Investor Connect Podcast

Roadmap Investing

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

In funding startups, it’s important to look at not just the current product, but the roadmap overall.

Some technology markets have a long, rich future ahead while other markets do not.

Look for the technologies that have a broad future with a clear trajectory.

Startups propose products to take to market. 

While that first product may be a winner, the succession of products will most likely be the bigger story.

Ask for the startup’s roadmap. Be careful not to take away their focus from the current product.

For example, many startups propose a service.

Some capture the data from their service and start building large datasets.

With a sufficient number of datasets, they can then sell the data.

By moving from a service company to a data company, their value goes up by 10X.

With sufficient experience with the data, the company can build artificial intelligence algorithms.

By moving from a data company to an AI company, their value goes up by another 10X.

Consider the roadmap of the market and the company in your investment decisions.


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On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Jeff Erickson, Founder of The Startup Stack, Angel Investor, and Director of Partnerships at Forecastr.

Headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2020, The Startup Stack was created to help early-stage companies build a successful foundation by making the best operational tech offers available in one place. The Startup Stack scours the SaaS ecosystem to uncover the best tools to help founders scale and succeed. Each member of The Startup Stack is carefully vetted for both the quality of their product and the startup offering they provide.

The Startup Stack currently offers early-stage founders over $170,000 worth of perks on operational tech tools to help their businesses grow.

Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, and founded in 2018, Forecastr provides a software platform to help early-stage startups easily create, track and manage their financial projections in preparation for raising capital. Using Forecastr, founders are able to confidently forecast their cash flow, helping determine how much capital they should raise and when. Forecastr makes it easy to conduct, manage and modify financial forecasts all with the click of a button and gives founders confidence when talking with investors without having to incur the deep financial cost of a CFO.

Jeff currently serves on the advisory boards of several startup companies and is an active angel investor. Jeff is an experienced entrepreneur and was the founder and CEO of a successful consumer goods company that was ranked #138 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing companies. He is passionate about startups and enjoys working with founders and mentoring entrepreneurs.

Jeff speaks about the state of startup investing, how he sees the industry evolving from here, and the biggest change he thinks we will see. He also advises investors and entrepreneurs.

You can visit The Startup Stack at www.mystartupstack.com, and on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/the-startup-stack.   

You can visit Forecastr at www.forecastr.co, on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/forecastr, and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/forecastr

Jeff can be contacted at jeff@forecastr.co, and on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-erickson

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