Investor Connect Podcast

In this episode, Hall welcomes Gary Trauner, Executive Director of Silicon Couloir.

Silicon Couloir, based in Jackson, Wyoming, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that strives to be the hub connecting local entrepreneurs to all resources needed to succeed.

Gary is an accomplished senior-level leader with extensive financial, operational and managerial experience across a wide array of industries. He has over 25 years’ experience in startup, growth, and mature organizations, both public and private. He grew up in New York but has lived in Jackson Hole, Wyoming for the past 30 years.

Gary is excited about the people who are working in startups and growth companies and gives his advice to both groups.


Visit Silicon Couloir at www.Siliconcouloir.com

Gary can be reached via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/garytrauner/  and via email at gary@siliconcouloir.com.

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Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing.

So how do VCs make a decision to invest?

Venture Capital investors make investment decisions as a group. As an associate, partner, or otherwise, you must convince the team to move forward with it.  

Even if you could make the decision alone you want buy in and support from the others as you’ll need their support to help make the company successful.

After the initial pitch to a VC investor, the startup meets the rest of the investment team and pitches the entire group.

The team decides together to pursue diligence.

With the diligence results, the team again comes together to make a go/no go decision.

The advocate for the startup makes the case for moving forward with the investment.  

It’s best to arm your advocate with enough information to make your case. 

The startup should also remember that the advocate is taking a reputation risk as well as a financial risk on the startup and that’s never an easy thing to do. 

 

Thank you for joining us for the Startup Funding Espresso where we help startups and investors connect for funding.

Let’s go startup something today.
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Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing.

In pitching you can position your startup in more than one way. 

You could pitch for the sector it is in -- such as Edtech.

Many investors focus on a sector.

In this case you talk about the metrics that investors look for in tech companies, such as CAC LTV ratios.

You could also pitch your startup as an impact deal. 

Many investors have impact investing as a part of their investment thesis and could engage with your deal on that level alone. 

In this case you talk about your impact metrics, such as how many students graduated, how many students' scores improved, etc.

You could also position your deal based on the monetization such as recurring revenue.

There are many investors looking for SaaS businesses regardless of the sector.

In this case you talk about your ARR or MRR numbers and growth rate.

In most cases the pitch deck is the same but what you emphasize changes to fit the audience.


Thank you for joining us for the Startup Funding Espresso where we help startups and investors connect for funding.

Let’s go startup something today.
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Check out our other podcasts here: https://investorconnect.org/
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For Startups check out: https://tencapital.group/company-landing/
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For upcoming Events, check out https://tencapital.group/events/

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