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Clarity

Shishir Gupta

San Francisco, CA

I have helped more than 500 startups worldwide.

#Founded first startup in year 2001 - 18 years of business experience.
#CEO of leading Startup Consulting Firm,
# Investment Banker - Angel Investment, A Series for startups.
# Startup Lawyer - Corporate legal matters.
#Full Stack Developer - Software Architecture Web/App
# Experience of AngelList - Connected to Angel Investors/VCs worldwide
# Mentor, Advisor & Consultant for Startups
# Author of Startup Easy - A Practical Guide | Buy here: http://amzn.to/2xDGZs6

Featured on CNBC Young Turks, TiE the Knot, Startup Weekend & Startup Grind.

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Pitch Deck Advisory: Get a Perfect Pitch Deck

Get the perfect perfect Pitch Deck. It is the most important document that you present to Investors. Your pitch deck needs to stand out, investors are busy, the average time spent on rejecting a pitch deck is 29 seconds. Having a right pitch deck can increase your chances of raising funds by 79%. On the other hand, a wrong pitch deck may lead to rejection despite of a great business model, traction and growth. I can advise you on your existing deck and also for creating a completely new one.

Legal Consulting for Startups

Consult me about Co-Founder's Agreement (CFA), Share Holder's Agreement (SHA), NCND, NDA and Protection of your Intellectual Property.

Validate Your Idea Before It Fails

I am an idea validation expert. I have validated more than 450 ideas in last 2 years. I am the author of 'Startup Easy' and an active member of the startup eco-system. I can validate your idea and suggest you the necessary changes to make it successful. After the idea validation call you will be able to implement your idea successfully.

Learn to Raise Angel Investment

I can explain you how to raise Angel Investment for your startup. I will analyze your startup and then I will recommend you a perfect strategy to follow. I have raised funds for more than 185 startups in my investment banking career. I can also connect you to the investors all across the world as per your specific needs.

Raise Venture Capital

Learn how to raise Venture Capital for your startup. I have raised Venture Capital for more than 120 companies. I can raise it for you too. You can consult me and understand how you can raise VC funds. I will also connect you with my large network of Angel Investors and VCs all across the World.

Venture capitalists are masters of investment and run the game on what makes a sound business decision and what looks too risky. They’ve built careers off of detailing the key factors necessary to make these decisions, regularly. Therefore you need an expert advise for raising funds from VCs.

I will analyze and appropriately predict the probability of raising funds. Also, get the feedback of your Pitch Deck. We also offer other investment banking and legal and fundraising related services for startups like Term Sheet Drafting, Capitalization Table, Share Holder's Agreement (SHA), Pre-Money Valuation & Post Money Valuation for both Pre-Revenue and Post-Revenue Startups.

You may setup a call at least in one day advance.

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Answers

Shishir Gupta answered

What steps do I need to take to get a small venture capital fund ready to accept funds and start making investments?

Here is the list of documents that you need:
1. Pitch Deck
2. Term Sheet
3. SHA
4. Cap Table
5. NDA

Feel free to setup a call if you wish to understand in detail.

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Venture Capital

Investments

Venture Financing

Shishir Gupta answered

Can a parent company have 2 different online businesses raise funds simultaneously from different investors?

In your case, X will raise funds not abc.com and xyz.com as the portals are under the company X. You may raise funds from two investors, however, you need to:

1. Either, raise in two separate rounds
2. Or, club both the investors in same round

For understanding in detail, fee free to setup a call.

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Venture Funding

Private Equity

Raising capital

Shishir Gupta answered

How important is a responsive website design to rank highly in Google?

A good design is always the key to success. If you site is responsive it will open up nicely in all the platforms like tablet, smartphone, desktop and laptop.

It is not mandatory to have a responsive website to boost your overall rankings, however it is recommended as it will serve the following purpose:
1. There will be more time spent on your site that will boost your rankings.
2. Bounce rate will reduce, that will boost your rankings
3. Google will list it in a better way, that will boost your rankings.
4. It will be visible in proper formats from different platforms that will boost your rankings because more people will open it.
5. Search engines will fetch the links more efficiently, that will boost your rankings.

I hope that helps, for more information feel free to setup a call.

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Responsive Web Design

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Shishir Gupta answered

How do we approach venture capitalists to evaluate our startup reputation model?

You are at the right place. Clarity have many Venture Capitalists and Consultants. I am one of them :)

The best and cheapest way of doing it to find out Venture Capitalists and Consultants who have a low rate per minute. That will save you a lot of time, efforts and money.

If you pay for their time then they will definitely be interested in filling up your form and answering your questions in details.

I have worked with different startups, VCs and Angel Investors. Also, I am one of them, therefore you may setup a call with me and discuss.

I hope that helps.

Thanks for asking.
Shishir

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Venture Capital

Reputation Management

Marketing Strategy

Shishir Gupta answered

I have a good idea for a business, but don't have the funds to start, what should I do?

You should focus upon your core competency,the best team of co-founders should be a combinations of a hacker, a hustler and a hipster. As you are not the hacker (coder) then you should choose between the rest.

The next step would be develop an idea and get it validated through an expert (I can help you). After validating the idea, prepare a presentation and then share it with potential co-founders.

When you have a team in place, then immediately start executing the idea and build traction (I can help you).

After getting traction for your startup, you can easily raise funds and fuel growth.

I can validate the idea, I can help you in finding the team, I can help you building traction and I can also help you in raising funds.

Thanks
Shishir

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Lean startup

Startups

Shishir Gupta answered

What do VCs think of companies that outsource their MVP coding to India?

I have been working with VCs from all across the world since long. Trust me VCs are more concerned about what saves the cost for the startup without reducing the quality? They are not concerned about the work is being done in India or any other part of world as long as you are frugal. VCs invest in the jockey and not the horse, so if you know how to win the race with any horse then you are their first choice.

I can help you in getting your MVP done. Provide me more details.

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Raising Venture Capital

Start-ups

Outsourcing

Shishir Gupta answered

How important is coding knowledge in starting a SAAS business? Should I start by learning code or just get started on the idea? Book suggestions?

You should focus upon your core competency. If you are good at swimming then don't try to climb a tree. For example if a fish try to climb the tree it will fail, similarly if a monkey try to swim it will also fail. Both of them are good in their own fields. In startups we have a simple rule, one builds, one manage and one sells.

All the best.

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SaaS

Project Implementation

Shishir Gupta answered

When is the right time to launch an idea?

There is no right time to launch an idea, every time is the right time. Both the contradicting statements stands true. It is like asking a question which train to board for reaching London from Paris? The trains which starts at 10 am or the train which starts at 11 am?
What would you answer? In fact both the trains would take you to London, however it depends upon the time when you wish to reach there. If you wish to reach early, then start early, if you wish to reach late then start late.

Now don't wait, just go for it, ideas have no value unless executed. I can help you, let's setup a call.

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Business Ideas

Pitching Ideas

Shishir Gupta answered

What options does a pre-launch startup have with big retail partnerships and $250K MRR?

You may develop a deck and startup pitching to the Angel Investors and VCs.

I can help you in building the deck and pitching to the investors. I also offer the service of finding the investors as per the filters of the investors and then pitching them on behalf of my client.

Regards
Shishir

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Retail

eCommerce

Funding

Shishir Gupta answered

Would you present the complete picture to a big investor or segment it and follow smaller more manageable investors?

I have written about it in my book 'Startup Easy'. I would recommend you to use 'Rifle Approach' for finding and pitching the investors.

To be honest, you don't have to manage the investors, they will manage you (or at least try to administer).

I will be happy to discuss over a call.
Thanks

Shishir

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Marketing Strategy

Investor Presentations

Business Model Innovation

Shishir Gupta answered

What are the best practices for breaking into retail networks with private label natural supplement?

Disruption is your answer. You have to make the product disruptive or the product be competitive with disruptive pricing. Some entrepreneurs have this myth that if they convince the potential investors to use their products then they can get the investment, however this is wrong. If you make cigarettes and your investors don't smoke then they will still invest in it, if it sells.

I can help you in making it disrupting, generating traction and hacking growth and then raising funds from the investors. Let' set up a call.

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Online Retail

Channel Partners

Funding

Reviews

I just finished a phone call with Shisher and would recommend him to anyone. He is very professional, highly intelligent, and gave me great advice. Overall great call.

James DiNucci Source: Clarity

calm, cool and collective, great experience on the phone.

Source: Clarity

Awesome call, Shishir shared some excellent suggestions and provided excellent analysis. Thanks Shishir!

Bryan J Source: Clarity

Excellent advice on the content and information we need to provide for our upcoming equity fundraise on Fundable.

Steven Kingsley Source: Clarity

Great talk, and thank you for your advice

Austen Clarke Source: Clarity

Learned a lot and many things became clear! I can definitely recommend Mr. Gupta as a mentor.

Waqar Khan Source: Clarity

Shishir was very helpful. I think we´ll continue working together.

Roberto Gawianski Source: Clarity

Shishir was incredibly helpful in my search for $35 million for our stage 1 lung cancer sensor. He guided me step by step on how to find investors some of which I already had connections to. I guarantee that if you are looking for guidance on a startup he will provide you with valuable and time saving information!

Bill Clark Source: Clarity

GREAT ADVICE!

Jon Nestorovic Source: Clarity

Very thoughtful insights shared . Shishir helps in understanding clear perspectives of what is needed at what time which will surely help in taking right decisions.Thanks.

Supratip Dutta Source: Clarity

Very useful insights, honest opinion and lot of valuable inputs to improve the product.
Thanks Shishir

Sunil Narasimhappa Source: Clarity

Member since October 2015