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Menashy: Founders over-prepare pitch decks and under-prepare for VC Q&A
“I mean, honestly, I think a lot of founders make the mistake of thinking that they need to come up with a really big formal pitch. They need to fill an hour. They produce a big IM you know, and they kind of over prepare on the documentation and the format and …”
Menashy: Startups commonly need multiple Series A or bridge rounds
“Normally we see companies, frankly, they do a couple of series A rounds, or they do you know, a bridge, something like that, because it's taking longer for those companies then to get to series B.”
Menashy: VCs use pitch questions to test founder thinking and data
“I think the reality is that a VC is testing you. They're testing your thinking. They're testing you know, really is the business model going to work? Really is the market as big as we all think it is? And is that really addressable? And you need to know the an…”
Menashy: Founders should prepare 15-minute pitches for hour-long VC meetings
“I would much rather that a founder comes in with 15, 20 minute presentation prepared, which probably takes half an hour because, you know, I'll ask some questions and we'll, we'll have a nice chat around a few things. And then we have lots of time to delve int…”