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The Ultimate Guide To Venture Capital Due Diligence

The Ultimate Guide To Venture Capital Due Diligence

A rigorous due diligence process can help investors avoid predictably bad investments and bring some sense back into decisions that can be highly emotional. This guide is designed to help both founders and investors nail the DD process.

Posted by Jori Karstikko | May 16, 2025
How to Create a Winning Data Room

How to Create a Winning Data Room

With this guide, you’ll be equipped to understand the purpose and importance of a data room, and how to create a winning one for your startup.

Posted by John Ladaga | April 30, 2025
15 ways to scam a founder raising funds

15 ways to scam a founder raising funds

In this post, I'll break down 15 ways founders get scammed when raising funds. Because there are no VC scams, only poorly informed founders.

Posted by Stéphane Nasser | April 26, 2025
How to raise funds with OpenVC

How to raise funds with OpenVC

New on OpenVC? In 5 min, you will know exactly how to use OpenVC to raise funds for your startup. If you have questions, the answer is probably here.

Posted by Stéphane Nasser | April 26, 2025
How to design a winning fundraising strategy

How to design a winning fundraising strategy

Running an tight fundraising process will increase your chances of success while saving you a lot of time and stress. Here's how you can design a winning fundraising strategy for your startup.

Posted by Stéphane Nasser | April 17, 2025
How to build a startup pitch deck

How to build a startup pitch deck

This playbook is my home-made, battle-tested process to prepare the structure, content, and design of a typical early-stage startup pitch deck. These 2 hours of prep work will save you 10x more time down the road, I promise.

Posted by Stéphane Nasser | March 15, 2025
How to value a startup: 9 best methods for 2025

How to value a startup: 9 best methods for 2025

This guide will answer your questions about startup valuation. Learn how to determine a valuation that makes sense for you and your future investors, including a step-by-step method and 16 valuation benchmarks.

Posted by Stéphane Nasser | March 12, 2025
The best startup pitch deck ever built

The best startup pitch deck ever built

What does the perfect pitch deck look like? Well, we built it. We took the absolute best slides, we put the together, and we created a deck that no investor could pass - ever.

Posted by Stéphane Nasser | February 22, 2025