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Alto pitch deck to raise seed capital investment

This is the ScriptDash, now called Alto, pitch deck to raise their seed round in 2015.

About Alto

Alto is a digital pharmacy company that offers doctors and clinics an easier back-end system to fill those prescriptions. Its platform helps doctors and pharmacies coordinate and communicate to each other easily.

Alto so far has delivered more than 100,000 prescriptions to 12,000 patients living in…

Revolut pitch deck to raise seed capital investment

This is the Revolut pitch deck used to raise a £1.5m seed round of funding.

About Revolut

Revolut is a digital banking alternative that includes a pre-paid debit card, currency exchange, and peer-to-peer payments. It is on a mission to build a fair and frictionless platform to use and manage money around the world. It has developed a platform allowing users to transfer, exchange, and spend money…

Decipher key top line SaaS terms like bookings, billings and revenue

Tl;dr: We are going to cover key SaaS terms like booking, billings, and revenue so you don’t have to pretend to understand them. As usual, I’ve also built an excel model to have a play with.

You probably understand some SaaS terms, but I bet you don’t really understand them all, let alone how to calculate them.

Don’t be bashful. You know it’s true. I wrote about the importance of asking dumb…

Angel investing guide to startup investing

Tl;dr: A guide to the fundamentals of how to think about investing in startups at angel stage. This is useful both to early stage investors for how to critically evaluate startups, and for startup founders to understand what is (or should be!) important to investors when thinking about pitching them for funding and evaluating their own business model. I teach founders to evaluate their business…

2018 SaaS survey results. Check out all these metrics

Tl;dr: An in-depth analysis of SaaS stats derived from a survey of 385 SaaS companies. Understand ACV, distribution channels, churn rates, efficiency ratios and efficacy of marketing. We go through about 50 slides and I share my thoughts on each of them

KBCM Technology Group undertook their 7th mega annual survey of ~385 private SaaS companies. I’m sharing the report here (only deleted a few…

This is the Soundwave pitch deck used to raise $1m seed round of funding. They were acquired by Spotify.

About Soundwave

Soundwave was founded by Brendan O’Driscoll, Aidan Sliney and Craig Watson in 2012, and was acquired by Spotify in January 2016.

Backed by Mark Cuban and ACT Venture Capital, Soundwave is a mobile music-discovery co. Soundwave tracks what songs people are listening to on their…

10 lessons from superheroes on being a startup hero

Tl;dr: 10 learnings from superheroes to be a startup hero yourself like never give up, get the job done, be the best and be clear on your purpose.

Want a super huge exit? Don’t act like you don’t. I know you do.

Well, you will need to do superhuman things to achieve such an accomplishment. Why not hire superheroes and treat them as such then?

Jason Nazar, Co-Founder and CEO of Docstoc loves comic…

Sole founders are bad. You can’t build a billion dollar despicable me startup

TL;DR: Sole founders face an uphill battle compared to co-founding teams. And if you are a sole founder, you still need a team; minions aren’t enough.

Everyone has seen Despicable Me. A hilarious movie with everyone’s favorite yellow, one-eyed minions. I love those babbling, cheeky monkies! The organizational design of Evil Inc. is extremely flat; Gru who is then surrounded by an army of little…

The three key things you need to know to build a great startup

Tl;dr: The three things that matter for a startup is CAC, LTV and Payback time. Nothing matters if these things don’t work.

What’s a great startup? It’s one that makes money. You like to get featured in TechCrunch, you want to make money.

I’ve been studying startup for ten years and I’ve figured out that there are only three things that matter when figuring out if a startup is viable. I’m going…

Before they were famous. 15 startup pivot to fame. 8 Youtube

Welcome to before they were famous, 15 startup pivots to fame.

Startup isn’t clean. There is no master plan, but if you hustle like a beast and really pay attention to customers, you can figure out a way. These 15 startups are an inspiration for you and proof you can do it too.

We have 8 videos in this series. You can check them all out here:

1 Android and Flickr 2 Groupon and Instagram 3 Nokia…

Before they were famous. 15 startup pivot to fame. 7 Woot and Yelp

Welcome to before they were famous, 15 startup pivots to fame.

Startup isn’t clean. There is no master plan, but if you hustle like a beast and really pay attention to customers, you can figure out a way. These 15 startups are an inspiration for you and proof you can do it too.

We have 8 videos in this series. You can check them all out here:

1 Android and Flickr 2 Groupon and Instagram 3 Nokia…

Before they were famous. 15 startup pivot to fame. 6 twitter and turntable

Welcome to before they were famous, 15 startup pivots to fame.

Startup isn’t clean. There is no master plan, but if you hustle like a beast and really pay attention to customers, you can figure out a way. These 15 startups are an inspiration for you and proof you can do it too.

We have 8 videos in this series. You can check them all out here:

1 Android and Flickr 2 Groupon and Instagram 3 Nokia…

Before they were famous. 15 startup pivot to fame. 5 Shopify and Slack

Welcome to before they were famous, 15 startup pivots to fame.

Startup isn’t clean. There is no master plan, but if you hustle like a beast and really pay attention to customers, you can figure out a way. These 15 startups are an inspiration for you and proof you can do it too.

We have 8 videos in this series. You can check them all out here:

1 Android and Flickr 2 Groupon and Instagram 3 Nokia…

Before they were famous. 15 startup pivot to fame. 4 Pinterest and Rovio

Welcome to before they were famous, 15 startup pivots to fame.

Startup isn’t clean. There is no master plan, but if you hustle like a beast and really pay attention to customers, you can figure out a way. These 15 startups are an inspiration for you and proof you can do it too.

We have 8 videos in this series. You can check them all out here:

1 Android and Flickr 2 Groupon and Instagram 3 Nokia…

Before they were famous. 15 startup pivot to fame. 3 Nokia and PayPal

Welcome to before they were famous, 15 startup pivots to fame.

Startup isn’t clean. There is no master plan, but if you hustle like a beast and really pay attention to customers, you can figure out a way. These 15 startups are an inspiration for you and proof you can do it too.

We have 8 videos in this series. You can check them all out here:

1 Android and Flickr 2 Groupon and Instagram 3 Nokia…

Before they were famous. 15 startup pivot to fame. 2 Groupon and Instagram

Welcome to before they were famous, 15 startup pivots to fame.

Startup isn’t clean. There is no master plan, but if you hustle like a beast and really pay attention to customers, you can figure out a way. These 15 startups are an inspiration for you and proof you can do it too.

We have 8 videos in this series. You can check them all out here:

1 Android and Flickr 2 Groupon and Instagram 3 Nokia…

Before they were famous. 15 startup pivot to fame. 1 Android and Flickr

Welcome to before they were famous, 15 startup pivots to fame.

Startup isn’t clean. There is no master plan

We have 8 videos in this series. You can check them all out here:

1 Android and Flickr 2 Groupon and Instagram 3 Nokia and PayPal 4 Pinterest and Rovio 5 Shopify and Slack 6 twitter and turntable 7 Woot and Yelp 8 Youtube

Key learnings:

Android: Understand the size of the prize of market…