Investor Readiness Assessment by The Startup Station

Find out if you are ready for fundraising!

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* 1. Please provide your name and email address

Name

Email address

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* 2. Do you have a one-pager?

Yes

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* 3. If yes, does your one-pager reflect?

Overview

Product

Value Proposition

Business Model

Traction

Team

Amount of capital to be raised and use of funds

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* 4. Do you have a pitch deck?

Yes

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* 5. If yes, does your pitch deck reflect?

Problem: Can the investors understand it? Is it addressing a big enough need?

Solution: Is it transformational?

Competitive analysis - how do you compare with competition? Explanation of what prevents entrenched players from doing it.

Market size: Is it a multi-billion $ market?

Team: Did you provide short bios, previous exits? Is your Team coachable?

Product development timeline - is the product ready?

Traction and go-to market strategy: Have you validated product-market fit?

Traction and go-to market strategy: Do you have traction?

Traction and go-to market strategy: Do you have a clear go-to-market strategy (near term and long-term)? Do you know your customer acquisition costs and sales process/sales cycle?

Business model with unit economics: Do you know all your revenue streams?

Business model with unit economics: Do the financials make sense?

Business model with unit economics: Do you know your margins and burn rate?

Business model with unit economics: Did you specify how much money you need and use of funds?

Business model with unit economics: Can you break-even within 18-24 months?

Scale: Is the solution easily scalable?

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* 6. Do you have a strong Board of Advisors?

Yes

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* 7. Do you have a 3-5Y proforma financial forecast?

Yes

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* 8. If yes to # 7, does your financial model include:

All revenue streams incorporating the timing of their launch

Go to market strategy for each revenue stream

Fixed and variable costs

Working capital and fixed assets

Income statement, Balance sheet, Cash flow statement

Valuation based on one of the quantitative valuation models for early-stage startups

Use of funds

Financial summary: KPIs (growth rates, margins, burn rate)

Financial summary: Unit economics

Financial summary: Customer acquisition costs

Financial summary: Customer lifetime value

Assumptions (business drivers) to run scenario analysis

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* 9. Do you have a lean cap table?

Yes

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* 10. Do you a sound legal foundation?

Is your company incorporated?

Do you have operating/shareholder agreements signed with all the equity holders?

Do you have employment agreements with all the key personnel?

Does your company have all the IP assigned to the corporate entity?

Do you have confidentiality agreements signed with all the key personnel and advisors?