Passionate Social Entrepreneur, Co-Creator of Steady Growth Ventures, 3x Founder/CEO, Nonprofit President. Especially love helping with fundraising, pitching, go-to-market, and strategy.
From working on the leadership team at one angel investment fund and building another early-stage venture fund, as well as my lived experience as an entrepreneur, I will help you feel confident: - That you are getting a good deal on your term sheet - Knowing how to make a compelling pitch - That you are offering your investors an attractive deal - That you understand all deal terms for your round - That you are as safe as possible from getting fired by your investors - That your fundraising strategy is effective
From my lived experience as a 3x entrepreneur, I will help you devise a compelling go-to-market strategy that meets your budget and gets results
From my lived experience as an investor and 3x entrepreneur, I will give advice on management and leadership challenges and growth opportunities.
I will help you create financial models for your business
PitchBook is a comprehensive database of private companies and angel/VC/PE investors. College students at some universities, such as University of New Hampshire, have free access to PitchBook which normally costs $40K per seat. If you pay these students a low hourly rate ($15-$20/hour), they can obtain an investor list for your space for likely less than $100.
These days, ChatGPT is a good tool to find competitors so long as you are descriptive about what such a competitor does as their core business. I find that if ChatGPT gives me a list and they are all real competitors, there are likely more, so I simply ask ChatGPT to produce more until those competitors I find are not so relevant.
Another, more tedious way is to pretend to be a customer searching for such a service, whether you are on Google, social media, etc.
