summary of financials, or team biographies) you may find yourself out of the running before you even start.Every entrepreneur should spend serious time on the answers to the Summary questions on the next page. Unless you already have a carefully crafted business plan from which you are copying material, you simply won't be able to knock off these answers in five minutes. Instead, you are being asked here to distill down the essence of your company into strictly character-limited short answers. Those limits have been chosen for a reason, and result from years of asking sophisticated angels and VCs what they want to see. On the other hand, use the space you've been given! If you can't figure out how to come up with 450 characters (or whatever) of pithy, useful information in answer to each of those questions, then you are sending off the wrong signals to potential investors.(And let me interject here that it should go without saying that you should check, double check and then triple check your spelling, grammar and punctuation. Any mistakes here, when the investor knows that you've had ample opportunity to proofread your summary, can be devastating. Also, be aware that the answers you provide here will also serve as the basis for the 'one-pager' print out that many angel groups use during their screening/review sessions.)The Financials page is where the rubber meets the road, and the investors do a quick sanity check on your numbers. They're not looking for fifteen pages of detailed spreadsheets (at lead not at this stage), but they do want to know if you have a good idea of what "being fundable" looks like:Be absolutely sure you understand what each of these numbers mean...and if you're not sure, double check with an advisor. I am constantly surprised by founders who put down something like "Capital Seeking: $900,000 ; Pre-Money Valuation $100,000". I doubt they're aware that they are offering to give up 90% of their company to investors! And when it comes to the valuation question, my advice would be to leave this blank if you do not already have a term sheet in hand...otherwise this number tends to be both aspirational and a real problem if you get it wrong. (Note that in some cases, an investment group or fund will require a valuation number before they will accept your application. In that case, you have no choice, so take your best shot at it...but I'd suggest you aim a little lower than you are probably thinking.)Next up is the presentation, which is an absolute must-have:There are three possibilities here, all of which are great, so your choice should depend on what you have available to you (or are prepared to do). The presentation is the heart of the pitch, and will generally be viewed only after the investor has skimmed the meta-data (location, industry, summary) and the high-level financials (cash already in, size of raise, pre-money valuation, monthly burn, etc.) to be sure that he or she won't be wasting time. But if they've gotten this far, it generally means they're willing to invest a little more time (say, five or ten minutes, although it could conceivably be as much as fifteen; don't go any longer) to hear your full pitch.You can upload your slide deck, either in PowerPoint or PDF, format, and investors will be able to proceed through the slides at their own pace (note that PowerPoints will be automatically converted to PDFs, so don't use transitions, builds or fancy effects). Alternatively, you can upload a video instead, which would usually be a 5-15 minute version of you standing up in front of a group and going through your pitch. Just make sure that the video shows both you and the slides clearly, and is correctly exposed and professionally filmed. You do NOT want to seem like an amateur. The third possibility is really cool, and is unique to Gust: you can chose to upload your slide deck, and then run through your slides from within Gust while filming yourself with your webcam, and then finally use Gust to synchronize the two, while advancing the slides and zooming back and forth between your video and your slides.Finally, in the Documents area, you can upload whatever documents you have that provide support for your proposition. Some investors might want to read everything, while others will cherry pick, but this is where you can put your business plan, sales presentations and marketing brochures, detailed financials, and more.With you're finished, make sure you proof read everything (and try having someone else proof it as well. I continue to be amazed by the number of submissions I see that are rife with spelling and grammatical mistakes.) Now, you're ready to share your materials with investors. Once again you have two choices, although they are certainly not mutually exclusive; indeed, I would suggest you do both: First, reach out to any angel investor (or potential angel) you already know. This done by clicking the Share button under "Invite Investors that you Know" on the Share and Manage tab in the upper right corner. This will bring up a dialog asking you for the name and email address of the potential investor, along with a draft cover letter for you to send:The draft is actually pretty good (hey, I wrote it :-), and automatically includes the short description of your company. If you prefer your own words, however, go ahead and replace it with whatever you want; just remember that shorter and punchier works better than long screeds about how wonderful your company is.The other way to share your material with investors is by searching for an organized group (such as an angel group, venture fund, business plan competition, entrepreneurship support program, etc.) using the "Find Investors on Gust" link. This will take you the Investor Search Engine, where you can search by keyword, namer location:You can also use the drop-down filters across the top to restrict your search by the type of organization (VC, angel, competition, etc.), which trade organization they belong to (helpful as a validation check, for example, to see if a US angel group is a member of the Angel Capital Association, which sets professional standards), what regions they invest in (it's not useful to apply to a US-based angel group that doesn't invest internationally, if you're coming from Belarus, for example), and by what industries they invest in (this is a multiple selection, in case your venture can fall into a few different categories):Once you've found a group that looks as though it might make sense for your particular venture, be sure to click on the link and bring up the full profile page for that investment organization:This page, in many cases, is chock full of really good data, and you should absolutely, positively read everything on it. Groups will let you know here, in their own words, exactly what they're looking for, so that you don't end up wasting either your or their time. You will also (if the group has chosen to allow it) see live data on the group's operations, such as how long it typically takes them to get to a first look at your materials, how much they've actually invested over the past year, what percentage of opportunities they've funded, etc.Finally, if you are logged into LinkedIn when you view this page, in many cases it will show you in the upper right corner links to members of the group to whom you can get a personal introduction through your network. This is the best way to reach out to a group, and if you can get someone to introduce you, it will almost always be better than going in cold.Once you've found a group, read their profile, and ensured that YOUR profile is complete, you can apply to them by simply choosing to Share access to your site with them. This will bring up an overview page where you can read any special instructions they might have provided, see what you will be sharing, and find any additional questions or documents the group may want you to submit:Click "Submit Application", and voila, you're on your way to consideration through the screening process of this group, fund or competition.This post is already longer than the epic Gilgamesh, so we will leave our heroe at this point, having shared your application with a potential funder. In a follow-up post, I will try to continue with tips that might be helpful as you go through the post-application process. Good luck!

I’m going to get rid of the ‘it depends’ stuff and deal with my averages.One of my companies is Perfect Pitch Deck. I’ve written over 100 decks from scratch in the past year personally, so I’m pretty intimate on this topic. I’ve also seen maybe 8000 pitch decks over the years and have the largest collection of pitch decks on the internet.File sizeIn the perfect world, I would like 3mb. These days that’s hard.In reality, this trends more to 5–8mb.If I see 8mb or more, then there is a problem.I get worried because there are email deliverability issues. I’m a nerd but I don’t learn this crap off by heart, but at 10/20mb some servers are like ‘feck this shite’.Computer says no.Attachment limits:Some email servers may have smaller limits, but 10MB is generally the standard. Gmail allows you to attach up to 25MB to a single email, but this is only guaranteed to work if you're emailing other Gmail users. As soon as the email leaves Gmail's servers, it could be rejected by another email server.You have to think about deliverability.I’m often in a pub and I want to show a deck to an investor.Do you know how much I love waiting and the data cost of your 20mb ass file?Not at all.Messed upIf you have a file size of about 20mb, you messed up totally on image compression before you added images.It’s always images.If you use Envato or Pixabay, their images are way bloated.Compression tipsThere are many ways to do this, but this is what works for me (I do this 50x a day).I use a web app called https://tinypng.com. I hate that I have to keep uploading, but it does better than Caesium on my PC for example.I think of images like safe sex. I run through tinypng before I let any image in a deck I do.If the image is some crazy 4k size image I will resize in Caesium (but only if is material).Most decks shouldn’t be more than 24 slides. And generally there will be maybe 8 images max, so if something is near 1mb that’s when I get military.File sendersNever use file sender programme like wetransfer.It’s just not pro.The VC doesn’t want to use it.Reduce friction.If you have to use one, you are a douche.Just sort your images.Doc sharing programmesI’ve written a blog on this but I’ve done so many I lose track.I’m very two minded about these still-.Pro: You get stats. You know who reads (but you can type [email protected] as I always do). You can see if people reread and for how long. It’s ‘asset light’ in an email as the page load is in the link so you get deliverabilityCon: It’s annoying. As a VC, a PDF in my email is just easier. I do not want to enter my fricking email. If I share your deck, more than likely you are luckyI haven’t quite decided where I fall on it. I generally recommend DocSend to founders.Russ Heddleston can chime in and am sure he has more stats than my in-person experience.Never use PPT/KEYNOTEAlways convert to PDF and normally in the compressed format.Never send your original file.You have your lame ass notes in the comments, people can mess about with the file, bla bla.Only share your PPT file if an associate asks after you have signed a term sheet and is going for Monday morning approval. He has work to do to help you (internal presentation), so make his life easier.Keynote hackI should make a video on this.If you are on Mac, you can convert the file into a package.Then get a file compressor to go bad boyz on your images with the same target folder.You can then convert back to a single file and boom, images compressed.I figured this out so it’s not a public hack. I can’t find a way to do in PPT on PCIf you want to know the docs you need to raise, check out:The fundraising documents you need to pitch venture capitalistsIf you like the content, I have a quick and easy ask: Like, follow and share! Appreciate you

I don’t know your branch of education. I will share some of the basic rules for any preparation.LEARN THE SYLLABUS : This is the most important step. Before plunging into the ocean of topics, you need to know which route to choose to make your journey optimal and success. If you know the syllabus on tips half of the work is done. This will provide you necessary boost and sense of urgency in a meaningful way. No doubt the success will depend upon your understanding of the topic and the repeated practice of the previous year questions, but IF you have learnt the syllabus it will help you to stay SYSTEMATIC all the time through out your preparation. Not only it will lower your mental pressure but also guide you through your preparation.Understand the MARKS DISTRIBUTION of each subject: After you done learning the syllabus , understand the marks distribution that each topic carries of subject. To make preparation more effective, DO THIS RESEARCH OWN YOUR OWN, it will not take more than 1 day. Just take printouts or PDF of previous year question paper analyze yourself. (If possible segregate the questions in a notebook subject wise). It will give you benefit in terms that you can understand the structure of questions coming. You will also understand the pattern of the question paper.OPEN BOOK QUESTION SOLVING - start solving the solved question at the back of each chapter with open book style (follow the steps in the book). SOLVE the question until you can solve them orally/in mind. THIS IS KNOWN AS PREPARING FOR PRACTICE. Now try on the unsolved and if you did it properly you will understand the pattern of problem solving yourself and with practice, solving will come naturally to you. You can solve the previous year questions.Notes - If you have already notes with you, start revising them. While revising try to minimize the notes in terms of pages while revising. The more you will keep revising the notes will convert into SHORT NOTES. Before exam these will help. YOU might be able to write the whole subject chapters in one A4 sheet before the last few days of exam. At this level all you need is to remember hints, connecting the dots will come naturally to you.Revision - do the revision all the time. Solve the questions and read the theory part again and again until you get good at them. The another very effective way is discussing topic in a group or with friends. Revising while commuting, bathing, eating.ART OF LEAVING : Think practically, studying everything is not possible. you need to have a selective approach. Target your score that you have to achieve in the exam first which can be 70+ or more . Prepare yourself in a way that if you are not able to complete the syllabus in time then you can have a buffer zone in which you can throw those topics which you feel not comfortable with.If you are sitting on the chair and solving questions without looking at clock, and you know how much syllabus it will contribute in completing and the importance of the questions you are solving from exam prospective. This kind of STRESS is necessary here. This is know as real sense of urgency.When you have short time with you and you have a large workload then WHAT DO ENGINEERS DO ?THEY OPTIMIZE.AMRINDER SINGHwww.mindvis.in